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December 12, 2025

It’s One Thing to Consider Executing Terrorists. It’s Another to Celebrate It

Trading Jewish morality for social-media attention.

The Knesset is currently considering a bill that would introduce the death penalty for terrorists found guilty of murder. To express support for the measure, the far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and some of his associates, have begun wearing small yellow pins in the shape of noose—inspired by the yellow ribbons worn to show solidarity with the hostages. While the moral and practical merits of the measure can be debated, there is nothing wrong, on a fundamental level, with punishing murderers with the fate they inflicted on others. There is, however, everything wrong with rejoicing in it. Amit Segal succinctly gets to the heart of the matter: 

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