After being roughed up by security forces, MK Lazimi says police helping government suppress democracy

By Sam Sokol 31 March 2025, 10:42 pm

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Sam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"

Israeli police push back people protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/ Ohad Zwigenberg)

After being attacked by law enforcement during an anti-government protest outside the Knesset, MK Naama Lazimi (The Democrats) accuses the police of helping the government suppress democracy.

The police are working “for the coup government, a Kahanist criminal and a prime minister suspected of serious security incidents,” she says.

“History will remember who stood up for the state, the democratic regime and its citizens and who served the people of disaster and destruction,” the liberal lawmaker tweets. “We will not give up and will only fight harder and more determined — until Israel wins. Hope will prevail.”

In a separate tweet, fellow The Democrats MK Gilad Kariv writes that Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana’s “continued silence in the face of police violence directed against Knesset members is a disgrace” that proves that he has turned the legislature into a “scapegoat of the prime minister and his poison machine.”