Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left?

Israeli soldiers detain an Israeli peace activist as hundreds of Israeli left wing activists try to enter the West Bank town of Huwara, to show solidarity with Palestinians following a deadly settler rampage there earlier in the week on February 27, 2023 in Huwara, Israel.

What’s it like to be left-wing in an aspiring ethnostate?

Israel has swung hard to the right in the last few decades, with self-described fascists now in government. But a left remains, calling not just for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza, but for the end to the apartheid regime as a whole. What power do they have?

Comedian and activist Noam Shuster-Eliassi and +972 Magazine journalist Haggai Matar talk to Rivkah Brown about the terrifying consequences of resistance to the Israeli state, how Jewish ethnic minorities are treated within Israel, and how to survive in a society that treats ‘leftist’ as a slur.

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