FACT CHECK · RELIGION
Claim: 'Both sides have severe apostasy laws'
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Israel has no apostasy law: anyone may leave Judaism or any faith. Pew counted 22 countries with apostasy laws; in some, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, it can carry the death penalty.
SOURCE
Pew Research Center, apostasy and blasphemy laws (2019)
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