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A Palestinian protester holds a placard showing a crossed-out noose during a rally in the Beit Jala village near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Israel’s death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno‑nationalism

The vote to have death by hanging as the default for Palestinians guilty of killing Israelis represents the further entrenchment of a two-tier legal system.
President Donald Trump walks with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on Oct. 13, 2025. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

Trump’s ability to counter Netanyahu’s spoiler tactics in public may have been key to advancing a ceasefire in Gaza

President Trump reversed a long-held perception among US foreign policymakers that pressuring Israel should only be done in private.
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti raises his hands as he enters the courtroom for his trial in Tel Aviv in 2002. Brennan Linsley/AP

The leader most capable of governing a future Palestinian state is languishing in an Israeli jail

Marwan Barghouti, jailed since 2002, remains the most popular Palestinian leader in polling and is viewed as the one most capable of uniting all Palestinians.

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