Kahanism is alive in the Ben-Gvir police, and Israel's gatekeepers may have woken up too late
The attorney general's legal opinion to the High Court is the obvious response to the police's new role as a political militia. If the justices turn a blind eye to Ben-Gvir's transgressions again, they'll be responsible for the totalitarian disaster that follows
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The attorney general's legal opinion to the High Court is the obvious response to the police's new role as a political militia. If the justices turn a blind eye to Ben-Gvir's transgressions again, they'll be responsible for the totalitarian disaster that follows
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03:37 PM • January 02 2026 IST
In November 1986, racist lawmaker Meir Kahane went to a gathering in Tel Aviv suburb Kfar Sava and had eggs thrown at him. The man Menachem Begin once described as "a very serious problem in terms of national security" wiped the goo off his suit and smeared it on the uniform of a police officer standing next to him.
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