Why West Bank olive harvest has become flashpoint for settler violence

LONDON/CHICAGO: The annual olive harvest is a time when Palestinian farmers return to their groves, often working land that has sustained their families for generations. But across the occupied West Bank, the harvest has increasingly brought the threat of settler violence and, this year, renewed international scrutiny. Brad Lander, a New York Democrat expected to win a seat in the US House of Representatives next month, experienced that tension firsthand when Israeli forces briefly detained him

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