The Israeli Knesset passed a new law this week, championed by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, that mandates the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murder—but not Israelis. The law is specifically crafted to discriminate along ethnic lines. On paper, it punishes “terrorists who have carried out murderous terror attacks,” but the wording is carefully chosen so that it only applies to crimes committed “with the aim of negating the existence of the State of Israel.” This means that Israelis who kill Palestinians, with the intent to promote or defend Israel, are excluded by definition. As the New York Times delicately puts it, the law “almost certainly cannot be applied to Jewish extremists convicted of similar crimes.”

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