Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 31.03.2026
Yesterday the pigsty passed a law of execution of Palestinian fighters. It approves the death penalty for Palestinian freedom fighters’ bill; Netanyahu voted in favor. The final, third readings will be on Monday evening. The bill passed with 62 war criminals in favor, 48 against, and one abstained. The bill passed its first reading in November 2025.
The bill was sponsored by the Kanist’ far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit Party. Ben-Gvir has pushed for this bill since the start of his tenure as national security minister.
After the bill was approved, Ben-Gvir celebrated saying, “Today, the State of Israel changes the rules of the game: anyone who murders Jews will no longer breathe freely or enjoy prison privileges.”
The updated outline of the bill proposes that executions for Palestinians would be carried out by hanging, implemented by the Israel Prison Service. At the same time the Jewish terrorists in the West Bank will be sent to special psychological treatment which is like the idea that Hitler should have been sent to a school teaching polite behavior.
Ben Gevri’s initial bill was an automatic sentence of execution of freedom fighters. The revised version stipulates that if the Palestinian is brought to trial in Israel a judge would decide between capital punishment and life in prison. Freedom fighters from the West Bank would still get the automatic death but have the right to appeal.
While Liberman voted for the Bill Lapid voted against it and a strong opposition to the bill has come from MK of the Arab parties in the Knesset. MK Gilad Kariv (The Democrats), a leading opponent of the bill, said: “This is an immoral law, neither Jewish nor democratic, and also not effective from a security perspective.”.
Shas Party stated on Monday that it would vote in favor of the death penalty bill at the directive of the Council of Torah Sages. Representatives from several Jewish human rights organizations have attended multiple committee discussions, voicing opposition to the bill on ethical grounds.
“There has been international condemnation of the bill. On Sunday, the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Italy, and the UK urged Israeli lawmakers to discard the bill. The European ministers said it had a “de facto discriminatory character” and risked “undermining Israel’s commitments to democratic principles.”
Additionally, last week, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty released a statement authored by a number of NGOs that slammed the proposed death penalty as “discriminatory” against Palestinians. It further said that, because West Bank Palestinians, as opposed to Israelis, are the only ones tried in military courts, the bill would prejudicially target them. The ISL protests this racist criminal law.
This is the time to struggle for a revolutionary Constitutional Assembly that includes the Palestinian refugees.
Even if Bennet will have a real chance to replace Netanyahu, we will vote with critical support for Hadash only on the condition that they will promise not to lend support from within or outside for any Zionist government.
For Palestine red, and free from the river to the sea!