BYM ‘troubled’ by new death penalty law

‘It is irreversible, it is cruel, and it denies the possibility of redemption.’

by Joseph Jones 10th April 2026

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is ‘profoundly troubled by the Israeli Knesset’s passage of a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks’, it said in a statement last week. The new law ‘puts the lives of thousands of Palestinian prisoners at imminent risk’.