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What levels of normalised violence has Zionism reached, if plans to annihilate Palestinians are not just bordering on, but fall right into the realm of, the horror genre? The more absurd, and the further away, Israel positions itself from the concept of human rights, the more the statements and actions proposed by Israeli ministers fail to raise any serious questioning within the international community. The Knesset already passed the first reading of a bill imposing the death penalty on Palestinians in November last year. Specifically, the text excludes Israelis from the death penalty, as it partly reads that it would apply to individuals “with the aim of harming the state of Israel and the revival of the Jewish people in […]
