The former and designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the former and designated cabinet member Miri Regev, MK Itamar Ben-Gvir and many other public figures including members of the Ramat Gan city council lashed out this week at an unfortunate teacher at the city’s Yahalom elementary school. Some even demanded his dismissal. Netanyahu outdid himself by calling on social media for a police investigation, no less. The right-wing politicians attached to their posts a picture of Netanyahu alongside swastikas and a noose, and they excoriated the teacher for exposing his students to such images. Did they provide any context or explanation for the images? Don’t be ridiculous.
The images were from an “exhibition” on walls in the school called “The fifth grade asks: Let’s change the conversation. End the violence and incitement.” It included more than 20 posters, divided into two sections. The right side was devoted to former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s murder and the inflammatory posters that led to it, such as ones showing him in an SS uniform or a kaffiyeh. The other side was ostensibly devoted to leftist incitement against Netanyahu and the right, in the wrong and ingratiating style of “extremists from both sides.”
Later, after it became clear that this wasn’t incitement against Netanyahu, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton – who had initially joined the critics and threatened to demand explanations from the teacher – said the exhibition in question “was put up...
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