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Americans are going to the West Bank to protect this year’s olive harvest

Protect The Harvest
courtesy of Protect the Harvest coalition
Protect The Harvest

The annual olive harvest is beginning in the Palestinian territory on the West Bank. Since the October 7th massacres in 2023, violence by Jewish settlers in the West Bank has been escalating and this year the yearly effort by allies of the Palestinians to protect the olive harvest has grown. More than $90 thousand has been raised on-line for hundreds of American volunteers who are going to Israel to help pick olives and protect Palestinian farmers.

WBGO’s Jon Kalish has the story…

Protect The Harvest
courtesy of Protect the Harvest coalition
Protect The Harvest

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.