US Democrat Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit (www.reuters.com)
from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to world@lemmy.world on 11 Jul 15:12
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“We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it,” said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of ​Representatives.

“And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and ​the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group ​of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

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zbyte64@awful.systems on 11 Jul 15:33 next collapse

This is what I expect our leaders to do. People with far less privilege have been putting their lives on the line while congressional chuckle fucks write stern letters.

ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml on 11 Jul 16:26 collapse

I don’t agree with all his positions, and he does take a lot of money from big tech, but his heart is absolutely in the right place. He is a real public servant.

Maeve@kbin.earth on 11 Jul 16:13 next collapse

Zionist detained by Zionist is pretty funny, NGL. 😂

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Jul 16:34 collapse

“If you’re unwilling to ​speak up for Palestinian ⁠human rights, if you’re unwilling to speak up against the genocide in Gaza, the apartheid in the West Bank, then you are morally compromised,” Khanna said.

Ah yes, classic Zionist rhetoric

doben@lemmy.ml on 11 Jul 17:18 next collapse

Yes, classic liberal Zionist rhetoric.

Is the Democratic Party no longer a pro Israel party?

We’re a party that believes in two states and peace. (…) Why aren’t we doing the Arab Peace Plan? Two states, you have a Palestinian state, which is demilitarized, and an Israeli state. That’s what we’re for, we should be for peace and we should be for justice in this region. (…) And yes, we need a secure Israel, but not an Israel led by Netanyahu, who killed 70.000 people in Gaza. (…) I’m for the Iron Dome technology, (…) I’m glad Israel has it.

He’s towing the party line, and the Democratic Party is very much a Zionist organisation. He doesn’t like the optics of the genocide, blames the current regime and complains about the lost support of the younger generation and that a foreign prime minister sits in the holy US-American situation room, as only US-American presidents decide which war crimes (in the name of the USA) are to be made. He what’s to reduce open pro Israel spending, as he’s advocating America First ideology.

He’s supporting the Zionist project. Stop coping.

Maeve@kbin.earth on 11 Jul 17:22 next collapse

This is why people don't leave their abusers. They keep listening to what they say, instead of watching what they do.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Jul 17:25 collapse

We could use more ‘Zionists’ that denounce genocide, apartheid, and go to Palestine to draw attention to the issue 🤷‍♂️ I’m not impressed by you trotting out the party position and blaming it on him personally, especially when he’s specifically calling out his own party in the article I guess you didn’t read. What has he said and done that’s Zionist?

Maeve@kbin.earth on 11 Jul 17:19 collapse

He stopped taking naked aipac money and is now taking it from a superpac that hides it.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 11 Jul 17:25 collapse

Specific names and amounts?

wheezy@lemmy.ml on 11 Jul 17:06 collapse

US Congressman KIDNAPPED by Israeli supported terrorists in the West Bank.

God I hate these fucking passive language titles that are only ever used to describe Israeli’s crimes.