While Ben Gvir poses with a noose shaped lapel pin, record numbers of prison fatalities on his watch is hitting Israel hard. Right, so Itamar Ben Gvir turning up to the Knesset in a bright yellow noose pin is one of those moments where the performance finally catches up with the policy isn’t it? Because you do not need to be a legal scholar to see what a man is telling you when he walks into a parliamentary committee dressed like the executioner while more than a hundred Palestinian detainees have died on his watch in detention. You do not need insider briefings to understand what it means when he praises soldiers who shoot surrendered men in Jenin and then tries to promote the officer responsible. And you certainly do not need a UN mandate to work out why states are starting to bar him from entering their borders. You just have to look at the no ...