JERUSALEM, Israel — Ron Scherf is so controversial within Israel that he asked me not to share anything about his address when we met, late at night, in the sixth week of Israel’s war against Hamas.
Scherf is a reserve officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and a member of Israel’s high-tech community. He is also one of the founders of Brothers in Arms, an organization of IDF veterans that formed earlier this year to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial reforms, which sparked nationwide protest.
The content of our meeting was off the record, and it almost didn’t happen: one of the spokespeople for Brothers in Arms was understandably reluctant to deal with an editor from Breitbart News, which is not only a conservative outlet but has also had a rather notorious reputation in the Israeli media, ever since former chairman Stephen K. Bannon was falsely accused of being an antisemite during the 2016 U.S. election.
Moreover, Breitbart News has been generally supportive of Netanyahu and his policies.
When I began writing about the judicial reform controversy earlier this year — which now seems ages ago, given the events of the last several…
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