Posted on 07/11/2026 5:47:51 PM PDT by RandFan
The US congressman Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained him during a visit to the Israel-occupied West Bank recently, describing the experience as a first-hand view of the realities faced by Palestinians living under occupation.
In an interview with Reuters on Thursday from a Palestinian village, the progressive US House Democrat from California said his detention happened the previous day while his delegation visited an area of the southern West Bank that has experienced repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.
Khanna recounted how settlers carrying US-made M4 rifles surrounded the group’s van.
“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,” Khanna said.
Referring to the Israel Defense Forces, which are funded in part by US military aid, Khanna continued: “And these hoodlums … 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 also told Reuters: “I saw the arrogance in the eyes of those settlers, 21- and 22-year-olds with guns, laughing that they had detained us, the arrogance of those young IDF soldiers that my tax dollars are funding – having no respect for the fact that they were detaining Americans, no respect that there was an American congressperson in that bus, and laughing when our translator told them that there are Americans there and the American embassy is concerned.”
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I’m surprised they didn’t with all their f****** bloodlust
There were no Americans there, just some commiecrats.
I hope you are being sarcastic, buit even then, it’s in poor taste.
Commies deserve that treatment.
So he got the freedom flotilla treatment.
Stupid f*ck. You’re lucky that’s all that happened to you.
Lock him up whether it’s true or not.
I guess they’re concerned after Oct 7. I would be. Glad they had weapons.
Who lies more, a DemocRAT or a DemocRAT?
The IDF should have thrown him into Gaza and let Hamas have some fun with him, after all he and Hamas are on the same team
He’s full of crap. If it was true his mouth would have got him shot.
shades of Vanessa Redgrave, Batman!
“no respect that there was an American congressperson in that bus,”
Hey Guardian, American Congress members are hated by most regardless of the side of the aisle and Khanna fits right in with the other garbage humans. Worry about your own crappy country.
US congressman Ro Khanna
Who has no authority nor anything else in Israeli.
so, who ‘gives a rat’s, behind what he thinks or did.
Beat me to it.
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