{"id":2061,"date":"2022-06-08T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T07:38:24","slug":"a-reading-of-article-4-from-the-law-criminalizing-normalization-with-the-zionist-entity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/posts\/2061","title":{"rendered":"A Reading of Article 4 from the Law Criminalizing Normalization with the Zionist Entity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Osama Al-Shabib<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 26, 2022, the Iraqi Council of Representatives voted on the law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist entity (comprising 16 articles). The law begins by defining the terms \u201cZionist entity\u201d and \u201cnormalization,\u201d then specifies the objectives of this legislation, followed by the scope of application, crimes and penalties, the concluding provisions, and the reasons necessitating the legislation.<br \/>\nThe existence of a law criminalizing any relationship with the usurping Zionist entity\u2014any relationship concerning the land of Palestine and the holy sites\u2014remains a fundamental and significant issue in Iraq, both socially and politically, for two main reasons:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Reading.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read more click here<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arabic Version:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/posts\/3090\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/posts\/3090<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Osama Al-Shabib On May 26, 2022, the Iraqi Council of Representatives voted on the law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist entity (comprising 16 articles). The law begins by defining the terms \u201cZionist entity\u201d and \u201cnormalization,\u201d then specifies the objectives of this legislation, followed by the scope of application, crimes and penalties, the concluding provisions, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[299,300,298,240],"coauthors":[334],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","tag-criminalization-law-of-normalization-with-the-zionist-entity","tag-iraqi-council-of-representatives","tag-keywords","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}