The use of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware against Israeli citizens, including mayors, suspected criminals and activists in the Black Flags protest movement, if it indeed happened as was alleged in an investigation by Calcalist’s CTech technology site, is anti-democratic and unconstitutional. The real black flags are not the activists, but rather those flying above a clearly illegal act by the Israel Police. Pegasus is a software program whose damage to basic rights – to privacy, to freedom of expression, of protest and of association – is far greater than that caused by the invasive investigative