Israel's Death Penalty Shame

Israel's death penalty shame

Shortly after midnight on 1 June 1962, Adolf Eichmann was hanged in an Israeli prison. Only a small number of people were present: several officials, four journalists, and a clergyman. Convicted six months earlier, on 15 counts ranging from war crimes to crimes against humanity, he was found to have wholeheartedly believed in the Nazi cause, and to have served as a key perpetrator of the Holocaust. After the execution, Eichmann’s body was cremate

Israel’s New Death Penalty Law Is a Warning

By Talia SassonThe Israeli Parliament, the Knesset, last week passed a law allowing the hanging of Palestinians convicted of killings during militant attacks, using language that effectively exempts Jewish perpetrators of nationalistic violence. This legislation is both unconstitutional and discriminatory. Beyond its fundamental immorality, the law is part of a larger, accelerating effort to systematically end once and for all the possibility of…

Israel becomes Nazi Germany’s genocidal successor – The Collegian

The Israeli legislature recently passed a bill that supports the death penalty — but only for Palestinians. Israel has become the first state since Nazi Germany to approve of the death penalty for just one race. The internationally controversial bill, which was passed on March 30, mandates that execution becomes the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of deadly terror attacks; however, Israelis charged with the same cr…