4 April 2026

Israel is to the 21st Century what Nazi Germany was to the 20th Century – The Death Penalty Law for Palestinians is Just One More Sign of Zionism’s Sickness

From Ethnic Cleansing to Genocide, Apartheid to Extermination, Child Killing to Starvation, Torture & Rape, There is No War Crime Israel Doesn’t Excel In 



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Though one should note that the only complaint of Adam Langleben of the Jewish Labour Movement is the offence given to the Jewish religion. He has nothing to say about the Death Penalty for Palestinians legislation itself.

Even hardened Zionists and Genocide supporters have become uncomfortable at the pictures of Itamar Ben-Gvir and fellow Judeo-Nazis celebrating the passage of a law that reserves the death penalty for Palestinians whilst Jewish murderers are immune from even the mildest reprimand.


Under Labour Zionist governments only one law explicitly discriminated again Israel’s Palestinians – the Law of Return. All subsequent discrimination built upon that one law. Discrimination was indirect. Today the far-right is more explicit and also more honest.

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So we should thank Israel’s Judeo-Nazi Police Minister for making explicit that which was implicit. As the Times of Israel said

The law effectively enshrines capital punishment for Palestinians alone, as it explicitly excludes Israeli citizens or residents, and only Palestinians are tried in military courts. Israelis are tried in civilian courts.


Knesset Members voted 62-47 to mandate death by hanging as the punishment for Palestinians convicted of ‘terrorist’ acts by military courts. Judges can opt for life imprisonment under “special circumstances” which are undefined but otherwise the death penalty is mandatory and will be carried out within 90 days of sentencing without appeal.

Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beteinu, a secular far-right party that is not part of the government, voted in favour of the bill. The Ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism, which is part of the government was split. Its Degel HaTorah (Lithuanian non-Hasidic) faction voted in favour wheres its Agudat Yisrael (Hasidic) faction voted against.

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Unlike Israeli settlers who are tried in civilian courts Palestinians are tried in military courts where there is a 99.74% rate of conviction. Confessions under torture are admissible. Even the Nazi Peoples’ Courts had a higher rate of acquittal. In 1940 it was 7.3%, falling to around 5% until 1944, when it rose to almost 12% They were set up by Hitler to bypass the ordinary court system to try political offences.

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So we have a situation whereby even the Nazis treated its accused more fairly than Israel’s rubber stamp military courts.

West European countries issued a pro forma statement condemning the passage of the law, whilst doing nothing to countermand it such as sanctions. The Trump Administration didn’t even do that. Instead the State Department issued a statement saying that:


The United States respects Israel’s sovereign right to determine its own laws and penalties for individuals convicted of terrorism.” 

The Death Penalty Law for Palestinians reflects the fact that Jewish terrorism is not a crime in the eyes of the Israeli police and army which are often complicit in the attacks.

Burnt out Palestinian home after a settler attack

Mua’yyad Sha’ban of the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) stated that settlers had carried out 192 attacks in the first two weeks of March, resulting in the murder of 6 Palestinians. This is in addition to the murder of Palestinians by the military. However no settler or soldier has been punished for killing a Palestinian since 2020.

Israeli soldier throws bike into trash bin

In other words settlers have a license to kill Palestinians but if Palestinians strike back then they will be hanged as ‘terrorists’ and the US administration will support it.

This is not so different from Nazi Germany and before that Czarist Russia where authorities only intervened if Jews defended themselves. What happened to the Jews in Europe is now taking place in Greater Israel to the Palestinians. As Primo Levy was reputed to have remarked, the Palestinians are the Jews of Israel.

Settler attack in Tayasir 30 3 26

Israel has had a policy of extra judicial executions for the years. The law that has just been enacted will simply put what Israel has already been doing on a ‘legal’ footing. As the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights observed:

Extra-judicial execution is a policy which is not new or exclusively used since 2000. It is an old, bloody policy that had been implemented by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians for decades.

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Adalah, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, wrote that:

Politicians and senior police officers have also openly called for the extra-judicial killing of suspects, and have urged civilians to carry guns in statements that effectively endorse the extra-judicial execution of Palestinians. 

It quoted Jerusalem District Police Commander Moshe Edri as saying:

Anyone who stabs Jews or hurts innocent people is due to be killed.

Note that the Police Commander was not concerned about anyone stabbing non-Jews.

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There are those who decry the comparison between Israel and Nazi Germany yet the similarities are striking. The level of racism against Palestinians in Israel is far higher than the level of anti-Semitism in Germany which was largely confined to the Nazi party. See for example Ian Kershaw’s "Popular Opinion and Political Dissent": whose central thesis was that the German public's reaction to the persecution of Jews was characterized by "indifference" rather than fanatical hatred.

Although it is played down today, Hitler came to power despite, not because of his anti-Semitism and unlike the far-right in Israel, which command a clear majority in the Knesset of about 80 seats, the Nazi party never gained more than 37% of the German electorate in a free election (July 1932).

David Bankier concluded that most of the German public:

“did not attribute to antisemitism the importance that it had in the eyes of the National Socialist Party, and placed it in a secondary place in its order of priorities....

The decreased hopes of victory and the fear of the retaliation of the Jews or the Allies led many ordinary Germans to distance themselves from the propaganda, and particularly from the subject of the Jews. The attempts of the Nazis to incite antisemitic feelings did not only fail to calm the fears of the public but actually increased them, and thus the more the information about the mass extermination filtered through the more the public wished to be less involved in the Final Solution.

The level of racism in Israel against Arabs is staggeringly high. According to Dahlia Schendlin, a survey conducted by Professor Tamir Sorek of Pennsylvania State University examined "eliminatory" attitudes among Jewish Israelis and their theological roots.

It found that 82% of Israeli Jews supported the transfer of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip to other countries. 56% supported the expulsion of Arab citizens of Israel. When asked whether they agreed with the idea that the IDF,

when conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites acted when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, namely, to kill all its inhabitants? 

nearly half, 47 percent, agreed. Polls such as these have been remarkably consistent over the years.

An opinion poll (27.3.07) found that over half the Jewish population believed that marriage to an Arab was ‘national treason’. Note that they didn’t oppose inter-marriage on religious but racial and national grounds. Many religions historically, whether Jewish or Catholic, have frowned upon inter-marriage. This is religious chauvinism not racism but when that becomes the policy of a state then that is racism. It becomes a quest for racial purity.

Over 75% of participants did not approve of apartment buildings being shared between Arabs and Jews. 60% said they would not allow an Arab to visit their home. About 40% agreed that “Arabs should have their right to vote for Knesset revoked”. Over half agreed that Israel should encourage its Arab citizens to emigrate from the country and a similar percentage said they would not want to work under the direct management of an Arab. 55% said “Arabs and Jews should be separated at entertainment sites”. 31% said they felt hatred, while 50% said they felt fear in the company of an Arab.

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Over 56% of participants said they believed that Israel’s Arab citizens posed both a security and a demographic threat to the country, in other words that the Arab presence in a Jewish state caused them to fear that one day there might be more Arabs than Jews. When asked what they thought of Arab culture, over 37%replied, “The Arab culture is inferior.”

YNet described how the annual 2006 Democracy Index found that 62% of Israelis wanted the government to encourage Arabs to leave the country.

Only 14% of respondents said ties between Arabs and Jews are good, while 29% said a Jewish majority is required for decisions of crucial national significance.

This was 20 years ago. Today the situation is that much worse. Zionism has embarked on a one-way journey which, left to its own devices, will end up in further genocide and further ethnic cleansing. The role of liberal Zionists is to prettify and justify what is happening in the name of ‘the only Jewish state in the world’, the ‘only democracy in the Middle East’ and other self-serving, meaningless tropes.

Why has Zionism and Israel morphed into a 21st century version of Nazi Germany? It is because a ‘Jewish’ ethno-nationalist state was based on race, not religion. It was not intended to be a theocracy but an ethnocracy, although it may also end up as a theocracy. The one thing that Israel won’t become is a democratic state of its citizens. Being a Jewish state precludes that.

This is why, from the very start of the Israeli state, the Zionist militias ‘cleansed most of the areas they controlled of its Palestinians. Without that there could not have been a Jewish majority state. The Nakba was a precondition for the formation of their ‘Jewish’ state and everything since has flowed from that.

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Today the Palestinians are not willing to vacate Palestine which is why Zionism has turned to terror, pogroms, violence and genocide. The same was true of Nazi Germany. From 1933 to 1939 the policy of the German state was one of ethnic cleansing. It was only when this became impossible that the Nazis turned to genocide.

Israel and anti Arab incitement –Mosques

What we are seeing in the West Bank, with the settler pogroms, is another stage in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. I have little doubt that if these pogroms are unsuccessful in stimulating an exodus of the Palestinians then the Zionists will increasingly turn to genocide there too.

Israel has derived enormous political advantages from the Nazi holocaust which at the time they consciously played down. The Zionist leaders used the Nazi holocaust to maximum advantage in order to demonise the Arabs as anti-Semites. This ruse has been increasingly hard to maintain as the spotlight has turned on their actions.

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As Idith Zertal, an Israeli New Historian wrote in her book The Politics of Nationhood

‘The transference of the holocaust situation on to the Middle East reality… not only created a false sense of the imminent danger of mass destruction. It also immensely distorted the image of the holocaust, dwarfing the magnitude of the atrocities committed by the Nazis, trivializing the unique agony of the victims and the survivors, and utterly demonizing the Arabs and their leaders.

Meir Kahane (Centre) voting in the Knesset

Ben Gvir comes from the tradition of Meir Kahane, the rabbi who was the leader of Kach. In 1984 he was elected to the Knesset. The other Zionist parties immediately boycotted him and walked out of the Knesset whenever he spoke.

Kahane was elected on a programme calling for the expulsion of Israeli Arabs and the deportation of the Palestinians in the West Bank. He called for five year prison sentences for Arab men who had sexual relations with women, which was straight out of the Nuremberg Laws.

However Kahane, who was an embarrassment to the Zionists then, has been proved right in terms of Zionism. Kahane had no time for those who spoke of Israel as a Jewish-Democratic state. He said, quite correctly, that Israel could be a Jewish State or a Democratic State but it could not be both. It was the hypocritical ‘left’ Zionists who maintained that Israel could be both Jewish and democratic when the essence of a Jewish state was that Jews not Palestinians had the power.

Today virtually the whole political scene in Israel has been Kahanised and Kahane lives on in Itamar Ben Gvir, the Police Minister who had on his wall until recently a picture of the mass murderer Baruch Goldstein, who opened up with an automatic weapon killing 29 worshippers in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron.

It should therefore be no surprise that Ben Gvir’s proposal for a racially selective death penalty commanded a majority in the Knesset.

The Dehumanisation of the Palestinians and the murder of their children

All forms of racism dehumanise their victims. But some societies dehumanise them so completely that ethnic cleansing and genocide is the logical outcome.

This is as true of Israel as it was of Nazi Germany. There have been many examples of this in the Gaza genocide but one particular characteristic of it is the dehumanisation of Palestinian children.

Zionist rabbis in Israel have emphasised that the extermination of the Palestinians will only be complete if their children are also killed.

In 2009 a book Torat Hamelech was published by two Chabad Rabbis Yitzhak Shapira and Yosef Elitzur with an introduction by Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburgh. It was a guide to how to legally kill non-Jews according to Jewish religious law, Halachah.

It also justified the killing Palestinian children. Torat Hamelech argued that:

1.          children may be killed if it is believed they will "grow up to harm us".

2.          Harming the children of a "wicked leader" is permissible if it exerts enough pressure on that leader to stop fighting.

3.          Harming innocents, including infants, is allowed if their "presence and their killing is actually beneficial and helpful" to the war effort.

4.        ‘Ruthless acts’ of revenge to create a "correct element of fear" among enemies.

The book said that “The prohibition ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder” applies only “to a Jew who kills a Jew”. This is because non-Jews are “uncompassionate by nature” and attacks on them “curb their evil inclination,” while babies and children of Israel’s enemies may be killed since “it is clear that they will grow to harm us.”

Israel's Judeo-Nazi Rabbi Dov Lior

The book was endorsed by dozens of Israeli rabbis including Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his son Ya’akov Yosef, who were both influential in Shas, a Sephardic party in Netanyahu’s coalition as well as the most influential rabbi of all, Dov Lior.

Dov Lior is famous for having said that

“There is no such thing as enemy civilians in war time. The law of our Torah is to have mercy on our soldiers and to save them … A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail.”

Dov Lior is the spiritual mentor of Itamar Ben Gvir. This is an example of how Israeli rabbis act as the ideological and religious enablers of Israel’s neo-Nazi politicians. Today in Israel, and to a large extent outside Israel, the Jewish religion has become a religion of genocide.

If an Arab cleric were to publish such a book he would suffer the same fate as Raed Salah, who was demonised by Zionist groups in this country. Salah denied that his comments at a demonstration even applied to Jews but was gaoled for ‘incitement to racial hatred’. But when it came to the rabis who wrote Torat HaMelech, the Attorney General refused to prosecute and Israel’s High Court said ‘there was no basis’ for such a prosecution.

Limor son Hamelech - who dressed up as an Executioner for Purim (right) with settler leader Daniella Weiss

In Israel the laws against racial incitement are only applied to non-Jews. Jews can say whatever they wish.

In the current genocide in Gaza Orthodox Rabbis have played a key role in legitimising the murder of Palestinian civilians including children.

Prime amongst them was Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva in Jaffa, who called during a conference on 8 March for the Israeli army to kill ‘all residents of Gaza’. When asked whether this included babies he said:

“Those who create the terrorists” should also be killed, in reference to Palestinian women. Despite these genocidal remarks Israel’s police recommended dropping the case. Elderly people were also legitimate targets, according to Mali.

"There is no such thing called innocent creature. By the way, the elderly man is capable of carrying a rifle and shooting. Therefore, the Torah is very clear in the ruling."

And who was it who placed Israel’s racist rabbis in a position of power in Israel if not David Ben-Gurion, its Labour Zionist Prime Minister. As Adam Shatz wrote in his review of Tom Segev’s biography, Ben-Gurion

gave the Orthodox rabbinate considerable authority over religious affairs.... the rabbis were given the power to define who was and wasn’t a Jew, and which marriages would be recognised. (His own feeling was that Jewish women shouldn’t be allowed to marry Arab men ‘because as I see it an Arab is still not on the human level that I would want for a man who marries a Jewish woman.’)


We see the Nazi behaviour of the Israeli military in Lebanon today. The IDF has decreed that Shi’ite Muslims cannot live in the south of Lebanon.

Some have taken shelter with Christians in neighbouring villages. This has resulted in the Israeli military going into Christian villages, searching for them and warning Christians of dire consequences if they harbour Muslims.

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Such behaviour was reminiscent of the Gestapo who warned non-Jews of the consequences of sheltering Jews.

The law reserving the death penalty for Palestinians has its roots in the ‘socialist’ Zionism that European social democrats embraced. Ben Gvir and Netanyahu did not come out of nowhere. Labour Zionism gave birth to the monstrosity that is the Israeli state today.

Tony Greenstein

See

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