Hadash MK Dov Khenin (Joint List) who vehemently opposes the bill and has termed some of its provisions “fascistic,” said “there was a need to destroy the factory which creates the motivation for terror, and that is the occupation. There is an occupation and from it is derived the right of the occupied people to struggle for their liberty. At times, these turn into acts of violence. The state of violence will continue; for it to stop the Palestinian people must be freed from the occupation.”

Adalah, the Legal Center for the Arab Minority in Israel, commented that “the law substantially strengthens and broadens the powers of the police and the General Security Services (‘Shabak’) to suppress any legitimate protest activities against Israeli policies. It also legitimizes the use of ‘secret evidence’ in order to take preventative measures against these activities, thereby impeding the possibility of objecting before the judiciary to such repressive measures.” Adalah emphasized that if the new “Anti-Terrorism Law” passes, it would “seriously escalate the level of repression and intimidation targeted against the political activity of Palestinian citizens of Israel through the criminalization of political, cultural and social relationships between them and the rest of the Palestinian people.”