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1 day ago
Left-wing politics

Israel's Palestinian-Only Death Penalty Law Draws on Britain's Colonial Playbook

Left-wing politics
fromTruthout
1 day ago

Israel's Palestinian-Only Death Penalty Law Draws on Britain's Colonial Playbook

Israel's new death penalty law for Palestinians reflects a historical continuity of colonial practices inherited from British rule.
Europe politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Discriminatory' Israeli death penalty law sparks international criticism

The Israeli Knesset approved a bill allowing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terrorism, raising international concerns over discrimination and justice.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days ago

This is an apartheid regime': Critics decry Israel's new death penalty law

Israel's new death penalty law targets Palestinians, reinforcing apartheid-like legal discrimination against them.
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

No, Netanyahu Is Not Dead

The clip racked up millions of impressions across X, Facebook, and Instagram, fueled not by interest in Netanyahu's words, but by a conviction that the man speaking them didn't exist.
Media industry
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days ago

How Israel's record budget will finance expanding illegal settlements

The $271bn budget aims to fund extreme right-wing projects and entrench Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank amid rising violence.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Israeli settlers carry out series of West Bank attacks as security forces stand by

Israeli settlers conducted coordinated attacks in the West Bank, burning homes and vehicles, and injuring Palestinians amid rising tensions.
Europe politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Five EU governments found to consistently' dismantle rule of law

Governments in five EU member states are intentionally eroding the rule of law, while six others show declining democratic standards.
Law
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks ago

The Rule Of Law Joins America's Dead Pets On The Rainbow Bridge - Above the Law

Trump attorney John Lauro claimed the DOJ improved under Attorney General Pam Bondi, contradicting legal observers who view current conditions as a constitutional crisis threatening prosecutorial independence.
#death-penalty
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago
World politics

The Guardian view on Israel's death penalty: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is doubly so | Editorial

Left-wing politics
fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

Israel poised to pass controversial death penalty bill

Israel's parliamentary committee approved a bill to re-establish the death penalty for terrorists, particularly targeting Palestinians convicted in military and criminal courts.
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

The Guardian view on Israel's death penalty: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is doubly so | Editorial

The new Israeli law mandates the death penalty for Palestinians, reinforcing discriminatory practices and potentially constituting a war crime.
US politics
fromAxios
3 weeks ago

Axios Finish Line: A consensus Bill of Rights

Americans across political lines support limited government intervention in personal freedoms, secure borders with pathways for legal immigrants, reduced federal spending, and decreased government trust.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

Secrecy, Democracy, Necessity

Executive officials justify secrecy through claims of protecting decision-making integrity and national security, but such necessity arguments alone cannot legitimize secret governance in democracies.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 weeks ago

Lammy braced for showdown with Labour MPs over plan to limit jury trials

Up to 65 Labour MPs are believed to be ready to rebel against the justice secretary's plans ahead of the first vote on the controversial bill on Tuesday. MP Karl Turner, a former Starmer loyalist, is leading the calls for a rethink.
UK politics
Arts
fromHyperallergic
3 weeks ago

Ali Eyal Gives Testimony

Iraqi artist Ali Eyal processes childhood trauma from the 2003 US invasion of Iraq through paintings that transform innocent memories into nightmarish visions of violence and loss.
fromBig Think
4 weeks ago

How the U.S. Constitution protects liberty from the powerful's dark impulses

The real Führer is always a judge. Out of Führerdom flows judgeship. One who wants to separate the two from each other or puts them in opposition to each other would have the judge be either the leader of the opposition or the tool of the opposition and is trying to unhinge the state with the help of the judiciary.
History
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Labour lawyers blocked' from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote

Labour MPs opposing jury trial cuts faced blocked access to legal briefings from affiliated lawyers, with 65 MPs potentially voting against the courts and tribunals bill.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Israel forcibly displaces more Palestinian families in East Jerusalem

Israel is intensifying forced displacement of Palestinian families in East Jerusalem, according to human rights groups.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days ago

Palestinians in West Bank protest, strike against Israeli death penalty law

Palestinian protests erupted against a new Israeli law imposing the death penalty for deadly attacks, leading to widespread strikes and condemnation from human rights officials.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians in occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers shot two Palestinians in the head and a third died from tear gas exposure in Abu Falah village, marking at least six Palestinian deaths by settlers in one week.
US politics
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Op-Ed | The Trump administration believes that it has the right to decide what the rule of law is | amNewYork

A federal judge invalidated the Trump administration's policy of deporting undocumented immigrants to third countries rather than their home countries, ruling it violates U.S. law protecting against torture and persecution.
fromemptywheel
2 weeks ago

Mixing The Mixed Constitution - emptywheel

Burke's was a broadside that not only excoriated the social upheavals effected by the French revolutionaries and (by extension) commended by Marx, but the continual economic and social instability prized by modern liberal economic philosophy and practice. Against a new class of elites-mainly, an alliance between ideological progressive theorists and a rising financial oligarchy-Burke urged protection of the stability, tradition, and social continuities vital for the flourishing of ordinary people.
Left-wing politics
Soccer (FIFA)
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations

UEFA and FIFA leaders were referred to the ICC for allegedly aiding Israeli war crimes and apartheid, potentially establishing legal precedent against sports impunity.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Israel's top court allows aid groups facing Gaza ban to continue working

Israel's Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction allowing international aid agencies to continue operating in Gaza and Palestinian territories despite a government ban for non-compliance with new registration rules.
#international-law
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Why international law is still the world's best defence

The post-World War II international legal order faces erosion from ultranationalism, great-power rivalries, and norm violations, risking a return to force-based politics where power supersedes principle.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Aid groups petition Israeli Supreme Court as Gaza, West Bank work ban nears

Israel ordered 37 aid groups to halt operations in Gaza, West Bank, and East Jerusalem by March 1, prompting international organizations to petition the Supreme Court for emergency intervention.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Europe's Israel policy faces a democratic test

Launched on January 13 as a formally registered European citizens' initiative, the petition must reach 1 million signatures from at least seven EU member states by January 13 next year to trigger formal consideration by the European Commission. It is not a symbolic appeal. It is a mechanism embedded within the EU's democratic framework, designed to translate public will into institutional review.
Miscellaneous
World politics
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

How Israel Used the War in Gaza to Accelerate Settlements in the West Bank

Netanyahu's government accelerates West Bank settlement expansion and annexation while the Trump administration tacitly enables these policies through diplomatic recognition of Israeli settlements.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Who will police Gaza, and how?

U.S. officials proposed Palestinian and international security forces in Gaza plus a dramatic West Bank policy shift to prevent Hamas resurgence and enable Palestinian statehood.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

Trump Administration Learns To Its Dismay It 'Cannot Alter Substantive Rights' - Above the Law

A federal judge ruled ICE cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because the statutory 90-day removal period expired long ago, so detention authority has lapsed.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Israel wants to execute Palestinians and the world will allow it

The Israeli Knesset is advancing a bill to legally execute Palestinians, including expedited executions with no appeals and death by hanging.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Sanctions request against Netanyahu filed by UK lawyers, rights group

An Arab human rights non-governmental organisation (NGO) has filed a request for United Kingdom sanctions to be lodged against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over incitement to violence and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. British law firm Deighton Pierce Glynn filed the request on Tuesday with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on behalf of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights UK (AOHR UK), seeking targeted financial and travel sanctions against the Israeli leader.
UK politics
fromTruthout
4 weeks ago

As the War on Iran Spirals On, Israel Further Blocks Movement Within West Bank

While the world's attention is on the U.S.-Israel-Iran war, the Israeli military has placed the West Bank under a functional lockdown. Checkpoints in and out of most major cities are closed, and Palestinians have been left to look for other travel arrangements. Some residents who spoke with Truthout said they traveled for hours through village back roads in an attempt to reach their destinations.
World politics
fromemptywheel
2 months ago

This Is Not A Constitutional Moment - emptywheel

This script is based on a theory proposed by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Ackerman's idea is laid out in his 1991 book We The People: Foundations, and is discussed in the second of his Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures of 2006. It's gained prominence since the 2024 election and the wholesale assault on our governmental system by Trump.
US politics
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

High court to rule on lawfulness of Home Office's decision to proscribe Palestine Action live

High Court will rule on lawfulness of the Home Office proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
1 month ago

The Executive Branch Discovers Judicial Independence, Hates It - Above the Law

DOJ solicited prosecutors for examples of judges who ruled against the government to report to Congress for potential impeachment.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Global pressure does little to stop Israel's anti-Palestinian policies

Many Israelis see international condemnation as evidence of anti-Semitism, rather than a verdict on their government's actions. Defying a chorus of global condemnation and international law, Israel nevertheless proceeded earlier this month with the de facto annexation of the West Bank, home to more than three million Palestinians and a territory it has illegally occupied since 1967. The international criticism that met the announcement was hardly new.
World news
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
1 month ago

Jenrick warns Mandelson's actions is a matter 'of national security and the rule of law' - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

"It's an absolute insult to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein that this government's only response is to ask the Cabinet Secretary for a 'review. "This isn't a case for an HR review; it is a case for the Metropolitan Police. "Peter Mandelson has clearly broken the law and stands now accused of serious misconduct in a public office, and he should be tried for his offences."
UK politics
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

India's Modi tells Israel's Knesset: No cause justifies killing civilians'

Prime Minister Modi visited Israel and addressed the Knesset, expressing India's full support for Israel's military actions in Gaza while condemning the October 7 Hamas attack and endorsing UN-backed peace initiatives.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Democrats have a constitutional power they aren't using to fight back: state resolutions | Sidney Blumenthal

Democratic state legislatures can revive pre-17th Amendment orders of instruction to pressure senators and counter attempts to impose a police state.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Israel to restart land registration in West Bank. What that means

The Israeli government has approved a plan to begin land registration in the occupied West Bank, meaning it will be able to seize land from Palestinians who cannot prove ownership. For the first time since Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967, it will register such land as property of the state also known as settlement of land title in Area C of the occupied West Bank.
World news
#west-bank
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

New Israeli housing plan near Jerusalem slammed as disguised annexation'

Israel plans to build 2,570 settlement homes near Jerusalem, effectively expanding the city and applying Israeli control to parts of the occupied West Bank.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Australian, Palestinian lawyers seek police probe of Israeli president

Australian and Palestinian legal groups asked the AFP to investigate Israeli President Isaac Herzog for alleged incitement to genocide during Israel's Gaza operations.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

How Israel used discriminatory laws to strip Palestinians of citizenship

Israel revoked the citizenship of two Palestinian citizens and ordered their deportation under a 2023 law, prompting Palestinian condemnation as discriminatory and precedent-setting.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Israeli government approves new West Bank land policy

Israel approved a plan to register West Bank land, enabling settlers to buy property and shifting some administration from military to civilian control.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Israel poised to start construction of bypass through heart of West Bank

Israel plans to start work next month on a bypass road that will close off the heart of the occupied West Bank to Palestinians and cement the de facto annexation of an area critical for the viability of a future Palestinian state. The road is a key part of the blueprint for a vast illegal new settlement in the E1 area east of Jerusalem, which would fragment the occupied West Bank.
World news
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Israeli prisons are akin to torture camps', Israeli rights group finds

At least 84 Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli jails since October 2023 amid alleged systematic abuse, denial of medical care, deliberate starvation, and withheld bodies.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Rights group warns on Israeli abuse of Palestinian prisoners

Palestinian detainees report systemic torture, sexual assault, and inhumane treatment across Israeli prisons and detention centers.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

How Israeli settler violence empties Palestinian villages

"The harassment by Israeli settlers had become unbearable," said Rashid, a young mother, as she stood leaning on the metal doorframe of her home in Ras Ein el-Auja in the occupied West Bank. Nearby, a few suitcases and other belongings sat in the corner, neatly packed. "There is no safety left. We've been suffering for three years, but now the provocations increased," Rashid told DW, speaking of how settlers entered their home.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Here's why Israel is allowing record murder rates in its Palestinian towns

Israel is tolerating violence against its Palestinian citizens to push them out, while weaponising anti-Semitism to pull Jews in. While the international media has rightly focused on the genocide and enormous displacement in Gaza alongside the ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, the 300 murders inside Israel in 2025, 252 of whom were Palestinian victims, garnered little to no media coverage outside Israel.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Israel's top court delays Gaza press access ruling amid years-long ban

The decision extends a policy that has barred foreign correspondents from entering Gaza to report on conditions there, unless reporters are prepared to embed with the Israeli army. At the hearing on Wednesday, justices appeared frustrated with the government's explanations for maintaining the blanket ban on independent press access, which has remained in place since Israel launched its genocidal war against the Palestinian people of Gaza following the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Israeli plans deepen de facto annexation of occupied West Bank

The new measures, which aim to expand Israel's power across the occupied West Bank, will make it easier to seize Palestinian land illegally. We are anchoring settlement as an inseparable part of Israel's government policy, said Katz. Experts say it will fundamentally alter the civil and legal reality of the territory, removing what the Israeli ministers termed legal obstacles that have existed for decades against the expansion of illegal settlements in the occupied territories.
World news
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Palestinian citizens of Israel demand government do more to stop crime

Palestinian communities in Israel face endemic organised crime and government neglect, prompting business closures and large cross-community protests.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Tool of siege': Israel's punishing control of Gaza movement

Israeli-controlled crossing closures have become a permanent system of control, redefining Palestinian survival by restricting movement, aid, medical evacuations, and access to basic rights.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank

Israel posted a tender to build 3,401 homes in E1, a project that would sever the West Bank and further isolate East Jerusalem, undermining a Palestinian state.
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