Palestinian Olive harvest in 2014, بدارين, Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0

Uprooting Olive Trees Can’t Uproot the Palestinians

Resisting a Zionist Obsession

Stan Cox

January 11, 2026

In November, the Jerusalem Post published an essay by Susannah Schild, the American-Israeli author of a book titled From Southerner to Settler: Unexpected Lessons from the Land of Israel. In it, she recalled the exhilarating experience of harvesting olives last fall at an Israeli national park located illegally in the Occupied West Bank: We spent […]

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Stan Cox is the author of seven books, including The Green New Deal and Beyond : Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can and Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World. He lives in Salina, Kansas.

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Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. Screengrab from US State Department video.

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