Labor party activist Dina Dayan spoke to Erel Segal and Avi Issacharoff at Radio 103FM about the harrowing experience she had when she returned from a left-wing protest in Jerusalem Tuesday night.
Dayan recounted, "I was wearing a head covering. Two guys walked in front of me with black flags and mask which read 'CRIME MINISTER,' and they had apparently been planning this [from the moment they saw me]. When they reached me they took off their masks and spat at me, and then immediately started running. This was obviously an anti-Semitic incident. They didn't have any idea who I am. They just spat at a religious woman who was walking down the street. It was a terrible experience, and if I was someone else no one would have even heard about it."
Dayan explained that she believes the left is in the midst of a severe crisis. "I have a lot to say. I feel like we have lost our way, that we have gone mad, that the Israeli left has completely lost its compass."
"Israel had a values-based, Zionist left, a Jewish left which was socialist, called for mutual guarantees, and had certain economic principles. It no longer exists. It has been lost. It was stolen by a certain group of people, and what they're trying to do right now is to tear apart our social fabric. which is probably the most important thing we have at this moment."