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With a smile on his face and a bottle of champagne in his hand, Israel’s hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrated on the Knesset floor Monday the passing of the new Israeli death penalty law targeting Palestinian detainees. First introduced as a bill by Ben-Gvir’s own Jewish Power party in November of last year, the law underwent its second and third readings in the Israeli parliamentary body earlier this week, passing with a majority of 62 to 47 votes. The objective of the law? To seek the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of acts that led to the death of Jewish Israelis.

The bill first sparked controversy when introduced over four months ago due to its explicitly discriminatory wording, which at the time was phrased as targeting individuals convicted of killing Israelis on “nationalistic or racist” grounds, and with the intent of “harming the state of Israel or the rebirth of the Jewish people.” Since then, Israeli lawmakers have sought to mitigate the controversy by tweaking the bill’s wording.

The final version that was passed into law targeted those convicted of actions that led to the death of Israelis, with the intent of “ending Israel’s existence.”.............more...........