Jewish tradition treats disagreement as a value. Pirkei Avot promises that a dispute “for the sake of Heaven” will endure. This week, during the Ten Days of Repentance between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Religious Zionism party released an election video with no disagreement in it at all. The only words its opponents are given are a slogan the video itself puts in their hands: “No Smotrich.” Then they are dragged away.

The AI-generated video was released on Tuesday, September 15, which was also the International Day of Democracy, about six weeks before the October 27 election. It accompanied the justice-system plan presented by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and MK Simcha Rothman: an override clause, curbs on the powers of the courts, splitting the role of the attorney general and a new method for appointing judges. Supreme Court President Isaac Amit, Justice Daphne Barak-Erez and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara appear in it as protesters blocking a road, holding that slogan on protest signs. Security personnel in yellow vests grab them and drag them through burning streets. In the final scene, Amit walks alone down an empty street, defeated, trailing the........

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