Since October 2023, Israel has enacted over 30 laws that deepen systemic apartheid and repression against Palestinians, according to a new report by the legal center Adalah. These laws, passed between October 7, 2023, and July 27, 2025, target a wide range of political and civil rights, including freedom of expression, protest, citizenship, family life, equality, and the rights of detainees and prisoners. Adalah asserts that these measures fundamentally violate Palestinian human rights. The report highlights several legislative trends, including the expanded use of counterterrorism laws, which are disproportionately applied to Palestinian citizens of Israel and residents of occupied East Jerusalem. The vague definitions of ‘terrorist act’ and ‘terror organisation’ in the 2016 Counter-Terrorism Law have become tools to suppress Palestinian freedom of expression. Another trend involves channeling state resources to Jewish Israeli reservists, explicitly excluding Palestinian citizens from benefits such as tax relief, welfare, higher education, and employment support. The report also notes the institutionalization of temporary emergency measures, which have been repeatedly renewed or made permanent, enabling widespread violations of detainees’ rights and punitive conditions for Palestinian prisoners. Adalah links these laws to Israel’s constitutional framework, which prioritizes ‘Jewish ethno-national supremacy,’ as reflected in the 2018 ‘Nation State’ Basic Law. The government’s guiding principles, adopted in December 2022, assert exclusive Jewish rights over all areas between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The report examines five key themes: denial of freedom of expression, thought, criticism, and protest; denial of citizenship, family life, and community ties; systematic denial of fair trial guarantees and assaults on prisoners’ rights; denial of social rights and deepening inequalities in resource allocation; and the termination of UNRWA operations in occupied Palestine. Laws criminalize the consumption of media produced by designated ‘terrorist organizations,’ ban statements denying the events of October 7, 2023, and allow the education ministry to dismiss teachers and defund schools for alleged support of terrorism. Foreign nationals can be barred from entering Israel for critical speech or appeals to international courts, and critical media broadcasts may be restricted on claims of ‘harm to state security.’ Palestinian lawyer Amal Orabi argues that these laws aim to ‘silence and suppress’ Palestinian citizens of Israel, preventing them from participating in global discourse or exposing violations. Adalah has documented a total of 100 discriminatory laws, which criminalize political expression, authorize deportations of Palestinian families, block family unification, permit the dismissal of Palestinian teachers, revoke social welfare benefits for families of children convicted of ‘security offences,’ expand detention powers, restrict access to legal counsel, and close independent media outlets. Miriam Azem, Adalah’s international advocacy coordinator, states that these laws ‘overwhelmingly and systematically’ target Palestinians, using counterterrorism and security frameworks as a proxy. She notes that the legislative campaign against Palestinians shows no signs of slowing, with multiple bills advanced in the current parliamentary session, including the death penalty bill and the extension of the offence of consuming ‘terrorist publications.’