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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
Israel’s Knesset passed a bill on Monday mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of deadly acts of terrorism. The bill stipulates that the death penalty will be imposed on a terrorist who killed a person “with the intent to deny the existence of the State of Israel.”
In doing so, the bill’s wording creates a distinction designating it almost exclusively for Palestinian terror, while the ideological burden of proof it sets is expected to make its application to Jewish nationalist terror nearly impossible.
Sixty-two lawmakers voted in favor of the contentious bill, including several opposition members; 48 voted against it, and one abstained.



Terrorism is something you do, not something you are. A terrorist is not a kind of person, its a person who’s done terrorism.
It’s amazing how many people deny this just because the terrorism was in service of a cause they support.
In Israel, terrorist is a race of people.
Also, in many cases, a citizen.