Welcome to +972’s Sunday Recap!

Last week, Israel’s death penalty drive entered its next stage: Lawmakers in the Knesset voted 93-0 to create a special military court to try Palestinians accused of perpetrating the October 7 attacks. As Sari Bashi argued, the new tribunal will be designed to subvert due process rights — and by allowing for confessions extracted through torture, will likely lead to mass executions.

Marred by protests over Israel’s inclusion, the Venice Biennale is hosting an exhibit with 100 works of Palestinian embroidery based on harrowing images from Gaza. Local Call reporter Oren Ziv interviewed Faisal Saleh — a Palestinian-American entrepreneur, founder of the Palestine Museum US, and one of the curators of the exhibition — about how it came to life.

In April, for the first time, Israel convicted Palestinian citizens for chanting slogans. Local Call Reporter Baker Zoubi wrote about how a Haifa court found two men guilty of “indirect incitement to terrorism” after they joined an anti-war protest, and lawyers warn it sets a dangerous precedent.

Sebastian Ben Daniel confronted the farce of Israel’s ‘liberal’ investigative journalism: A recent exposé on the killing of three hostages by Israeli soldiers highlights how even critical news programs form part of an architecture of public denial.

And next month, +972 Magazine, Local Call, and the independent Israeli publishing house November Books will be publishing Sally Rooney’s latest novel “Intermezzo” in Hebrew — in a way that honors the principles of Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. As Haggai Matar noted, this comes five years after the bestselling Irish author first declared her support for BDS, when +972 saw a chance to help strengthen the boycott movement and clarify its aims.

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