Yair Lapid

What changed

In Statement A (August 2024), Lapid criticizes the absence of police enforcement against what he calls a violent protest, demanding to know where the arrests are and implying police inaction is unacceptable when it comes to that particular demonstration (associated with the ultra-Orthodox or right-wing camp). In Statement B (September 2024), Lapid condemns police violence against citizens in Beit Shemesh, calling it 'unbearable and unforgivable' and demanding accountability. The tension is that he calls for stronger police enforcement in one context while condemning police use of force in another, suggesting different standards depending on who the protesters are — which he himself acknowledges by noting police 'does not distinguish between protest groups,' implying the opposite of what his own differential framing suggests.