The deputy speaker of the Israeli Knesset on Tuesday called Israelis protesting against the government a “branch of Hamas”. “There are a few branches of Hamas — the fighting branch of wicked terrorists who murder children, and the branch of the protests,” Nissim Vaturi told ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Barama, implying that Israeli protesters were supporting Hamas. Vaturi was replying to a question about clashes between police and protesters who tried to march on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house in Jerusalem, calling for a truce deal to return captives held by Hamas and ea…