In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 laws curtailing Palestinians’ rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows.
Can’t hurt to quote a bit more:
— joining Adalah’s existing list of now more than 100 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens.
One of the report’s central findings is a sweeping assault on freedom of expression, thought, and protest across a wide array of arenas. It includes laws prohibiting the publication of content that includes “denial of the events of October 7,” as determined by the Knesset, and restricting broadcasts of critical media outlets that “harm state security.”
Another authorizes the Education Ministry to fire teaching staff and withdraw funding from educational institutions based on views it considers expression of support for, or incitement to, a terrorist act or organization. And alongside a state-led campaign to deport international solidarity activists, a third law bars foreign nationals from entering the country if they have made statements critical of Israel, or have appealed to international courts to take action against the state and its officials.
But perhaps the most dangerous bill is one that targets citizens who merely seek to consume information from sources the state doesn’t like. Just a month after October 7, the Knesset passed a two-year temporary order — renewed last week for another two years — that outlaws the “systematic and continuous consumption of publications of a terrorist organization,” carrying a one-year prison sentence. In other words, the legislature now criminalizes conduct that takes place entirely within a person’s private space.
All happening silently while the public is busy wrapping their heads around more overt government activity. Sound familiar?
“Morality? Huh? Why bother, just make the immoral legal!” - Western civ circa forever
It’s very much a matter of degrees and there’s no doubt that Israel is much higher on the immorality scale, compared to most other (“civilised Western” or not) countries.
Also, as a monotheist - presumably of one of the larger denominations - you are throwing stones in a glasshouse here.
Do you think I condone horrible things done “in the name of God”? As if God asked us to just be horrible to each other, lol. Those are them, this is me, as long as I don’t follow or cosign it, I’m clean. And so is any Westerner that denounces these things the way I just did. 👍
Do you think I condone horrible things done “in the name of God”? As if God asked us to just be horrible to each other, lol.
What about the bibble?
It’s a collection of books, at least half if not more of them clearly state their author,(and none of them say “this is God, btw”), and the foundation of many faiths, what about it? It’s a pretty cool collection!
