"Israel’s chilling new death penalty is as racist as it is abhorrent

Israel’s new 90-day capital sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorism is the kind of targeted execution we in the Jewish community have seen before, says Eric Lewis

Sunday 19 April 2026 14:55 BST

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"Right-wing extremist national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir invoked the United States as a model, asserting that the bill was modelled on the “correct and just” US model for the death penalty. And, of course, the Trump administration quickly seconded that sentiment, with the state department issuing a statement that it “trust[ed]” there would be “fair trial[s]” and that Israel had a “sovereign right” to determine laws and penalties applying to terrorism.

Ben-Gvir is flatly wrong. The United States death penalty process, whatever its flaws, prohibits the automatic imposition of the death penalty and requires consideration of mitigating circumstances and consideration of proportionality. And no death sentence could ever be carried out in 90 days, allowing an appeals process that permits consideration of whether the death penalty was properly imposed."

independent.co.uk/voices/israe…

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