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Israel’s Ben-Gvir Posts Gallows Video as Death Penalty Law Takes Effect

Israel’s BuildsBen-Gvir Posts Gallows Video as Death Penalty Law Takes Effect

Israel’s Ben-Gvir Posts Gallows Video as Death Penalty Law Takes Effect
Above: **Watermarked Getty Image. Kindly Replace** Demonstrators hang a photograph of Ben-Gvir during a commemorative march, marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, in Amsterdam on May 16, 2026. Image credit: Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu/Getty Images

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Israel'sA newminister deathpreening penaltybeside lawgallows built exclusively for Palestinians is obscenity staged as spectacle—propaganda for extermination. Worse still is the law behind it: a Jim Crow lynching lawstatute engineered built to executehang Palestinians while shielding Israelis who commit identical crimes. BaruchThis Goldsteinis slaughterednot 29justice Palestiniansor and still wouldncounterterrorism—it'ts qualifyapartheid undertwisted thisinto lawrope, yetand aimpunity Palestinianwritten whointo resists a settler raid could hangstatute. This is state-sanctioned ethnic extermination dressed up as counterterrorism.

Executing convicted terrorist murderers isn'tis cruelty — it's the only punishment that guarantees they never kill again. Yahya Sinwar got a life sentence, ran terrorist operations from inside prison and masterminded OctoberOct. 7 after being released. Deterrence aside, execution permanently ends recidivism, and roughly 80% of convicted murderers released in prisoner swaps returned to terrorism.


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There is a 25% chance that Benjamin Netanyahu will cease to be Prime Minister of Israel during 2026, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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