What’s Happened to the Israeli Left
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Dana El Kurd speaks to Danielle Cantor, Israeli leftist activist and co-founder of Culture of Solidarity – a mutual aid organization in Israel/Palestine. They talk about the role of mutual aid in mobilization, the impact of occupation on the Israeli system, and where the Israeli left has gone since the October 7th attacks.
Sources:
Gisha - https://gisha.org/en/
Breaking the Silence - https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Zochrot - https://www.zochrot.org/welcome/index/en
Culture for Solidarity - https://www.instagram.com/culture_of_solidarity/
Dignity for Palestinians - https://dignity4palestine.org/
Physicians for Human Rights Israel - https://www.phr.org.il/en/
Rabbis for Human Rights - https://www.rhr.org.il/en/
Remembering Awda Hathaleen - https://jewishcurrents.org/remembering-awdah-hathaleen
Beith El-Meem - https://www.beitelmeem.org.il/aboutus-eng
“No Other Land” documentary - https://releasing.dogwoof.com/no-other-land
“Coexistance my ass!” documentary - https://www.coexistencemyass.com/
Dahlia Scheindlin's book "The Crooked Timber" on Israeli democracy and the occupation - https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110796582/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqr8ur0KCgqZAYrxz5fZYX7QZpUlt6vN0b7zWTl-lJzNZDV-mgs
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Call Zone Media. |
| 0:10.9 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:11.7 | My name is Donna Al-Kurd, and this is It Could Happen here. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm an associate professor of political science and a researcher of Arab and Palestinian politics. |
| 0:19.6 | Today on the podcast, we have Danielle Cantor, |
| 0:22.7 | and she'll be talking to us about mutual aid work in Israel, leftist politics in Israel, |
| 0:27.7 | and her personal journey. Thank you so much for being on the show. Hi. So yeah, if you'd like to |
| 0:34.3 | introduce us to yourself and your organization, culture of solidarity, that would be fantastic. |
| 0:39.9 | Sure. Yeah. Hi. I'm Danielle. I run with a beautiful community, a mutual aid called Culture of Solidarity. |
| 0:49.3 | I don't know if people here are familiar with mutual aid work or if I should give a little explanation about that. |
| 0:55.7 | I mean, you can give a spiel, yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | A little spiel, yeah. |
| 0:58.4 | Just basically kind of caring for your community through different aid programs while resisting |
| 1:05.8 | the systems that kind of preserve their poverty and their oppression. |
| 1:14.0 | That's how I view what mutual aid work is. |
| 1:29.9 | And yeah, so we run a mutual aid. It runs in many forms, but mostly we have a food security program that supports kind of the people that fall in between the cracks of the systems within Israel and Palestine. |
| 1:36.9 | Well, obviously, the systems within Israel and in Palestine, we work mainly in Area C in the West Bank in Massafaliyata. Yeah, so we do food security, like food packs that are culturally |
| 1:42.7 | appropriate for each community receiving them |
| 1:45.9 | based off of what they are asking, whether it's diapers, baby formula, you know, fit to each holiday. |
| 1:52.1 | Now we just finished, or we're still in the midst of a Ramadan annual campaign where they're all |
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