(Israel Government Press Office)

Ma'ariv discusses 'Israel Apartheid Week', which is currently underway on many college and university campuses in the US. The author regrets that "In the forefront of the struggle are not just Islamists but many Jewish students who have been brainwashed," and believes that "Apartheid Week is, in effect, Racism and Anti-Semitism Week, even though Jews and Israelis take part in it as organizers and spokespeople." The paper says: "Almost none of those involved in 'Apartheid Week' deny the right of other peoples to define themselves. They deny the right of self-determination only to the Jews. The struggle is not against outrages, it is against the national state of the Jewish People. The struggle is not against racism, it is racism." The author notes that Hamas and its supporters are part and parcel of the campaign and of the BDS movement, and asks why they "do not protest against the mass slaughters being perpetrated by political Islam everywhere it has an iota of power?"

Yediot Aharonot wonders who represents the majority of Arabs in Hebron, "Those who go out to demonstrate or those who, at the same time, work and earn their living in nearby Kiryat Arba or the Jewish communities in the area? These Arabs are transparent, they don't exist as far as the average Israeli is concerned, just as the fabric of life between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem is not brought to the awareness of the average Israeli. The young parking lot attendant, the taxi driver, the waiter, many of the shop assistants at the mall in Malha, Arab patients, nurses and doctors in Jewish hospitals, Arab lecturers and students – they are all transparent, unlike those who riot in the streets. They are seen very well. Those with pretensions of statehood bite the hand that feeds them. They feed on water, gas, electricity, work, technical and professional know-how, port services and the collection of a major part of their taxes, medical services and security for their establishment figures. Even the construction of the city of Rawabi depends on Israeli companies. The twisted portrayal of life on both sides of the Green Line has a simple explanation: Extremists on both sides, Left and Right, are troubled by coexistence. It spoils the wet dream of transfer – for Jews and Arabs. Let us not forget: ‘They are there and we are here’ is Kahane's slogan which has been adopted – surprisingly – by the Left."

Yisrael Hayom discusses German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit and asserts: "One must accept her friendship and her assistance even if she has reservations about Israeli policy" on certain issues. The author avers that "Merkel is a welcome guest especially at the present time when boycotting Israel has become fashionable in certain European circles. Her government – as opposed to Deutsche Bank – is still a bulwark against boycotts, which even Israelis struck with self-loathing support."

The Jerusalem Post is concerned by the plight of Ukraine’s Jews, one of the largest Jewish communities in the Diaspora, and notes that “the unrest [in the Ukraine] has led to a rise of anti-Semitism.” The editor believes that “None of the possible scenarios awaiting Ukraine’s citizens, particularly those of the Jewish persuasion, arouses much optimism,” and calls on Ukrainian Jews to “follow in the footsteps of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian Jews who have already come home to Israel.”

Haaretz criticizes what it terms “the heinous discrimination in services the municipality and the state give Jerusalem’s Palestinian residents.” The editor notes that “Israel denies many of them, on various pretexts, the right to live in their city. It expels them from their homes to the West Bank,” and asserts: “As long as Israel controls East Jerusalem, it must protect the rights of the Palestinians living under its sovereignty.”