It was a normal morning during the autumn olive harvest. On a hillside northeast of Ramallah, on November 8, a group of roughly 15 or 20 Palestinians from the village of Deir Jarir were picking dark olives, the most important agricultural product in the occupied West Bank, from low, young trees.With them were volunteers from the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights, along with Rabbi Arik Ascherman, the leader of Torat Tzedek, a group whose name translates to “Torah of Justice.” They’d come to help with the harvest and to…
