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#Repost @jewishvoiceforpeace

"On Tu Bishvat, we stand with Palestinians opposing the Israeli government’s systematic attacks on Palestinian trees. Tu Bishvat is known as the new year or birthday for trees—or the Jewish Earth Day. As anti-Zionist Jews, we are marking this Jewish holiday by opposing injustices perpetrated by Israeli apartheid and colonialism on Palestinian land.

The Israeli government enacts collective punishment on and erasure of Palestinians by uprooting native trees and substituting them with imported monocultures, causing harm to Palestinian livelihoods and culture. This erasure helps advance the goals of Zionism, the nationalist political ideology that led to the founding of the state of Israel premised on Jewish supremacy.

Israel’s apartheid government creates policies that make Palestinian life unbearable by design. Since 1967, the Israeli government has uprooted over 800,000 olive trees, and bulldozed hundreds of miles of agricultural land in Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Palestine rely on the fall olive harvest for their income, including more than 15% of working women. In Gaza over the past three months, the Israeli military has uprooted 70% of trees.

The destruction of Palestinian orchards and forests is an attempt to erase Palestinian history as well, attacking trees that live up to 15 human lifetimes. The Israeli government is targeting Palestinian’s connection to their homeland to fulfill Zionism’s lie of “a land without a people,” but Palestinians continue to resist Israeli land theft and destruction by cultivating their ancestral land and affirming that it was already occupied.

As Jews we stand against Zionism and the Israeli government’s manipulation of our traditions to facilitate land theft. On Tu Bishvat we honor our traditions of respecting the land and those who steward it, by standing with Palestinians. A free Palestine means cultivating a lush, tree filled land from the river to the sea."

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