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US Democrat Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit (www.reuters.com)
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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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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think they're settlers either.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Invaders

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

Unfortunately I think the term has been used that way historically.