Ilana Dayan
The Guardian
What holds, and what fails, under pressure, standards and accountability.
Ilana Dayan is a prominent journalist known for her in-depth reporting on complex social and political issues in Israel. This interview reveals her commitment to highlighting the human impact of conflict and her role in fostering dialogue and understanding amidst turmoil.
“What I would tell Angela, and that's what I would tell the BDS people. As long as we are this kind of country in which these kinds of incidents, having to do with Palestinians and occupation and the evil of occupation, it's ventilated, it's out there, it's discussed. We rip each other apart about these issues, but it's on the table.”
“First of all, I oddly enough don't remember anything of my childhood in Argentina. Perhaps it's not that odd, because when you come to Israel at the age of six, especially Israel of the beginning of the 70s, you want to become an Israeli so badly, so fast, so totally that I forgot everything about being from somewhere else.”
“But then I tell him, you know, but if we are with a bunch of people, if they come and try to run you over with a car, they look for a bunch of people. And this is a crazy conversation. Don't be alone. BB bunch of people. Don't be with a bunch of people. Perhaps better. And then I tell them, you know what?”
“I came to the checkpoint, it's not the checkpoint, it's the desk of the guy at the entrance to the office of the president of the Rais, a Palestinian security guy who was checking my bag. And he said, I need your iPhone and I gave him my iPhone. And then he found my iPad and he said, I need your iPad.”
The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 554 — Ilana Dayan
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