While India’s Prime Minister Modi addressed the Israeli Knesset today, there was a notable, deliberate, absence. Knesset Speaker and Netanyahu acolyte Amir Ohana, in his eagerness to please his boss, had refused to extend the invitation customary on such occasions, to Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit. The symbol of the law in this country, Amit was not welcome. Law had been banished.

Also today, pro-government demonstrators turned up yet again to harass Channel 13 anchor Lucy Aharish at her home (just as, only a few nights ago, they had done the same, blasting messages through a loudhailer just outside her front door and badly frightening her five-year old child). Also today, as I type this, I read that more pro-government activists have gone to the home of a veteran protest couple in Modi’in (the same, usually sleepy city, where some weeks ago a gang of young pro-government teenagers beat up an elderly protestor, sending him to hospital).

See the symbolism? Law was not welcome in the Knesset today, and order is increasingly absent in the country.

I won’t go into the specifics of the cases above – suffice to say that Lucy Aharish and also her husband each saved many Israeli lives since the October 7th attack, and that the Modi’in protests are invariably well-behaved and dignified and attended by true patriots – because........

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