@middleeasteye: Israel is creating “a much worse apartheid than what prevailed in South Africa,” said Mustafa Barghouti, director of the Palestinian National Initiative and Palestinian rights advocate. In an interview on CNN, he said that even the apartheid regime in South Africa did not go so far as to admit that death sentences could be determined based on the race of the accused perpetrator. On Monday, the Israeli parliament passed a death penalty law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners accused of terrorism. The legislation establishes two separate pathways for the death penalty based on national identity. It makes the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank who are tried in military courts.