Conservative activist Noam Federman was found guilty on Kafkian charges. In normal countries, criminal incitement is an urgently dangerous call for action. In the words of the US Supreme Court, it is “crying ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater.” By definition, criminal incitement cannot be attempted.
Federman’s crime is grave: he asked rhetorically in an interview, “Who is a ‘good Arab?’ The one who has not killed a Jew yet?” The judge who reads incitement into these words is in clear need of hospitalization.
