Nizar Banat, a Palestinian activist, an outspoken critic of Palestinian Authority and its corruption, was murdered on the 24 June 2021, by the Palestinian Preventive Security force – policing arm of the Palestinian Authority, in the occupied West Bank. This isn’t shocking to many who have studied Oslo Accords and have followed Israel-Palestine relationship/conflict over the years. It can be argued that Palestinian Authority since its inception, has acted similar to those “Slave Patrols” in the antebellum United States which were set up with enslaved African Americans to monitor and enforce discipline, at the behest of their white masters, upon their fellow enslaved African Americans. The history of corruption within and by Palestinian Authority (PA) is well documented, recent instances of such corruption include - people in the occupied West Bank who were close to the inner sanctum of PA received COVID vaccines, at the expense of front-line health workers and other essential services’ workers, when there was a shortage of vaccines in general, then there was that scandal of salaries being paid to “employees” of a non-existent Palestinian Airlines, but what often is not widely reported in the mainstream media is its history of collaborating with the State of Israel to suppress and crackdown on any dissent from the people it supposed governs, i.e., Palestinians.  Palestinians in a way face oppression from not only their occupier, but also from people who are supposed to govern them and when an activist like Nizar Banat comes along and openly challenges these corrupt authorities, in a civilised manner, they act with impunity and respond with brute force and violence. In the recent years PA’s dominance over occupied West Bank has been overshadowed by its decades long corruption and its perceived inability to act in a manner that would deliver Palestine its statehood, therefore, there is little doubt that Banat’s assassination wasn’t motivated by political insecurity of Palestinian Authority. The other not so surprising element of Banat’s assassination is its coverage by the mainstream western media, for example: BBC reported, “Prominent Abbas critic dies in PA Custody after ‘vicious beating’ by officers”NBC referred to it as “Outspoken critic of Palestinian Authority Nizar Banat dies after violent arrest”DW News called it “Palestinian Authority critic Nizar Banat dies after arrest”The Times of Israel phrased it as “Activist critical of Palestinian Authority dies after arrest” The thing that is missing from all of these headlines is Banat just didn’t die, he did not have a cardiac arrest, he did not have a stroke, he wasn’t 100 years old and therefore did not “die” of aging. Banat was beaten mercilessly and allegedly with wooden and iron batons by the policing arm of Palestinian Authority, which has a history of violence against its own citizenry and Banat not only dared to speak out against the authority but also challenged them in the elections that were postponed indefinitely by Mahmoud Abbas, who has been the President of Palestinian Authority for over 16 years. Therefore, it can be argued that Banat’s death was an assassination.