Inverted Society

April 01, 2026

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The world does not need a reminder that Israeli society is a vicious, demented place where all morality is inverted and all human values are lost. From its genocide in Gaza to its horrific acts of violence and oppression wherever it wages war, Israel’s character is known to all. But if anyone needed another reminder of how barbarically racist and unequal Israeli society is, it can be seen in the new decision by the Israeli parliament, which approves a law permitting the execution of Palestinians convicted by Israeli courts, while the death penalty does not apply to Israeli citizens or Jews convicted by the same courts.

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This is the legal definition of apartheid. Two different legal systems for two different groups of people based on their ethnicity and religion. And while the entire Israeli system is structured around apartheid, a law that explicitly differentiates between the two, awarding the death penalty to one and not the other, is perhaps the clearest possible demonstration of it.

Furthermore, it is not simply that the law now allows execution. Israeli courts already practice this disparity in full, with Palestinians facing conviction rates exceeding 90 per cent, while cases involving violence by Israeli settlers have conviction rates below 3 per cent. This is a system that allows settlers to carry out unmitigated violence against Palestinians, while any Palestinian response is met with the harshest possible force.

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But that is not all. The glee with which sections of Israeli political leadership celebrated this announcement, with figures like Itamar Ben-Gvir celebrating within parliament with bottles of champagne, reflects a broader moral decay within the system. After years of genocide and decades of brutality following the Nakba, one might have assumed that the limits had been reached. Yet, with each passing moment, new depths appear to be found.

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