As the destruction of Palestine and its people continues to run rampant, understanding ecocide and its operation in colonialism becomes ever more prescient. Two staple plants of Palestinian culture have been targeted by the Zionist regime for decades, eroding Palestinian culture and Palestinians’ economic health and autonomy. Destruction of orchards kept for thousands of years is part of a Zionist mission to eliminate evidence of Palestinian life and tending to the land in the area to support a narrative that the land was previously uninhabited, that existing peoples were simply transient, and that the establishment of a Jewish state in the area is a just reclamation of untended land. Read more