The gallows of occupation: Law as execution in Israel’s apartheid state

The recent enactment of capital punishment legislation by the Knesset is not a mere domestic legal development. It is an act that demands examination under the most serious categories of international law. When a state creates a legal pathway to execute a specific, occupied population through a system structurally incapable of delivering justice, it does not simply violate rights—it enters the domain of prosecutable international crime. The law’s intent is thinly veiled, and its effect unmistaka...