OUTRAGE: Israel’s Execution Bill For Palestinian Prisoners Passes

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of Israel's execution bill for Palestinian prisoners with legal expert Dr Nimer Sultany.

Fronts + Fault Lines, is a new podcast on Palestine Deep Dive developed by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), an organisation of Palestinian and Arab youth in diaspora struggling for the liberation of our land and people. Hosted by, Jeanine and Nihal, organisers with PYM in Britain - this new podcast series in collaboration with the Palestinian Youth Movement, offering sharp analysis on the Arab and Iranian region and what it means for us in Britain. In the wake of Prisoners' Day and in the shadow of the execution bill they are joined by Dr Nimer Sultany who is a leading scholar of constitutional and comparative law, who has written extensively on Israeli law's legitimating function, the legal architecture of occupation, and the relationship between law and colonial power. They discuss how understanding the execution bill requires tracing the legal genealogy of Israeli incarceration back through its British Mandate inheritance; the emergency regulations, the military ordinances, the administrative detention frameworks that Britain constructed across Ireland, India, and Palestine, and which the Israeli state absorbed and expanded after 1948. Support us by becoming a paid…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jeanine, Nihal

Guest: Dr Nimer Sultany

Topics covered

• Israeli law
• Palestinian prisoners
• execution bill
• colonial power
• legal architecture
• British Mandate

Keywords

• execution bill
• Palestinian prisoners
• Israeli law
• colonialism
• legal history
• British Mandate
• administrative detention

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Palestinian Youth Movement

Books & works: Fronts + Fault Lines

Places: Britain, Palestine, Ireland, India

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