Israel’s Far-Right Security Minister Wore A Noose Pin To Promote A Law To Execute Palestinian Prisoners
Israel's far-right party have proposed a bill that would apply the death penalty only to Palestinians, but not Israelis, under "nationalistic" grounds.
Israeli far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and lawmakers from his far-right party wore noose-shaped pins to a parliament meeting discussing a bill that calls for Palestinian detainees to be executed.
The proposed bill would apply the death penalty only to Palestinians, but not Israelis, who are accused of killing Israelis on so-called “nationalistic” grounds.
It has already been discussed and approved in preliminary readings but is awaiting a full Knesset vote to be enacted into law.
The bill passed the first vote on Nov. 10, with 39 in favor and 16 against, out of 120 lawmakers.
Ben-Gvir and his party Otzma Yehudit wore the noose-shaped pins to a Knesset discussion on the bill on Monday, Dec. 8, saying that it is a symbol of their commitment to passing the law and a clear message that “terrorists deserve to die.”
During the hearing, Ben-Gvir said that the noose is just “one of the options for how we’re going to implement this law.”
“One option is the electric chair, there’s also lethal injection and there’s the option of hanging. There are all kinds of options,” he said, adding that he received calls from more than 100 doctors telling him, “Ben Gvir, just give us the word, and we will come and enforce this incredibly important law.”
The leader of the left-wing Hadash party Ayman Odeh said the noose pins are a symbol of “racism and violence” and filed a complaint to the Knesset Ethics Committee.
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid said later the pin was damaging Israel’s already battered global reputation, and the Democrats party chief Yair Golan said “it is no longer fighting terrorism; it’s rehearsing dictatorship , the Times of Israel reported.
Ben Gvir also bragged during the meeting about the harsh conditions Palestinians face in Israeli prisons on his watch.
“This morning, I saw that it was published that under Itamar Ben Gvir, 110 terrorists have died. They said there has never been anything like this since the state’s founding,” he said.
Rights groups called the bill a legislative entrenchment of systematic repression and a violation of international law, which generally prohibits the death penalty.
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