there were 500 hearty souls who would not be deterred by the refusal of the police. They marched anyway. They did so peaceably and wonder of wonders–the police didn’t interfere! Imagine if the organizers of the original event had stood their ground. What might have happened then? Imagine displaying a left that couldn’t be cowed by the security apparatus?

But Shimri Segal, a Knesset aide to Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz, published a curious diatribe on his Facebook account (since removed but saved for posterity here) which blamed the protesters who demonstrated last night for promoting “violence” instead of peace: