Danielle Cantor

Launching my book SPREADS this evening at Beit Romano, as part of Scopes Festival. 18:00. Bring friends, bring family, bring cash.

Come out this Mother’s Day weekend, 2-6pm Saturday, May 9th, @rosewoodclothingco , for a pop-up fundraiser supporting a generation of mothers from the village of a-Tuwani in Masafer Yatta. These women, featured in the award-winning film No Other Land, have created a hand crafted collection of traditional Palestinian Tatreez-embroidered pieces, including scarves, wallets, pillowcases, bookmarks, and more. In solidarity with motherhood under occupation, a group of Richmond vendors have come together to donate their goods with all proceeds going directly to these mothers as they work to sustain a stable livelihood in Area C of the West Bank. This has become increasingly difficult due to revoked work permits and ongoing state-backed settler terrorism, which has severely restricted access to their agricultural lands. By purchasing these handmade pieces and goods from local Richmond vendors, you’re not only supporting these mothers and their cultural tradition, you’re also taking a meaningful stand for the right of mothers everywhere to provide a safe and dignified future for their families.

As we are in the midst of Passover, the Jewish holiday that marks the liberation of the oppressed, resistance, and ethical inheritance, we take a moment to reflect on Gaza: What happens when the tables turn? When it is our Pharaoh who is annihilating an entire people? While the story of Passover centers the people and children of Israel, today we think of the children of Palestine who are robbed of the most fundamental right to experience childhood. Hundreds of thousands of children have lost parents, homes, friends, and teachers. They have lost their schools, playgrounds, soccer fields, and community centers. They are living under constant danger, in ongoing trauma. It is our moral responsibility, our human contract with one another, to speak loudly where silence and apathy are encouraged; to act in solidarity where the actions carried out in our name are marked by deep atrocities; and to insist that liberation must be for all. We, @culture_of_solidarity , are raising funds for the Hind Rajab Educational Center in Gaza. The center operates in Khan Younis and supports around 80 children aged 8-12, providing educational, psychological, and social support. It works to bridge learning gaps caused by living under genocide, and to create a safe, nurturing, and supportive space for children living through continuous trauma. For this initiative, we’ve partnered with @dignity4palestine for our second collaboration with the organization. In previous efforts, we raised over 50,000 NIS for flour sacks distributed among displaced families in Gaza. Now, we are working together once more. Donate (from wherever you are in the world) and share this link with your family, friends, and colleagues. All children deserve a prosperous and safe childhood. Thank you Link in bio 🤍 Design by @noawiegenfeld

Red, white and nothing else.

Over the past two and a half years the humanitarian crisis imposed by the occupation in the West Bank has continued to deteriorate with a sharp escalation in state and settler terrorism, the forced displacement of entire communities, the destruction of refugee camps, and the systematic deepening of poverty and hunger through restrictions on access to land, brutal attacks during the annual olive harvest, and the sweeping cancellation of work permits. Together with many partners, activists, and grassroots organizations, we have been operating an annual food aid network for Palestinian communities in Area C ahead of Ramadan. Our initiative is a mere channel of solidarity within the communities’ larger struggle over their homes, their land, their livelihoods and self determination, as they stand against the atrocities of the occupation forces, in the face of increasing efforts to forcibly expel them. Let us be clear, this is a band-aid on a deep infected wound, the most crucial support one can offer first and foremost is resisting the occupation and the systematic ethnic cleaning of the Palestinian people and advocating for them in whichever way they are asking of you. Ramadan is a month of generosity and responsibility. Every donation, small or large, helps reach more families and communities. Solidarity and collective resistance to the occupation are the stubborn hopes we must continue to hold onto. Donation link in my bio.

A young Israeli girl walking past a banner with the quote “She was my best friend”serving as a testimony from Habiba, an 8 year old girl from Gaza on missing her best friend who was bombed by Israel. On the night of March 18th, 2025, Israel violated the Hamas - Israel ceasefire and massacred 414 Palestinians, amongst them, 194 children in one night, the deadliest single day of children in modern history. As Palestinian mothers, fathers, sons and daughters frantically searched the rubble looking for their loved ones, I found myself amongst a group of activists in Tel Aviv - Yafa desperate to find a way to resist. We disrupted the weekly liberal Zionist protests carrying the unbearable grief and disbelief at the scale and totality of the devastation our country was bringing to the people of Gaza. We stood there holding remembrance candles and home-printed black and white A4-sized photos with the names and ages of just a fraction of the children that Israel murdered in the previous night. Our only goal was to bring forth what one cannot look away from, what one cannot find excuses to justify, what one cannot argue with. The massacre of children. Most of Israeli society has not acknowledged the genocide that we are still committing in Gaza. I’ve heard the same pretexts again and again, even for most outrageous of war crimes. “But the videos are a.i.” “But Hamas steals the food.” “But they voted for this government.” “But what if these children grow up to be Hamas terrorist?” These children and our simple act of remembrance acts as a mirror to Israeli society: You cannot call for the end of the war without acknowledging and taking responsibility for the genocide that Israel is inflicting on Gaza, there will never be a democracy in Israel as long as we are occupying another people. Director Hilla Medalia documented our action and the short documentary she made was very recently nominated for Best Short Documentary for the 98th Academy Awards. This too is a conflicting moment. It’s conflicting because Palestinians should be centered and celebrated, not Israeli activism. **Continue in comments**

i made a matzo ball soup costume in 2025

This past weekend my attention was fully devoted to the force that goes by Sister Pearl, captivating me with her witty storytelling, enlightening me with her all-seeing wisdom, gracing me with vulnerability, rolling and feeding me meatballs. There is a certain essence in spending time with you Micki, a friendship that makes one feel at home. May this year bring you, you. The inner vision to see what we all see. The outward vision to see all that you deserve. The collective grasp of this equation (love love love). A year of lush outdoors to remind you of joy! breakfast with girlfriends to start your days off right! All the darkrooms to spark every corner of your own inner light! Love youuu mickiiiii.

The merch design that meant the most for us to work on this year, was this. Inspired by a photo, probably from the 80s, of two women, one Palestinian, one Jewish, standing together with handmade signs calling for an end to the occupation and for shared liberation. When Culture of Solidarity took off, our mantra was, we’re not here to invent anything new. We’re here to listen, to learn from those who came before us and to join the long river of movements that have already been fighting for justice on this land. Over the years, people of diverse identities and histories welcomed us with a generosity far bigger than we understood at the time, when our political awareness was still forming. They taught us what commitment and courage looks like. What it means to stay, not just in moments of hope, but through decades of injustice and loss. Finding this photo in the Tandi archives transported us to the movements of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, to decades of Palestinian-Jewish women’s organizing. The grief came first, confronted with the painful truth that despite decades of struggle, the reality today is not only unchanged but has further deteriorated. And still, the image carried a fierce sense of meaning. These women laid the groundwork of shared resistance; they insisted that liberation is indivisible, and that anything less is merely reshaped oppression. From this, the line emerged on its own, almost as a hope or a wish: we are the daughters of unfinished revolutions. Thank you sister @evil_forces for designing this shirt with us and sister @___bkmeow for advising. And of course, Tandi, for your steadfast resistance, the meaning of a woman’s work, throughout the decades. One more day to shop for the shirt online and by that make a donation to the food security program of @culture_of_solidarity . Link to Merch for Mutual Aid site is in our bio. There will be a few more shirts at our Friday event at @nilus_allenby 11-4pm! See you!

On July 28, 2025, Awdah Hathaleen was killed in Umm al-Khair while documenting settler activity near his village. Multiple videos, including footage filmed by Awdah himself, show Israeli settler Yinon Levi raising a gun and firing. Levi was detained but released shortly after, with the judge citing “insufficient evidence.” Awdah worked in non-violent resistance, documenting demolitions and settler attacks, education, and community organizing, and contributed to the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. As heartbreaking as Awdah’s story is, it represents only a fraction of the ongoing violence, dispossession, and erasure that Palestinian communities endure every day. Over the years, the residents of Umm al-Khair have faced repeated demolitions, settler harassment, water-system sabotage, and land seizures. On October 28, 2025, the Israeli Civil Administration issued final demolition notices for 11–14 structures, including homes, the community center, and other vital infrastructure. These demolitions threaten to erase the village and leave dozens — possibly ~100 people — homeless. Speak up now — share this video, tag your representatives, demand an independent investigation, and call for the demolition orders to be halted before it’s too late. For more info on how to help, check out the links in @nootherland.film bio!

כל מה שנותר לנו הם המעשים שלנו. ‎איך אנחנו פועליםות אל מול חוסר המוסריות של כוחות הרשע. איפה אנחנו מציבות את הקווים האדומים ולוקחיםות את ההחלטה להתחבר למצפון שלנו, להרגיש את הזוועות המבוצעות בשמנו, להפנים שהאנושיות המשותפת שלנו קודמת לכל הגדרה אחרת שנתנו לעצמנו או ניתנה לנו. ‎הזמן לפעול עבר מזמן, ובכל זאת עדיין ניתנות לנו הזדמנויות לגלות סולידריות, לעמוד לצד פלסטיניםיות בזכותןם לעבוד ולהתפרנס מהאדמה שלהןם, מבלי לפחד מתקיפות מתנחלים ומצבא שסוגר את הגישה לאדמותיהןם. ‎ביום שני הקרוב נצא לתמוך בחקלאים פלסטינים ולהיות נוכחות מגנה בזמן מסיק הזיתים השנתי. נמסוק ביחד זיתים שיהפכו לשמן זית ויימכרו כפי שהם עושים דורות רבים אחורה. ‎מה שמתרחש בגדה המערבית צריך להדאיג כל אדם ואישה החיים כאן. לאף אחד מאיתנו אין את הפריבילגיה להיות אדישים לזה. אנחנו לעולם לא נהיה חופשיים אם איננו מסוגלים להביט בכנות על מציאות הכיבוש, אנו לנצח נהיה כלואים באשליה רגעית שהורגת את האנושיות שלנו, את היכולת שלנו להרגיש, עד שזה יגיע לפתח דלתנו, ואז כבר נהיה אנחנו הקורבנות הבאים של עליונות יהודית. ‎כאשר מתנחלים נוקטים בפעולה - שורפים מכוניות, מכים בנשים מבוגרות, עוקרים את עיני עדרי הצאן ואת עצי הזית של הרועים והחקלאים הפלסטינים - החוסר פעולה שלנו הוא מתן רשות לפעולות שלהם. ‎הרשמה למסיק בביו.

My dear friend P, a migrant worker from India who’s visa was revoked under an abhorrently racist law forbidding such workers from giving birth and raising children in israel, was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. She is currently going through intense medical procedures without insurance, while working a full time job cleaning houses. For my birthday this year I want to ask you all, whoever has the means, to chip in and donate to help this truly lovely family get by during these unbearable times. In the photos above, a series of P’s magic-making hands alongside some of the delicious dishes and desserts she has cooked up over the past 6 years of our friendship. Donate through PAYPAL - @spreadsforall / link in my bio.