– by Awdah Hathaleen – 27/6/2023 This article was first published in Humans of Masafer Yatta and we are grateful to share it here with the permission of the author. He is an activist and community advocate from the village of Um al-Khair in Area C of the occupied West Bank. Last Sunday, when I was on my […]
– by Erez Bleicher – 7/5/2023 I was hosted this past Friday in the occupied South Hebron Hills for the first of what will be monthly solidarity visits jointly organized by the Green Olive Collective and All That’s Left. These solidarity work days are an opportunity to stand in solidarity with Palestinian villages and materially […]
– by Yahav Zohar – 2/4/2023 After weeks of widespread protests in opposition to the planned “Judicial Reform”, on March 27th Netanyahu backed down and deferred the legislation, upsetting many members of his coalition. It soon became clear that to keep far right leader Itamar Ben Gvir in his government, Netanyahu had that same night […]
– by Fred Schlomka – 19/2/2023 During February and March 2023, Green Olive Managing Partner Fred Schlomka cycled across part of the the Middle East, through a region marked by division, segregation, and political tension. His journey crosses many regional boundaries and borders that reflect a tense history. Fred’s observations and reflections are a snapshot […]
– by Yoav Peck – 12/1/2023 Here is a reflection from Yoav Peck, a Jerusalem organizational psychologist and co-director of community relations at the Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families Forum, about the incoming government and the dire political landscape. Annie Edson Taylor was an American schoolteacher who, on her 63rd birthday in 1901, survived a trip over Niagara […]
– by Awdah Hathaleen – 15/11/2022 Last week on November, 23rd occupation forces demolished a primary school in the village of Isfey in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Members of Green Olive have close relationships in the region, including with the author of this article about the ways occupation impedes education there. We […]
– by Yahav Zohar – 13/11/2022 Last Tuesday Israelis went to the polls for the fifth time in three and a half years, finally yielding what may be a stable government coalition. It is no surprise that this government will again be headed by Netanyahu, but what has been a surprise to many is the rise […]
