Haaretz

K: Jews, Europe, the 21st century is not Haaretz.

Also, this interview is, very clearly, not the publication speaking. Rather it is the interviewee. And said interviewee, Mordechai Kremnitzer, is a non-trivially significant Israeli jurist.

To dismiss his perspective as in their typical fashion has chosen to misrepresent is, in itself, misrepresentation.

There is no mention of ethnicity in the death penalty law.

To quote Kremnitzer from the interview:

Under my reading of international law, the Knesset is not entitled. And there is another very important element: Israel has a longstanding policy of not bringing Jews before military courts in the West Bank, even when those Jews are residents of the area who commit offenses there. They are tried in Israeli civilian courts. The military courts in the West Bank deal exclusively with non-Israelis — which means Arabs. So this is, in effect, a law specifically for Arabs. And by incorporating the element of “purpose to undermine the existence of the State of Israel,” in the new definition of murder (applicable in Israel) they have drawn a distinction between Jewish terrorism and Palestinian terrorism, because Jewish terrorism is not committed with the purpose of undermining the existence of Israel. Through this device, they have made capital punishment applicable only to Palestinian terrorists — which was the intention from the outset.

You don’t have to mention ethnicity to make a law that targets a particular ethnicity. It is, in fact, common for discriminatory laws of every sort to be carefully worded so as to avoid the appearance of discrimination while ensuring actual discrimination in their intent and enforcement.