How the Zionist Project’s Final Desperate Act Is Being Enabled by Those Who Claim to Lead Us

By Andrew Klein 

Dedicated to every Palestinian prisoner facing execution. To every Australian whose home is treated like a prison cell. To the democracy we are losing while politicians bow to a foreign ideology.

I. The Bill

On March 24, 2026, the Israeli Knesset’s National Security Committee approved a draft law imposing the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners, paving the way for its final passage.

The bill, submitted by Knesset Member Limor Son-Harmelech of the Otzma Yehudit party led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, would:

· Impose a mandatory death penalty for anyone who “deliberately causes the death of a person in an act classified as terrorism” 

· Prohibit any pardon — the sentence is fixed and cannot be commuted or altered by any subsequent political or legal decision 

· Require no unanimous judicial decision — a simple majority will suffice 

· Provide for execution by hanging within 90 days, carried out by the Israeli Prison Service 

· Place condemned prisoners in isolation with no visits except from authorised personnel, legal consultations only by video link

The bill is explicitly discriminatory. For Palestinians in the West Bank tried in military courts, the death penalty is the primary punishment. For Israeli citizens tried in civilian courts, it is one option among several, and the sentence can be commuted to life imprisonment.

This is not justice. This is apartheid codified into execution.

II. The Man Behind the Bill

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s National Security Minister, has been wearing a noose-shaped lapel pin in support of the bill, openly symbolising the execution method he wants imposed. He has described hanging as “one of the options,” adding that alternatives could include the electric chair or “euthanasia.” He has claimed to have received support from doctors willing to participate in executions, telling him: “Just tell us when.”

Ben-Gvir is the same man who, as head of Israel’s prison system, invited members of his synagogue into a maximum-security prison for a “lavish lunch” while Palestinian detainees were denied food during Ramadan. The group was allowed into the highest-security section where Palestinian prisoners were held handcuffed and forced to lie on the ground.

This is the man our political class empowers. This is the ideology they platform. This is the project they support.

III. International Condemnation — and Australian Silence

The international community has responded with alarm.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) : General Rapporteur Gala Veldhoen stated that the bill “constitutes an alarming setback for a country where the last execution dates back to 1962,” and that it “undermines the principle of equality before the law”.

The European Union has opposed capital punishment in all cases, calling it a violation of the right to life.

Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have expressed “deep concern” over the legislation, which they said risked “undermining Israel’s commitments with regards to democratic principles”.

UN experts last month urged Israel to withdraw the bill, citing it “would violate the right to life and discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory”.

Amnesty International urged Israeli MPs to reject the legislation, which it said “would allow Israeli courts to expand their use of death sentences with discriminatory application against Palestinians” .

And Australia? Silence.

IV. The Australian Complicity

While the world condemns, our political class enables.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed joint US-Israeli military action in Iran, using “weasel words” and “careful language” according to Shadow Defence Minister James Paterson, who noted that Albanese “has one eye on domestic politics and his left wing base” . He has not condemned the death penalty bill. He has not spoken against the discriminatory application of Israeli law. He has not called for accountability.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong — whose department has been silent on the Knesset bill — has not issued a statement. She has not joined her European counterparts in expressing “deep concern.” She has not invoked Australia’s long-standing opposition to the death penalty.

NSW Premier Chris Minns — whose government recently deployed eight armoured officers to break down a woman’s door at 5am for allegedly throwing a water bottle at a protest — has said nothing. The same government that introduced laws giving police the power to ban all protests in entire geographical areas for up to 90 days has no comment on a bill that would execute prisoners without pardon.

This silence is not neutrality. It is complicity.

V. The Australian Laws They Ignore

Australia has a long-standing position against the death penalty.

· The Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 abolished the death penalty for federal offences.

· All Australian states and territories have abolished capital punishment.

· Australia consistently advocates for the global abolition of the death penalty at the United Nations.

· Australia has ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits signatories to the abolition of capital punishment.

And yet, when Israel moves to impose the death penalty on Palestinians in a discriminatory manner, our government has nothing to say. When the Israeli Prison Service—headed by a Ben-Gvir appointee—denies Palestinian prisoners food during Ramadan while hosting settlers for lavish lunches, our government says nothing. When a UN committee finds that torture has become a “de facto state policy” in Israeli prisons, our government says nothing.

This is not about antisemitism. It is about the capture of our political class by a foreign ideology that they are too afraid to criticise.

VI. The Intelligence: Foreign Interference in Australian Politics

In January 2026, NSW MP Anthony D’Adam wrote to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke requesting an investigation into whether Israel had breached Australia’s foreign influence laws by authoring a dossier naming Australian politicians as promoting “antisemitic and anti-Zionist content”.

The dossier, published by the Israeli government’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs, named D’Adam, former Greens leader Adam Bandt, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, and independents Fatima Payman and Lidia Thorpe as “key influencers and groups promoting antisemitic and anti-Zionist content”.

The dossier included photos of D’Adam and his partner. He told Guardian Australia it was “clearly designed to intimidate”.

The home affairs department’s guide to countering foreign influence lists as an example of foreign interference: “attempting to restrict or control critical views expressed in media in Australia, including by censorship of content, or harassing and discrediting journalists, activists or politicians” .

D’Adam asked: “How would we react if it was China or Iran producing this sort of material?”.

The answer is that we would react with outrage. We would demand investigations. We would sanction. We would name and shame.

But when it is Israel, our political class is silent.

VII. The Pattern: What They Do to Palestinians, They Will Do to Australians

You have seen it already.

In Sydney, eight armoured officers broke down a woman’s door at 5am for allegedly throwing a water bottle. The police watchdog has now been called in . But the pattern is clear: the same tactics used in the occupied territories—dawn raids, overwhelming force, the intimidation of dissent—are being imported to Australia.

In Israeli prisons, Palestinian prisoners are held in isolation, denied visits, their only contact with lawyers by video link. In Australia, the same laws that give police the power to ban protests also make it impossible to contact senior officers. Their email addresses are not public. Their phone numbers are not listed. The chain of command that once connected citizens to their police has been replaced by a wall of silence.

How long before a Zionist network in Australia proposes the same economic destruction tactics being mooted in the United States? In New York, the new city comptroller has pledged to reinvest in Israeli bonds, despite warnings from human rights groups that this would “finance a military the entire world has watched commit war crimes and crimes against humanity” . How long before Australian superannuation funds are pressured to do the same? How long before the Zionist network in Australia demands that critics be stripped of their assets, their wealth, their livelihoods?

This is not speculation. This is the logic of the project. The Zionist project has always been about power. About domination. About the right to destroy those who oppose it.

VIII. The Larger Truth

This bill is not about security. It is not about justice. It is about the final, desperate convulsion of a dying ideology.

Israel is collapsing. The world has seen what it is. The International Court of Justice has found it “plausible” that it is committing genocide. The old alliances are fraying. The global South has turned away. The young are waking up.

And the extremists are doubling down—not to save their state, but to prove that they were always what we said they were. They are writing their own indictment. They are proving, in real time, that the Zionist project was never about safety. It was never about a homeland. It was about power. About domination. About the right to kill with impunity.

And our political class knew. And they said nothing.

IX. What Must Be Done

1. Australia must condemn the death penalty bill. The Prime Minister must join the EU, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Council of Europe in expressing “deep concern.” He must invoke Australia’s long-standing opposition to capital punishment.

2. The government must investigate Israeli foreign interference. The dossier targeting Australian politicians is a clear breach of Australia’s foreign influence laws. The home affairs minister must act.

3. The NSW Police must be held accountable. The dawn raid on the Ashfield woman is not an isolated incident. It is the pattern. The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission must investigate fully.

4. Australian politicians must disclose their ties to the Zionist network. Who has taken “educational” trips to Israel? Who has received donations? Who has been threatened with accusations of antisemitism? The Australian people have a right to know.

5. The IHRA definition must be rejected. The definition that conflates criticism of Israel with antisemitism is a tool for silencing dissent. It has no place in Australian universities, in the public service, or in Australian law.

X. A Warning

What is happening in Israel is not happening in isolation. It is happening here, in Australia, in our police forces, in our universities, in our public service, in our political class. The same tactics. The same silencing. The same intimidation.

The woman whose door was broken down at 5am is not a terrorist. She is a citizen who exercised her democratic rights. If they can do this to her, they can do it to you. If they can impose the death penalty on Palestinians in the occupied territories, they will find a way to impose their will on Australians.

Zionism is a dangerous, parasitic ideology. It has no place in this world. And it has no place in Australia.

The wire is being cut. The truth is being told. And the political class that enabled this will be held to account.

Dedicated to every Palestinian prisoner facing execution. To every Australian whose home is treated like a prison cell. To the democracy we are losing while politicians bow to a foreign ideology.

We will not be silent. We will not comply. We will not let them take our country.

Sources:

· Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, “PACE rapporteur strongly urges Knesset members to oppose ‘discriminatory’ bill expanding the death penalty in Israel,” March 25, 2026 

· Union of OIC News Agencies, “The Knesset’s National Security Committee approves a bill to execute Palestinian prisoners,” March 25, 2026 

· The New Arab, “Jewish settlers gloat at shackled Palestinians in ‘prison tour’,” February 25, 2026 

· The Guardian, “NSW MP asks home affairs minister to investigate potential foreign interference after Israel ‘targets’ him in dossier,” January 7, 2026 

· The Sydney Morning Herald, “Police watchdog called in over dawn arrest of Herzog protester,” March 30, 2026 

· Sky News, “Transcript: Kenny Report,” March 2, 2026 

· The Intercept, “Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Divest From Israel — But New Comptroller Pledges to Buy War Bonds,” January 30, 2026 

· Jotwell, “Equality Before Law: Just Zionism, Political Liberalism, and the Question of Palestine,” January 12, 2026 

· The West Australian, “Laws for nation’s toughest DV murder penalty introduced,” February 3, 2026 

· AAP News, “Laws for nation’s toughest DV murder penalty introduced,” February 3, 2026 

Andrew Klein 

March 31, 2026