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Masafer Yatta Home Demolitions: The Dust of Our Ancestors

The Dust of Our Ancestors The ground trembles before the machine arrives. For Abed, a boy whose life has been measured by the rhythms of the seasons and the endurance of stone, the sound is the roar of a monster. He stands frozen on the rocky soil of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills […]

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Israel Strangles Palestine Economy

GENEVA – September 16th, 2025  — UN experts* today warned of the severe economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip and its wider financial stranglehold across the occupied Palestinian territory. “Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated […]

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The Place That Must Not Be Named

– Yahav Zohar – September 15th, 2025 –  A tour group visits the Gaza border area with Yahav. – Last Thursday, out by the fence of the Gaza Strip, we stood to the side of road 232 and watched plumes of smoke go up between the towerblocks of Gaza city, 3 or 4 miles away.  […]

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Rulings Don’t Rebuild Houses: The ICJ Ruling Impacts on the Front Lines of the West Bank

– by Anna Lippman – 5/8/2024  This article was first published in Rabble and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. In this article Anna Lippman shares her eyewitness account of life in Palestine’s West Bank as residents face increasing harassment from illegal Israeli settlers. The breaking news alert chimes on my […]

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In the West Bank Village of Burin, Kites Are a Form of Resistance

– by Anna Lippman – 29/7/2024  This article was first published in Mondoweiss and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. Anna Lippman recently attended the Burin Kite Festival, a multi-day festival of Palestinian culture, livelihood, and resilience in the face of military occupation. Members of the Green olive Collective were […]

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The Writing Was On The Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners

– by Janan Abdu  – 28/5/2024 This article was originally published by +972 and republished here with their permission. It discusses how horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics. For months, revelations have emerged about the nightmarish transformation of Israel’s Sde Teiman army base, located […]

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What is going on with Israel’s strategic foreign policy?

A brief analysis of recent Israeli foreign policy: regional summits a year and a half on from the Abraham Accords, plus staying neutral in face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – by Alexander Jones – Israel’s strategic foreign policy goals have always been numerous and complex, if nothing else. As the first quarter of 2022 […]

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Netanyahu, Prime Minister for life?

– by Yahav Zohar – Is Netanyahu using Coronavirus as cover for a Coup? Israelis protest against Bibi In 1968, a few months after the Israeli army had conquered the West Bank and Gaza and once it became clear the government intended to keep these territories under military rule, Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz wrote a now […]

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2019 Speaking Tour – USA

Green Olive Partners Mohammad Barakat and Fred Schlomka will be on a speaking tour across the USA at the end of September. Fred and Mohammad will be discussing recent events on the ground in Israel/Palestine and the work of the Green Olive Collective. They will also introduce a new project and our unique crowdfunding campaign launching soon. Green […]

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2019 writing competition

NOW OPEN FOR VOTING BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC UNTIL 27TH SEPTEMBER  >> VOTE HERE >> ENTRY FORM | VIEW PAST ENTRIES | VIEW CURRENT ENTRIES The Green Olive Collective is launching a writing competition and you are invited to share your thoughts with our community! There are cash prizes to be won and author Gershon Baskin has kindly […]

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LEADERSHIP LEARNING MISSION * Action Alert *

8th July, 2018 – The Bedouin village of Khan al Ahmar is in danger of demolition. Urge your Senators and Representatives to join the delegation to help save the village.  Two months ago The Green Olive Collective teamed up with the Rebuilding Alliance to bring US Congressional staffers to Palestine and Israel for an intensive […]

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