Legislation initiated by far-right Otzma Yehudit party drew mounting criticism from opponents and rights groups as it moved through the Knesset

Israel’s parliament has advanced a contentious bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of terrorism to its final vote, after the Knesset’s national security committee approved the measure on Tuesday.

The legislation, initiated by the far-right Otzma Yehudit party led by the national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has drawn sharp criticism from opponents who warn it would mark a significant escalation in Israel’s penal policy. Members of Otzma Yehudit have worn noose-shaped pins in support of the bill.

  • ninjabard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    For a group of people who suffered unfathomable atrocities at the hands of the Nazis, they sure are committing a lot of unfathomable atrocities like the Nazis.

      • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Right? I mean the movement came around the same time with the same ideas, like eugenics and the concepts of supreme races, etc. They’re just the Jewish version of Naziism.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        None of the first influential Zionists were Jewish.

        But also, the Stern Gang, otherwise known as Lehi, the second leader of which was Netanyahu’s political mentor.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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      9 days ago

      That’s the image they like to project (the first half, anyway), but Israel traces surprisingly little of its descent to Holocaust survivors. Most of its Jewish inhabitants are either Middle Eastern or East European (neither group immigrated to Israel en masse during the Holocaust), and its founders were all already in Israel by 1939.