Dena Shunra

On Israeli campuses, Palestinians calling for peace confronted with calls for “death to the Arabs.”

“Without exaggeration and without even a drop of melodrama for enhancing the effect: we arrived at a medieval-style torture facility.”

Zionism’s cultural appropriation of indigenous Palestinian folklore and cuisine – such as hummus, falafel and maftoul – as “Israeli” has long irked Palestinians. Now, Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank are attempting to steal perhaps the most important symbol and source of economic sustenance for rural Palestinians: olive oil and olive culture.