The ecology of dispossession

JVL Introduction

We provide below an overview of the issues covered by New York based environmental and human rights activist, Diana Kruzman who looks at how ecology has been weaponised in pursuit of the Zionist project.

WE also provide some information about Irus Braverman’s 2003 book Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel on which Kruzman draws.

The overall message is clear: ecological and environmental justifications are an essential part of Israel’s settler-colonial regime, actively deployed in the ongoing dispossession of the Palestinians.

This article was originally published by Jewish Currents on Thu 9 Jul 2026. Read the original here.