On Thursday, Kan 11 legal correspondent Shelly Tapiero sharply criticized State Prosecutor Amit Isman after he spoke at a law conference at the University of Haifa. Her comments came in response to a speech in which Isman described the current legal and public environment as unusually complex.
Isman said that the same set of facts is often given two completely opposite interpretations, and that one event can be portrayed either as a minor violation or a serious crime, depending on the speaker’s position. He argued that when stance comes before facts, truth is pushed to the margins and every professional decision is immediately attacked, not necessarily because it is wrong, but because it does not serve a particular side.
He also warned that, in this difficult period, law-enforcement bodies face heavy pressure from many directions and must respond with restraint, clear thinking, and strict adherence to evidence and the law. Tapiero attacked those remarks and said, in effect, that “in less polished words, everything is wonderful here, no populist decisions are made, and the public is stupid.”
The remarks were made in the context of broader concern around pressure on Israel’s enforcement authorities. The article notes that the state prosecutor had already warned on the same subject that it “raises serious concern.”
