Peace Oil, extra virgin olive oil, is from Palestinian farmers using traditional methods of the region, without the use of artificial pesticides and fertilizers. Taste the distinct, tangy flavor of fresh olives at the peak of their nutritional value. Exported by three fair trade groups, two of them Israeli, Peace Oil encourages grass-roots cooperation, building bridges between the two peoples.

Buy Peace Oil Online Here. This past holiday season, customers bought 983 bottles, just a tad short of our goal of 1000. As promised, a check for $500 was sent to Hope Flowers School in Bethlehem. Read more about this remarkable school and their story of courage in the face of adversity. Your support paid for a scholarship for one Palestinian youth to attend for one year. See more about Peace Oil 2007 sales. Also read the first quarter 2008 progress report.

Peace Oil Partners with Three Fair Trade Groups

Sindyanna of Galilee, a group of Arab and Jewish women, buys olive oil from Arab and some Jewish farmers in the Galil region of Israel. These women work to promote land preservation, environmental quality, women’s empowerment and labor rights. Sindyanna is certified by IFAT.

Green Action Israel, a grass-roots, “socio-ecological” change group, promotes fair trade in Israel. Avi Levi, Green Action’s fair trade advocate, works with farmers in three West Bank villages near Nablus to help them develop export markets.

Canaan Fair Trade, based in Jenin, Palestine, sells the delicacies of over 1700 farmers organized in informal cooperatives in Palestine and represented by the Palestine Fair Trade Association. Both Green Action Israel and Sindyanna follow the guidelines of the PFTA.