"Kalman Libeskind is not a mouthpiece for any politician, and among the publicists of the right today, he is the most eloquent of them all," writes Yossi Ben-Ghiat. "He is not an idiot.

The column is written at a high level, as usual, and it is not idiotic at all - it is indeed manipulative, rude and unaware at best, or terribly hypocritical at worst," he adds. "Kalman's claims in the column are directed at two programs in Khan 11 that do not bode well for him," he writes. "For him, that is a different treatment that deserves a different system"