Did orange symbolise passive resistance?
Not in the same way as in the Ukraine. But there was passive resistance. People express their opinions, by whatever means is available at the time. If someone was a physician and he wore an orange bracelet, her patients would see it [and get the message]. You can protest by doing nothing overtly out of the ordinary. Even later on, when it was clear that the settlements would be destroyed, this form of passive resistance continued. But we are Jews, and Jews are not aggressive (laughter) [I assume I laughed at that point in the interview]. This is part of our mentality (contingent upon merchants persecution. Even now, when we have independence, are not be napastliwi in such situations [lost in the translation]). No one wanted civil war, or even the impression of civil war. Someone told me that at the Hebrew University, people who previously liked to wear orange clothes, no longer did so, since it had become a political statement with which they did not particularly wish to be identified.
