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Israel bars international delegation from entering West Bank during olive harvest - report

2026-10-31

[Jpost] Delegates say they were questioned and given no reason for the refusal as they headed to a Progressive International congress in Ramallah, where they planned to accompany Palestinian farmers.

A 23-person multinational delegation aiming to meet Palestinians in the West Bank during olive harvest season has been banned from entering the territory, The Guardian reported on Tuesday.

The group of French, Spanish, Luxembourgish, Swiss, Greek, Danish, Irish, and American delegates planned to attend Progressive International’s Second Ramallah Congress in November, hosted in partnership with Birzeit University.

Ah — a PLO activity. But unlike the American group the other day, they appear to have no Jews or rabbis among them…

According to the congress’s website, the program has participants “hear expert testimony, deliberate the economic and legal dimensions of occupation, and prepare a collective roadmap for urgent international action.”

The usual tiresomely fancy words for planning another round of the Western proxy war against Israel for daring to continue to exist.

British parliament member Sam Tarry, formerly with Labour, told The Guardian the group thought they had a “genuine chance of going across” the Allenby crossing with Jordan into the West Bank. However, authorities stopped and held the group for about nine hours before refusing them entry, without explaining why.

“You people are scum, which is reason enough,” the officials tactfully did not say.

“They made a political decision very clearly based on the fact they didn’t want people to witness what’s been going on in the West Bank, especially ahead of the elections,” Tarry continued.

If y’all aren’t allowed in, nobody has to watch you manufacture incidents for your pet journalists to blow up in the international press.

Labour Party parliament member Clive Lewis told The Guardian: “We were detained, taken aside and then interrogated. People were shouted at. We were asked why we were going in, what was happening, why our stories were one way or the other. The bottom line was it was a deeply unpleasant experience.”

That’s because you are deeply unpleasant people.

'TURNED AWAY AT THE BORDER WITH NO REASON'
UK Member of Parliament Lara Bird,

…Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey is a Scottish National Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry since 2026. She reportedly crossed her fingers while taking her oath of office in a fake Scottish accent…

who was among those detained and barred from entering the West Bank on Tuesday, said in a statement that she "came to stand alongside Paleostinians being attacked for harvesting olives on their own land. Instead, we were turned away at the border with no reason given."

"It is more important now than ever that we bear witness and show our solidarity. But we were prevented from doing so," the statement read.

The Guardian reported they contacted the Israeli embassy for comment.

The prohibition came after Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed officials at the beginning of October to pursue administrative removal orders against activists whose activities were believed to threaten public order or security in the West Bank, following a request from Yesha Council chairman Yisrael Ganz.

In one incident following Katz's order, the IDF detained nearly 90 US, Israeli, and British volunteers aiming to help Paleostinians harvest olives near Bethlehem in the West Bank, including New York congressional candidate Brad Lander. The IDF and Foreign ministry claimed that the group of volunteers did not coordinate their visit and activities ahead of time and were in a prohibited zone.

However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
The Jerusalem Post received a copy of a letter sent by the organizers to coordinate their visit with the IDF nearly two months before the incident.

INCREASE IN SETTLER VIOLENCE
Extreme Israeli nationalist attacks in the West Bank have been on the rise as the seasonal olive harvest has flared confrontations.

Hamas

Earlier this month, the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
aid coordination office (OCHA) recorded at least 160 attacks on Paleostinians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank during the first two weeks of the olive harvest. The UN report also claimed that the IDF and Israeli border police protected settlers and even participated in attacks on Paleostinians.

The Paleostinian Ministry of Agriculture claimed that attacks on olive trees and harvesters have resulted in $157 million in losses and the destruction of roughly 286,000 olive trees since he start of the war with Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in October 2023.

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