Israel’s ‘slay-for-play’ practice must be stopped
For many Israelis, killing Palestinians with impunity is a state-sponsored sport.
If one did not know better, they would believe that the Palestinian government places public ads on social media trying to recruit Palestinians to kill Jews. The sheer sound of that sentence sounds sick, as it should.
The reality, of course, is something entirely different.
In fact, it is Israel which has instilled a culture of “Slay-for-Play” to enable its soldiers and private citizens to shoot first and ask questions — if ever needed to — later. As B’Tselem, Israel’s leading human rights organization, previously documented, “[Israel’s] open-fire policy — which allows the unjustified use of lethal force — conveys Israel’s deep disregard for the lives of Palestinians and facilitates Israel’s continued violent control over millions of Palestinians.”
Not only are Jewish Israeli settlers on a rampage of pogroms against Palestinian communities, but the Israeli military is engineered and backed up by government policy to undertake the same pogroms, albeit the latter frame it as acting against security threats; a concept that Israel has debunked with their disproportionate and arbitrary use of force.
