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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Jordan bans Palestinian olive oil, even from Palestinian visitors

Jordan has banned Palestinian visitors from bringing any olive oil into the kingdom - even a token bottle as a gift.The Jordanian crossings officials informed the Palestinian General Administration of Borders and Crossings that as of Tuesday of this week, Palestinians cannot bring any olive oil through the Allenby Bridge crossing to Jordan, even small quantities.Jordan already...

Fisking @Oxfam: How important is the Palestinian olive harvest to its economy, and how much damage do "settlers" cause?

Oxfam put out this infographic:Is the olive harvest season essential to the Palestinian economy?Let's look at some of the statistics.How important is agriculture to the Palestinian economy? In 2016, agriculture contributed 3.16% of the Palestinian GDP. Which means that the olive harvest contributes less than one percent of the Palestinian economy.If Oxfam cares about...

Jewish settlers again accused of chopping down olive trees - on Shabbat

Wafa and a whole bunch of other Arab sources report:Settlers cut, today, Saturday, about 30 olive trees from Qaryut lands, south of Nablus.The official in charge of the settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas, told "Wafa" that settlers cut down about 30 olive trees in the town's lands, owned by Bilal Mahmoud Raja.As I have shown before, Ghassan Daghlas is...

"Pay for Slay" pays triple the total amount of olive oil revenue for Palestinians

This is the time of the year of the Palestinian olive harvest, and there are lots of stories and photos about how critical this time of year is to the Palestinian economy. Most of the olives are converted to olive oil.How much is the annual olive oil yield in the West Bank? According to UN-OCHA, it is between $110 and $120 million a year. Articles try to say how critical...

Palestinians again lie about "settlers cutting down olive trees" on the Sabbath

Palestinian media has dozens of stories about "Jewish settlers" cutting down some 40 olive trees in Al Mughayir, north of Ramallah. The "settlers" were said to come from nearby Shiloh - on Saturday morning. Shiloh is a religious Jewish community, and its residents wouldn't cut down trees on the Sabbath. (Cutting down 40 olive trees would take a great deal of time and effort.) Not...

Oh, by the way: Palestinians had a record olive crop in 2019

From OCHA: Record yield reported from 2019 olive harvestThere are over 10 million olive trees in the West Bank, on which between 80,000 to 100,000 families rely for their income, including large numbers of unskilled laborers and more than 15 per cent of working women. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the olive oil yield for the 2019 harvest, which took place between September and November, is estimated to be 27,000...

More bogus claims of "settlers" cutting down Palestinian trees - on Shabbat

The official Palestinian Wafa news agency says: Settlers continued for the third day in a row, cutting down trees in the lands of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem , raising the number of trees that were targeted cutting to 780 trees.The youth activist in Al-Khader, Emad Da`dou, told our correspondent that today, Saturday, the settlers cut down 200 vine trees in the "Fagur"...

Elder gets results, sort of (Haaretz edition)

In September, Haaretz' Gideon Levy and Alex Levac wrote an article saying that Israel was uprooting "hundreds" of olive trees, right before harvest! Levac took a photo of one of them. Note the caption. Regavim told me the entire story was bogus, and the trees that were uprooted were acacia saligna (coojong.)The acacias are a pest plant, hat spread quickly, planted...

Gideon Levy's fake olive trees in Haaretz

Gideon Levy in Haaretz writes about how cruel Israelis are destroying Palestinian olive trees, seemingly for no other reason but to persecute their owners: Two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, on Tuesday last week, his intention to annex the Jordan Valley after the election, forces of the Civil Administration carried out yet another brutal operation...

"Progressives" feel betrayed by Israelis visiting Cuba (plus has Israel uprooted 800,000 olive trees?)

Take out the violins. From Mondoweiss: Palestinian solidarity activists in North America are accustomed to being abandoned by many of their “progressive allies”, be it church officials or municipal councils or politicians. This is the sad reality of working in today’s political landscape, where opportunism runs rampant and the pro-Israel lobby has often succeeded in dominating...

Today's fake news from the Palestinian Authority

How Arab newspapers illustrate "Jewish settlers" The official Wafa news agency has another scoop courtesy of Ghassan Daghlas, the man who is literally paid by the Palestinian Authority itself to make up lies about Jewish settler activity and yet gets quoted by major news sources dozens of times a year even though he never backs up his accusations with any actual evidence. This...

Once again, religious Jews accused of cutting down olive trees - on Shabbat

From Ma'an: Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Journalist Hani Fanun, whose family owns the trees, said his family went to harvest olives on their land in the Wadi al-Hariq area of Nahalin, and found that settlers from the...

"Settlers bulldozed olive trees" - on Shabbat

From IMEMC: A group of colonialist Israeli settlers, driving a number of bulldozers, invaded earlier Saturday Palestinian orchards belonging to residents of Deir Estia village, northwest of the central West Bank district of Salfit, and uprooted more than 80 olive trees. Local villagers said the settlers uprooted the olive trees in order to expand a bypass road, leading...

Amazing how no one ever has a cell phone when "settlers chop down trees"

From Ma'an: Israeli settlers chopped down more than 70 olive trees between the towns of Yasuf and Jammain in the northern West Bank districts of Salfit and Nablus on Monday. Palestinian farmers said the trees, which lay close to the illegal Israeli settlements of Ariel and Taffuh, had been cut down using chainsaws. A local, Khalid Maali, said that because the land lay close...

Palestinians accuse religious Jews of uprooting olive trees - on Shabbat

From Ma'an: Israeli settlers on Saturday destroyed more than 1,000 olive trees near the village of al-Shuyukh north of Hebron, in the third such attack on the villagers' livelihood in recent memory. Local activist Ahmad al-Halayqa told Ma'an that Israelis from the nearby settlement of Asfar, also known as Metzad, attacked the village and destroyed 1,200 trees. He said...

More hypocrisy and lies from the BDS crowd. Pretty funny, actually.

Another day, another new initiative to boycott Israel: Activists are gearing up for a day of action on 9 February that will target Israeli agricultural export companies such as Mehadrin and Hadakalim over their role in Israeli settlements and the dispossession of Palestinian farmers. In a statement titled “Farming Injustice” released earlier this month, all major Palestinian agricultural organizations called for “the launching of worldwide campaigns...

The annual "settlers uproot olive trees" libel

From Ma'an, today: Dozens of Israeli settlers on Sunday uprooted over 400 Palestinian-owned olive trees near Nablus in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said. And last week: Israeli settlers uprooted over 500 olive and fig trees in Deir Istiya village in Salfit on Monday morning, witnesses said. As usual, there are no photos of these "uprooted" trees. Based on the research that Yisrael Medad did, plus the comments on...

Left wing activists caught cutting down Arab olive trees

From YNet: Arabs and leftist activists staged an attack on Palestinian fields in a bid to accuse settlers of vandalism, an organization that claims to have documented the incident says. Tazpit Unit [is] an organization identified with the settlers which documents news events in the territories. Tazpit says that these staged attacks were meant to falsely accuse settlers of...

Arabs prune olive trees, claim "settlers" cut them down

From Ma'an: On Saturday morning, Salima Ewes, 73, and her family found 40 olive trees had been cut down in their field in the northern West Bank village of Al-Lubban Ash-Sharqiya, southwest of Nablus city. Akram Jamil Uweis said his family headed to their field to harvest olives, and found their trees destroyed. He said the family believed residents of the nearby illegal...

A more subtle form of news photo bias

There are a number of countries that grow and harvest olives. Greece, Jordan, the US, Israel and Chile all market their olive products. In 2005, seven countries accounted for 90% of all olive oil production, including Spain, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia. But if you search for photos of "olives" in Daylife, which aggregates wire service photos from AP,...