After protesters hit by car in Tel Aviv, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi blames ‘leftist leaders’ for violence

After three protesters were injured by a car that plowed into them during the Tel Aviv protests for elections and a hostage release deal, Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi says that Israel’s civil discourse has deteriorated due to “leftist leaders, inside and outside the coalition.”

“Don’t run over protesters. Period. Don’t attack police officers, period. Don’t throw burning torches at the prime minister’s house. Period,” writes Karhi on X in reference to protests in Jerusalem which have turned rowdy.

“Even if the reality of allowing disturbances and blocking the roads is intolerable, one must exercise restraint and be very careful,” he says, in apparent criticism of the anti-government protests which are back in full swing and taking place alongside hostage deal protests after pausing in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas massacre.

“This deterioration to October 6, let by leftist leaders, inside and outside the coalition, does not help anyone and tears us apart in the middle of a war,” writes the Likud minister.