The Knesset has voted overwhelmingly to extend Israel’s state of emergency for a 68th straight year.
The measure, in place since the state’s founding, allows Israeli authorities to keep in place some British Mandate-era rules, such as the controversial administrative detention, which allows suspects to be held without charge indefinitely.
Pillorying the 71-17 decision, MK Basel Ghattas (Joint List) says a country as unjust as Israel is indeed in a state of emergency.
“A state of emergency because of racism. A state of emergency because of the occupation. A state of emergency because of a prime minister who allows himself to use the discourse of hatred, of incitement, of brutalization against its citizens and its Arabs. Indeed there is a state of emergency,” he says, according to a Knesset transcript.
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