Zaytoun were pleased to see that The Times ethical Christmas present guide has listed Zaytoun olive oil saying: “Another nail in the coffin of artery-blocking butter is Palestinian olive oil from Zaytoun, a not-for-profit company that supports Palestinian farming co-operatives in the West Bank.”
We’d like to thank Global Voices Online for publicising our Journal entries whilst in Palestine. Global Voices Online is an initiative by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at the Harvard Law School. GVO tracks and calls attention to conversations and points of view around the world from bloggers described as ‘bridge bloggers’, people…
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Open Bethlehem Press Release Pope Benedict – First New Citizen of Bethlehem President Abbas comments on presentation of passport His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has become the first new citizen of Bethlehem, having been presented with a Bethlehem passport by the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, in a meeting at the Vatican on Saturday 3 December.…
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An entry from one of Zaytoun’s distributors: In November, a small group of Palestinians from Nablus came on a cultural visit to Dundee, the nearest city to my home area. This was quite a historic occasion as it was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dundee and Nablus being twin cities. The four delegates stayed for several…
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Under 17′s form over 50% of the population here & I’ve been quite disturbed by the many accounts of arrest and torture of Palestinian children whilst here. My time spent in the village of Marda and elsewhere a tangible sense of restlesness, internalised anger & alienation was evident amongst children. This was new, harvest teams…
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29 November Congress Centre will serve lunch inspired by the tastes and ingredients of Palestine and the Middle East (£3.50 for non-TUC staff) between 1200 -1400. Great Russell St. 2/3 December ? World Fair @ The Camden Centre http://www.worldfair.org.uk/index.html 5 December Oxfam’s Fairtrade Market in Oxford 11am – 3pm Details on how to get to…
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One afternoon whilst the Zaytoun harvest team were picking olives high up on the steep rocky hills of Marda we were ordered to, by someone on a loudspeaker at the bottom, to move along 100 metres as they were about to blow up a section of the hill in 10 minutes ! In disbelief we…
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Marda was one of the villages where the Zaytoun harvest team supported farmers harvesting their olives. It’s a beautiful village with a natural spring both dating back to Roman times. The village lies in the shadow of West Banks largest Israeli settlement, Ariel, making it difficult & dangerous for farmers to tend to their trees…
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Nablus is famous for its traditional olive soap industry which dates back many centuries. The soap is produced in stunning old buildings with exquisite architectural detail and the crumbling facade betraying its historical grandeur. A disused Olive soap house in the centre of Nablus’s old city Nablus’s olive soap contains over 70% olive oil and…
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School children in the Balata Refuge camp, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank by population. It has three schools run by the United Nation’s agency UNRWA. Whilst in Nablus i met with Abdul Hakim from Project Hope, a non-profit volunteer organization based in nablus. Project hope has led a pioneering effort to bring…
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