Deputy AG likens government rhetoric against prosecutors to Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber strongly criticizes the government and Prime Minister Netanyahu over claims by the premier and his allies that his indictment on graft charges was part of a “judicial coup.”

“Sometimes, in order to not admit the truth of a lack of leadership, the fan is turned on to disperse the blame in all direction,” Zilber says at a conference hosted by the Israel Democracy Institute, according to the Haaretz daily.

“They are creating an imaginary reality of a ‘prosecution within the prosecution,’ or a state of secret evil bureaucrats plotting a coup. Add some blood to the mix and you have — with a twist — a crazy comeback of the Protocols of the Bureaucrats of Zion,” she adds, likening the government’s rhetoric to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious fabricated anti-Semitic text from 1903 purporting to describe a Jewish plan for global domination.