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Happening now: Barbara Gaffin, a Friend of Standing Together from Boston, was detained by Israeli police after joining around 80 other activists near Nahalin, west of Bethlehem, to provide a peaceful protective presence for Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest. Together with Rabbis for Human Rights and other organizers, they were helping farmers access olive groves they had been unable to reach for three years, since October 7, and harvest their olives in the face of settler terror. The volunteers arrived early Wednesday and harvested for about two hours before Israeli forces arrived and declared the area a closed military zone for 24 hours. Although the volunteers agreed to leave, soldiers detained everyone present and photographed their identity cards and passports.  There is nothing threatening about people coming together to help Palestinian farmers pick their olives. But even this peaceful act of solidarity is met with detention by Israeli authorities. They want Palestinian communities isolated and those who stand with them intimidated. We, Jews and Palestinians, will keep showing up for each other, protecting the harvest and refusing to let settler terror decide who gets to stay on their land.

NOW IN JERUSALEM: For the second day in a row, Standing Together student activists prevented a member of Ben-Gvir’s party from speaking at a campus event! There is no room for fascism! 1/3