“There is something in the elegance of the old left that we reject,” he says. “We would never say in response to some insult directed at us by right wingers that it’s beneath us to react. We will fight back.”

On top of this argument, Gitzin, surrounded by young left circles, says something surprising: “All the left in Israel is under assault; but we, the young generation, are really angry at the older generation for letting it get there with no real fight back.“