Israel’s judicial overhaul will not make a qualitative difference for Palestinians, but it does signal that the intensity of the Zionist colonial project is ramping up.

The Knesset passed preliminary readings on two bills to shrink the Supreme Court’s authority and allow intelligence services to gather personal data from travelers.

Israel’s far-right government provides Palestinian rights advocates an urgent responsibility and unprecedented opportunity to challenge Israeli settler-colonialism, apartheid, and occupation.

The petition was filed to protect two schools and 32 other structures, including a health clinic, from demolition in the heart of Masafer Yatta. 

After 18 years of seeking justice for their murdered 13-year-old daughter, who was killed during the Second Intifada by an Israeli soldier, the Israeli Supreme Court dismissed the Al-Homs family’s case against their daughter’s murderer in July. “The Israeli judiciary offers no justice at all,” Eman’s father, 68-year-old Sameer Al-Homs, tells Mondoweiss. 

Actions that could constitute breach of loyalty or trust include anything the state finds as “terrorism”, espionage, or treason. Rights groups expect the law to be used disproportionately against Palestinian citizens of Israel, who make up 20% of the state’s population. 

The Israeli Supreme Court rules that the killing of four Palestinian boys playing soccer on the beach during the 2014 assault on Gaza cannot be prosecuted because military commanders were seeking to distinguish civilian from military targets as much as was practicable. The “ruling in the Bakr boys’ case is further evidence that Israel is unable and unwilling to investigate and prosecute soldiers and commanders for war crimes against Palestinian civilians,” say the human rights groups that sought an investigation of the killings.

Within the Israeli colonization project, distinct legal frameworks are applied across a legally fragmented space and yet nevertheless share a common defining logic. The unifying logic of Jewishness as property, central to this system of settler-colonial domination, gives coherence to these legal fragments.

Four years after she was arrested by Israeli police over a poem she had written and published on social media, Dareen Tatour’s legal battles are finally over.