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(RNS) — An American rabbi leading a delegation of Jews traveling to the West Bank to help Palestinians harvest their olives was denied entry at Israel’s airport on Sunday (Oct. 25) and put on a plane back to the United States.

It was another episode in an embattled Palestinian olive harvest. Just last week, Brad Lander, a Democratic House nominee in New York City, was detained in the West Bank by the Israeli military while he participated in an international delegation to harvest olives alongside Palestinian farmers. Earlier this month, a Washington Post photographer was attacked by Israeli settlers in an olive picking location near Ramallah.

Rabbi Alissa Wise, director of Rabbis for Ceasefire, was stopped by border control at Ben Gurion International Airport and denied entry.…