Emma Graham-Harrison

So with these two laws, we've seen Israel firstly overturn its own longstanding position really of being against capital punishment, of reserving it essentially for this one criminal who was responsible

for, you know, what Israeli lawyers have called a sort of historic injustice, you know, the Holocaust.

And then also in applying it in a racist way, because, you know, the tribunals for October 7th, those atrocities were carried out by Palestinians from Gaza.

So that's only going to be Palestinians on trial.

And then with the law that was passed in March,

in a sort of, you could say, legislatively racist way, you have a death penalty, which essentially only applies to Palestinians because it's for deadly terrorist attacks, but only when the perpetrator is considered to have an intent to deny the existence of the state of Israel.

There's almost a mirror image, right?

So what you see is a government that's bringing in the death penalty for Palestinians.

And for Israelis who kill Palestinians, effectively total impunity.

There has not been an Israeli indicted for killing a Palestinian civilian in the Occupy West Bank this decade.

The last death of a Palestinian civilian that led to an Israeli being indicted was in 2019.

Wow.

Since then, we've had, according to UN figures,

Over 1,500 Palestinians have been killed.

And, you know, that includes shootings that have been captured on camera.

You know, in one case, one of the victims videoed his own murder.

There's been not a single indictment.

Some people have been arrested, but then they're either released again or the case hasn't proceeded to charges.

So, you know, what message does that send?

Being arrested, but then never charged?