A Palestinian call for international activists and observers to join the 2025 olive harvest this October. Under the shadow of the ever-worsening Israeli genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank is not a foreboding future but the reality of our time. But Palestine resists! This year’s olive harvest will be a do-or-die moment of Palestinian resilience and defiance against organized Israeli aggression. This October, come stand with Palestinian farmers and activists. Join the fight in Palestine for land, freedom and return!
The Zaytoun2025 campaign is a Palestinian initiative by a coalition of Palestinian organizations, groups and activists, organizing grassroots Palestinian support for threatened communities and farmers during the harvest, mixing movement-building with mutual aid to defend our communities and defy Israel’s relentless efforts to expel us from our lands and confine us into ever-shrinking ghettos.
We call on international activists and observers to join hands with Palestinian activists in the effort to support and protect the harvest and strengthen Palestinian organizing and mobilization.
The olive harvest is a cornerstone of Palestinian culture, economy, agriculture, and of holding on to the land against all odds. But it is also the target of Israeli repression and state violence, through both its military and settler militias. Year after year, farmers are harassed and attacked, prevented from accessing their groves and barred from their livelihood. Year after year, they persist, undeterred.
Since October 7, Israeli aggression has rendered the olive harvest near impossible. Recent months have been some of the most violent ones against Palestinians. As Israel continues to apply the strategies of dispossession it employs since the Nakba – which has led to the mass expulsion of our people in 1948 – we resist lynchings, summary executions and armed assaults against our people. We hold on to our land, but international solidarity and protection is more crucial now than ever.
The deadline the UN General Assembly has given Israel to end its illegal occupation expires on September 18, 2025. For Israel, this will serve as another reason to intensify its onslaught during this year’s olive harvest. But for us, it will be a moment to escalate efforts to shatter Israel’s impunity and break the global ties of complicity.
By joining the olive harvest, or organizing observer missions, you can support Palestinian resilience and raise awareness about the urgency to ensure states and corporations end all ties with Israeli crimes.
Come stand side by side with Palestinians to defeat Israeli colonial apartheid, illegal occupation and genocide!
The Coordination Committee for Popular Action has advocated for this call.
Volunteers interested in coming to Palestine to join the olive harvest are encouraged to do so with one of the following organization: The International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
Those interested in organizing high profile visits and learning/observer missions are encouraged to be in touch with The Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign by emailing our Communications Coordinator salma@stopthewall.org