1. Arboricide in Palestine - olive orchard destroyed
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Israeli settlers in Palestine's South Hebron Hills last week cut down an orchard of 36 olive trees, in the latest attack of a decades-long war against Palestinian culture and survival in which has seen the cutting, burning and bulldozing of over a million olive, fruit and nut trees.
2. Bethlehem: 'No matter how many olive trees they destroy, will will plant more!'
   The destruction of these ancient trees is the destruction of both the history and future of the Palestinian people.
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2014
   Since 1967, Israeli soldiers and 'settlers' in occupied Palestine have destroyed 800,000 olive trees in an attempt to force Palestinian farmers from their land, writes Megan Perry. 'Our response to this injustice will never be with violence, and we will never give up and leave.'
3. The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
4. Bottling peace in a jar
   Buying Palestinian olive oil is a tasty way to protest the tree uprootings of the occupation
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2007
   Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the Zatoun project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East.
5. The Case Against Israel
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
6. Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
7. International Solidarity Movement
   Resource Type: Website
   A Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.
8. Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2011
   Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and international aid & development organizations say.
9. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
   Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 2015
   This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2016
    Forests and trees
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    For countless centuries, forests, and the trees in them, have been seen as sources of life, livelihood, and spiritual meaning. For capitalism, however, forests are sites of extraction and profit-making, or obstacles in the way of 'development.' In this issue, we look at some of the threats to forests worldwide, and the ways in which people are resisting and defending the forests.
11. Palestinian farmers face settler terror
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
    
12. Palestinian olive farmers defy Israeli attacks for prized crop
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Israeli restrictions, attacks and intimidation continue to hinder the vital olive harvest but Palestinians persevere.
13. Zatoun
    Organization profile published 2008
    Resource Type: Organization
    Distributes olive oil from occupied Palestine and highlights the plight of Palestinian farmers and the destruction of their livelihood. Olive oil is a basic food which reminds us of our common humanity and the need for justice and peace. Web site: http://www.zatoun.com.
14. Zatoun
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
15. Zatoun: Bridge-Builder at a Crucial Time
    What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing selling olive oil from Palestine?
    Resource Type: Article
    Working for Zatoun has been one of the most sustainable activisms that I have ever done.

Experts on Olive Trees in the Sources Directory

1. Zatoun