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Michael Zoosman

Jun 5, 2026, 3:19 AM

From Death Penalties to Hanging Effigies: Executions Feed the Cycle of Violence

The hanging effigies of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Donald Trump on display at a recent pro-Palestinian rally in Montreal serve as the latest nauseating reminder that calling for executions only...

Michael Zoosman

May 21, 2026, 11:45 PM

Hamas Threats Confirm Worst Incitement Fears After Israel’s Death Penalty Laws

Michael Zoosman

May 18, 2026, 8:37 PM

The Shameful Company of Global Executioners that Israel now Keeps

We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” across Israel and the world, lament the fact that the two barbaric execution-related bills that a majority of Knesset members have recently passed into law place Israel...

Aaron T. Walter

May 18, 2026, 4:42 AM

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There are moments in history when societies reveal not merely their political divisions but also their moral collapse. New York City, once the symbolic capital of Jewish security in the Diaspora, is beginning to show signs of such a...

Michael Zoosman

May 12, 2026, 3:37 AM

While Judaism Affirms Life, Israel’s Latest Execution Law Serves Death

By the end of his life, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate and staunch death penalty abolitionist Elie Wiesel famously said of capital punishment: “Death should never be the answer in a civilized society.” We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim!...

Michael Zoosman

May 11, 2026, 11:08 AM

Ben Gvir’s Death Penalty Dream Is Israel’s Nightmare

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Last week, Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir once again provoked global recriminations when he posted an AI-generated TikTok video declaring he 'dreams' of nooses, celebrating a law that mandates death by hanging exclusively for Palestinian detainees....

Michael Zoosman

May 6, 2026, 11:31 PM

Knesset’s Second Death Penalty Bill Debases Israel’s Lag Ba’Omer Revelry

The Knesset’s obsession with the death penalty in Israel once again collided with the Jewish liturgical calendar in yet another telling synchronicity, highlighting how that legislative body has upended the Jewish value of life. Many in Israel and across...

Michael Zoosman

May 4, 2026, 6:05 AM

Israel’s Latest Reminder that the Death Penalty Celebrates State Killings

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We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” from Israel and across the world, categorically condemn the latest display of the macabre celebration of death and killing associated with Israel’s recently passed “Death Penalty for...

Michael Zoosman

Apr 21, 2026, 7:23 AM

Israel’s Death Penalty Law Betrays Judaism’s Core Values this Yom Haatzma’ut

Just as Israel’s new racist, vengeful, unjust and dangerous death penalty law defiled last week’s observance of Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) and Yom Hazikaron (Israeli Remembrance Day), so, too, does it now violate Yom Ha'atzmaut (Independence Day) commemorating...

Michael Zoosman

Apr 19, 2026, 12:20 AM

Remembering Wrongfully Executed IDF Officer Meir Tobianski this Yom Hazikaron

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A Yom Hazikaron Reminder that the Death Penalty Kills the Innocent In 1963, the Israeli Knesset declared the fourth of Iyar, the day preceding Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, as Yom Hazikaron, an official Memorial Day for those who lost...

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