<p>About 80 US, Israeli and British volunteers held near Nahalin in West Bank and taken to police station</p><p>The Israeli military has detained about 80 US, Israeli and British volunteers helping Palestinians harvest olives near Bethlehem, including the New York Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander, several rabbis and Israel’s former deputy attorney general.</p><p>“I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis and volunteers,” Lander <a href="https://x.com/bradlander/status/2112853707784118403">posted from a bus</a> taking him to a police station. “We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nahalin in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/israeli-military-detains-brad-lander-rabbis-west-bank-olive-harvest">Continue reading...</a>
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Israeli military detains US politician Brad Lander and rabbis at olive harvest
<p>About 80 US, Israeli and British volunteers held near Nahalin in West Bank and taken to police station</p><p>The Israeli military has detained about 80 US, Israeli and British volunteers helping Palestinians harvest olives near Bethlehem, including the New York Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander, several rabbis and Israel’s former deputy attorney general.</p><p>“I’ve been detained by the IDF, along with a group of rabbis and volunteers,” Lander <a href="https://x.com/bradlander/status/2112853707784118403">posted from a bus</a> taking him to a police station. “We were simply harvesting olives in a grove near Nahalin in the West Bank. The occupation is a crime under international law. Harvesting olives isn’t a crime under any law I know.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/21/israeli-military-detains-brad-lander-rabbis-west-bank-olive-harvest">Continue reading...</a>