New death penalty law shows how Israel targets Palestinians with highly discriminatory legal system

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : For example, the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law (Family Unification Ban), enacted in 2003 and repeatedly renewed, is cited by all three experts as a cornerstone of demographic engineering.
54% : The passage of Israel's new death penalty law on March 31 has thrust the country's legal system into the international spotlight.
51% : But the new death penalty law marks "another stage in the deep dehumanisation of Palestinians" that has enabled years of oppression, dispossession, and discrimination through the Israeli judicial system, he says.
47% : "(Israel has) a variety of laws that institutionalise preference for its Jewish citizens both within the 1948 borders and, of course, under the military regime in the (occupied) West Bank," he tells TRT World.
46% : Nasir Qadri, an international law practitioner and critical legal scholar at Koc University in Istanbul, tells TRT World that Israel runs two different legal frameworks for Palestinians.
46% : Dvir explains that Israeli law allows any Jew, even if they have never lived in this part of the world, to immigrate to Israel and receive citizenship.
44% : Experts say the new legislation is not an outlier, but the extension of a broader body of laws designed to ensure unequal rights and protections in Israel along racial and ethnic lines, especially targeting Palestinians. Yair Dvir, a spokesperson for B'Tselem, the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, calls the new death penalty law a "horrific example of the depths of apartheid" that constitutes a "direct violation" of the right to life.
41% : A pattern of discriminatory laws Mehmet Rakipoglu, a Middle East expert and associate professor at Mardin Artuklu University in Ankara, calls the new law a "part of a broader punitive turn" unfolding in Israel.
38% : Unanimously criticised by human rights advocates from around the world, the law imposes the death penalty as a default sentence on Palestinians convicted of "terrorism" by the Israeli military courts.
38% : Israel pushed through the law amid the haze of the Iran war and its continued killing of Palestinians in Gaza despite a tenuous ceasefire following two years of constant genocidal bombings.
35% : The other exists within Israel's civilian courts that targets acts committed with the "intent to negate the existence of the state of Israel".

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