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| Knesset passes law to strip Israeli citizenship from terror convicts paid by PA, Arab party protests |
| 2023-02-16 |
| [IsraelTimes] The Knesset passes a law to strip convicted turbans who receive funding from the Paleostinian Authority or an associated organization of their citizenship. Getting rare cross-Knesset support, the law passes 94-10 on its third and final reading. While its main sponsor was Likud MK Ofir Katz, it also counted members of the opposition’s right-wing and center-left politicians among its cosigned supporters. The law, an amendment to Israel’s 1952 Citizenship Law, applies to both Israeli citizens and permanent residents incarcerated following a conviction for terror, aiding terror, harming Israeli illusory sovereignty, inciting war, or aiding an enemy during wartime, and enables the interior minister to revoke their status after a hearing. The law also expands the ability to revoke citizenship from persons lacking a second citizenship, provided they have a permanent residence status outside of Israel. Once citizenship is revoked, the person would be denied entry back into Israel. The Paleostinian Authority regularly pays stipends to convicted terrorists, and the bill also applies to organizations that pay out on the PA’s behalf. The requirement to receive PA-linked money makes the law inapplicable to Jewish terrorists. Hadash-Ta’al slams ‘anti-democratic’ law to strip terrorists of citizenship [IsraelTimes] The majority-Arab Hadash-Ta’al party slams a just-passed law to strip convicted turbans of their citizenship or residency if they were paid by the Paleostinian Authority. The payment clause is widely understood to have tailored the bill to apply only to Paleostinian terrorists, who routinely receive stipends from the PA or related organizations, and to exclude Jewish turbans from scrutiny. Hadash-Ta’al says that the law is "anti-democratic" because it leads to a "deepening of the occupation, one law for the Jews, and another law for the Paleostinians." "There is no democracy with occupation, it is the opposite," the party says. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 The same logic as The Squad. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-02-16 10:32 |