Israel bans travel for Brad Lander after detention in occupied West Bank

Today, we're harvesting olives in a field that had not been harvested since October 7th. Let's call it a settlement. Settlement, security, home, military, and the police. I'm used to it. The main story I come home with is not the story of my detention or the revocation of my travel authorization. The main story I come home with is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank, which I just saw with my own eyes. Some people think of that as like a handful of hilltop youth, of violent settlers. But it's much more coordinated than that. In every place I saw how government policy and how the actions of the Israeli military are aligned with the violence of the settlers to push Palestinians off their land and prevent them harvesting their olive groves to demolish their homes. I would like to be able to go back and continue to work with the people that I met last week and others toward a resolution that will involve You know, international law and Palestinian human rights and then a path to peace that's grounded in dignity and freedom and self-determination for both peoples. My travel authorization doesn't matter to those things, but it is one more sign of a government using every tool to deny Palestinians the possibility of living lives of dignity.