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Black shirts, white people

2020-05-03T21:50:33.557Z


Dinah Din


"Black shirts, white people." So last week I tweeted at the somewhat disturbing photos of black-clad left-wing protesters standing in threes and roaring in uniform "D-MOC-TIA!" Militia members enlisted to defend the Supreme Court's tooth tower from the dark mob threatening to damage the last stronghold. 

What is this last stronghold, really? The court and the judicial system are the last bastion to which the mob has yet to penetrate; An elitist stronghold that represents, one by one, the lifestyle of the Tel Aviv white tribe, who demonstrates tirelessly. More than they came to defend democracy, they came to fight for one of their last centers of power, and fight so they would not steal the state.

Following this tweet, I received hundreds of venomous, cursing, and even violent reactions to me and my family. I was mostly called a racist. 

I am not alarmed by this scorn, which is nothing but a means of silence. The simple fact is that the Israeli left is consciously - and to a large extent, physically centered - in the center of the country. Most people who include themselves in it are established Ashkenazi and privileges. It's a generalization, but it's not detached from reality. Is it not customary to point to the eastern periphery as a stronghold of voting?

And this is the prism through which protests to save democracy have been explored in recent years: the mechanisms whose defense the left has been forced to fight with holy rage are caught outside the Tel Aviv bubble with endless suspicion. Large parts of the peripheral public endeavor to avoid any contact with them - the times when I stood in Be'er Sheva in front of a stone wall, illustrating to me the extent to which there is no proper public defense system in Israel, and which seven sections of hell need to go through to obtain legal protection. I have often seen the weakest standing helpless in the face of cruel lawyers representing banks, cellular providers and credit companies. 

This system protects the militia of the black shirts. What does one have to understand from this simple man who lives in the periphery - or in the southern Tel Aviv neighborhoods - who is repeatedly shown proof of his transparency? He understands that the Israeli left is struggling with all its might to preserve its power within a system protected from any criticism, a system that does not see it, that does not count its needs and hardships; Not carrying the daily cost of its value decisions, a system in which public confidence strives for zero.

Yes, the white left and the privileged self-astonished by the impressive protests he is directing for democracy, but in his shirts and black flags he is embarking on a mass war on the last fortress of the Israeli elite. Interests, privileges, power. Not much beyond. 

Dina Dayan is a Labor Party member, a resident of Mitzpe Ramon

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Source: israelhayom

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