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UN anti-racism committee urges Israel to repeal new death penalty law
The law marks Israel's first expansion of capital punishment in decades and reframes a long-standing legal posture toward Palestinians convicted of attacks.
1962
year of Israel's de facto execution moratorium now ended
The facts · bedrock
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination called on Israel to repeal recently passed legislation introducing the death penalty for certain attacks. The committee said the law ends a de facto moratorium on executions in place since 1962 and expands capital punishment in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. It noted that the statute applies to those convicted of deliberate killing committed with the intent of denying the existence of the State of Israel. The committee urged Israeli authorities to scrap the measure and end policies it described as discriminatory toward Palestinians.
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How it's being framed
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Discriminatory-law frame
"A statute written so narrowly that it can only fall on Palestinians is not a security measure but a codification of unequal justice, reversing decades of Israeli restraint on executions and entrenching a two-tier legal order."
International-human-rights frame
"A UN treaty body has formally judged Israel's new death penalty law as a backslide against global human rights norms, and is calling on the state to repeal it and dismantle the broader policies that produce racial segregation."