Israel’s parliament passed a law early today to allow it to deport anyone to the Gaza death zone who has a family member in the Palestinian resistance – including Arab-Israeli citizens.
The law, sponsored by members of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and his far-right government allies, passed by 61 votes to 41.
The law, which makes a mockery of Israeli propaganda claims about its treatment of its approximately two million Arab citizens, applies to Palestinian citizens of Israel and to those living in annexes East Jerusalem, as well as to any who “express support or identification with the act of terrorism”, which the government is free to define as it wishes.
So-called ‘offenders’ could be deported to the Gaza Strip or to another location of the Israeli regime’s choosing for a period of between seven and twenty years. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has so far killed around two hundred thousand people and maimed many more and the regime is engaged in a campaign to starve the two million or so who still survive, including a complete blockade of northern Gaza and the categorisation of the four hundred thousand people clinging on there as terrorists to be killed.
It is likely, given the framing of the law, that merely having a relative in northern Gaza could therefore be treated as enough grounds for deportation.
Neither UK PM Keir Starmer nor Foreign Secretary David Lammy have so far condemned Israel’s latest discriminatory – and murderous – legislation.
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Apartheid Occupation Force’s guilt by association but perhaps real agenda is to boot indigenous Arabs there out?
The Balfour Declaration (1917) said a Jewish Home and not a state which the Zionists had been pushing for and it should do nothing to the detriment of the indigenous (Palestinian) population.
How some seem to have collective amnesia?
Wonder if the current British Govt remembers the Zionist fanatics who killed British soldiers, working class blokes who were only trying to keep the peace in the late 1940’s, then hanging some of their bodies from trees?
One rule for one, one rule for others?
Wonder if the current British Govt remembers the Zionist fanatics who killed British soldiers, working class blokes who were only trying to keep the peace in the late 1940’s, then hanging some of their bodies from trees?
…And booby-trapping their corpses.
The animal directly responsible for that was menachem begin – who became founder of the likud party, and (former) israeli PM.
Hmm, after the plot to assassinate Hitler, not only were the plotters tried and executed, their family members became non-people, losing all privileges, civil and otherwise, whether they had been long-term Nazi Party members, themselves, or not.
The Nazis had a lot to teach Zionists about ‘collective punishment’, and a lot else besides.
Yael Kahn whose Jewish family suffered under the Nazis, was arrested in London yesterday for speaking up against the neo-Nazi State of Israel which commits genocide right in front of our eyes She was equating Nazis with the actions of the Israeli state. In my opinion they are worse in many respects, as outlined in ICJ opinion.
https://x.com/ronnie_barkan/status/1721204520699539559
I think it was a Public order offence/Hate crime, we will all be in the frame soon.