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The banality of Putin

Igor Bagnyuk, a lieutenant colonel in the Russian army, is not a household name. His work, at the vapidly named Main ...
When Law Becomes a Tool of Ethnic Cleansing Rezgar Akrawi The Death Penalty for Terrorists Law was formally passed on 30 March 2026, with a 62–48 vote. Israel's National Security Minister, Itamar ...
The vote to have death by hanging as the default for Palestinians guilty of killing Israelis represents the further ...
My son, Yuval, was killed on October 7. I know the feeling when the death penalty seems not only justified, but inevitable. That is precisely why I try not to trust it completely.
The Trump administration has so far avoided joining global critics of the law, which de facto excludes Israelis who kill Palestinians.
Israel's Knesset voted to mandate the death penalty for terrorists convicted of deadly attacks, a shift lawmakers say was driven by the horrors of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Rabbinical groups said the law flies in the face of Jewish tradition and violates international principles of due process and ...
In a step carrying deep political and legal implications, reflecting a rapid shift toward greater hardline and extremism within the Israeli establishment, the Knesset approved, on Monday evening, a ...
The United Nations human rights chief is urging Israel to repeal its new "deeply discriminatory" death penalty law, warning ...
Today on TAP: A Palestinian murder of a Jew is a capital offense; it’s not for a Jewish murder of a Palestinian. Today On TAP Weekday newsletter features commentary from Robert Kuttner, Harold ...
Opposition lawmakers, rights advocates and some foreign governments condemned the law as discriminatory. Israelis in the ...
Israel’s parliament on Monday passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis. The law makes death by hanging the default sentence for Palestinians convicted ...