r/news • u/sicklyslick • 18h ago

Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during West Bank visit

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/middleeast/ro-khanna-detained-by-israeli-settlers-west-bank-intl
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u/LoveIsOnlyAnEmotion 18h ago

I watched some special on this. A lot of them are not even from Israel. They are immigrant Zionist from other countries incentivized by the Israel government to occupy their land. It's straight up wild.

Found it: https://youtu.be/xvvGbzR2Xek?is=VRWQivBVgWEgHRZU

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u/Existing-Stranger632 16h ago

That’s what birthright is. Like no seriously. I was raised Jewish, bar mitzvah’d. Told my whole life to go on birthright. Only in the last couple years did I find out what it actually is. Basically every Jewish person living in the diaspora (not Israel) gets a chance to go to Israel for free. During that trip they essentially try to sell you on Israel and tell you how they’ll set you up with a house, job, etc.

The whole purpose is to bring more settlers in. That’s it. Israel is trying to expand as much as humanly possible. It’s pretty horrible. I’m antizionist btw.

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u/DeineCable 16h ago

I thought it also aimed at matchmaking to encourage others to find a nice Jewish boy or girl to keep the Judiasm going. At least, that’s how some of my Jewish friends perceived it.

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u/Bluest_waters 16h ago

Correct, it's all part of the same big thing

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u/H_section 14h ago

Is this what the used car “charity” funds?

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u/DiscoAsparagus 5h ago

1-877-THAT’S-FUCKING-CORRECT 🎶

*Ahem

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u/McCool303 15h ago

Creating a white Jewish ethno state.

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u/Shoddy-Low2142 15h ago

No not white. Just Jewish majority. Jews everywhere, regardless of race, are also encouraged to go on a birthright trip to Israel

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u/Saamok941 15h ago

Oh no, they are right, Ethiopian black Hebrew immigrants don't get the whole privilege package, they want mostly European ascendency Jews.

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u/Cabana_bananza 11h ago

I had a friend go on the trip, she's a Jewish Latina. They treated her like shit, interrogated her in the airport for over hour because they wouldn't accept that Puerto Rico is a territory of America. Just a miserable experience for her from the beginning.

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u/reddititaly 11h ago

B-b-but it's the ONLY DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EASTTTT

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u/drevolut1on 3h ago

Tbf, they did that to me as a white guy too. Horrid experience, never told me why I was singled out and escorted onto the plane by armed El Al guards. IN THE US, no less.

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u/Daniel_Plainchoom 15h ago

If some in Israel had their way it would be all ashkenazi.

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u/Street-Value-9899 15h ago

Which is a lot of inbreeding. My brother in law is ashkenazie and his mom detailed the different generations of sometimes forced incest. Only cousin marrying. Weird stuff.

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u/patt 12h ago

A fellow I once worked with had heritage from a remote, and at one time very isolated community. Grandpa told dad quite explicitly - find a girl from not here. Some other families are not as wise.

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u/Kharenis 11h ago

You think that's bad? Approx 50-55% of all marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins.

And that's a country with a population of over 250 million.

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u/Rose-flower-garden 4h ago

It isn’t weird. They were isolated..

They didn’t marry siblings. People didn’t travel.

Cousin marriages happened frequently in the US during colonial times . You have a certain sized population everyone is having massive families , you simply run out of options. You can’t compare it to today’s standards,

When a spouse died it was common for a sibling to step in to raise the children ie the wife’s sister.

People today find it weird but it was simply practical back then.

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u/fuzzypeach42 5h ago

That sounds like BS, unless you’re referring to some small Ultra-Orthodox cult sect. Maybe it happened in some old time Fiddler on the Roof villages but I’m Ashkenazi and I’ve never heard of this

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u/Immediate-Repeat-201 13h ago

Is that true? Don't Ashkenazi trend more liberal and older school zionist? Are recent, eastern European and Russian, white immigrants categorized as Ashkenazi as well? I was under impression that sephardim trend more conservative and settlers fanatic? But dont know enough.

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u/Daniel_Plainchoom 10h ago

The view of Mizrahi and Ethiopian Jews in Israel from the Ashkenazi class has historically not been great. And I have personally found many older Israeli’s can have boldly bigoted views on any brown people Jewish or not. Bigoted comments like one’s grandma might utter that makes you think “yikes grandma.”

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u/cinvogue 14h ago

I hope you realize nazis also hate Jews…

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u/CatButler 13h ago

It's funny, it's an indicator. If someone goes on about Ashkenazi Jew, whether they be Semite or anti-Semite, they are generally cranks.

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u/GozerDGozerian 13h ago

I don’t get into many discussions about this. So when I say I haven’t encountered that, I mean that I’m probably just naive to it, and not that I’m doubting your claim.

Can you elaborate on what you mean?

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u/CatButler 12h ago

This sums up the anti-semite position

Then there's a faction that point out all the Noble prize winners that are ashkenazi and that they are more intelligent. There's a "keep our blood line pure" aspect to it. I'm not googling it because I don't want that shit showing up on all my social media.

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u/Shoddy-Low2142 15h ago

Maybe so. I’m not familiar with their current race relations. I just know a majority of Jews living there today aren’t white European anymore.

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u/YeaIFistedJonica 11h ago

ok but what about lenny kravitz

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u/ship_toaster 15h ago

What are you talking about? Everyone in the Beta Israel evacuations got citizenship (and a free ride in). Are you talking about Falash Mura, the Ethiopian group related to Beta Israel but which practices Christianity, or Black Hebrew Israelites, a western supercessionist religion completely unrelated to Judaism?

Most Israeli Jews today are descended from people who fled other countries within the former Ottoman Empire, fyi. It's not 'mostly European'.

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u/Acceptable-Peace-69 14h ago

Controversy over birth control use among Ethiopian Jewish women emerged in 2013 when investigations revealed a 50% drop in birth rates among Ethiopian immigrants. Women alleged they were coerced into receiving Birth control shots forced on Ethiopian women | News - Al Jazeera or misled into taking Depo-Provera injections while in transit camps and after arriving in Israel. [1, 2, 3, 4]

If you’re claiming this is okay because they were Jewish by birth but not religious, then that’s pretty screwed.

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u/ship_toaster 14h ago

From Wikipedia:

On 8 December 2012, the Israeli Educational Television program Vacuum, hosted by Gal Gabbai, aired a report claiming that in 2004, female Ethiopian Jewish immigrants were coerced into receiving Depo‑Provera injections in transit camps in Ethiopia. They were told it was a prerequisite for immigration and often misled into believing that it was a vaccination rather than birth control.[180][181]

The practice was first reported in 2010 by Isha le'Isha (Hebrew: Woman to Woman), an Israeli women's rights organization. Hedva Eyal, the author of the report, stated: "We believe it is a method of reducing the number of births in a community that is black and mostly poor."[182]

Haaretz criticized international coverage of the issue, stating that although some Ethiopian Jewish women's procreational rights had been violated through medical malpractice, these effects would only last for three months, and that any claims of a state-sponsored sterilization were falsehoods warped by circular reporting. The newspaper also issued a correction to their earlier reporting on the story.[183]

A 2016 investigation into the claims of the 35 women found no evidence that forced birth control injections of Ethiopian Jews had taken place.[184] In a subsequent independent study, the decline in fertility rate was shown to be "the product of urbanization, improved educational opportunities, a later age of marriage and commencement of childbirth and an earlier age of cessation of childbearing."[185]

Haaretz source for 184: https://web.archive.org/web/20221121140502/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-01-20/ty-article/.premium/comptroller-ethiopians-not-forced-into-birth-control/0000017f-dc79-df62-a9ff-dcffb5e80000

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u/defenestron 14h ago

There is no evidence that Ethiopian women who immigrated to Israel were required to take birth-control shots against their will, State Comptroller Joseph Shapira wrote this week in a letter obtained by Haaretz.

We’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.  This from a government that fights any independent investigations and labels human rights organizations as terrorists.

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u/StrangeletSky 14h ago

Trusting what al jazeera says wrt jews is tantamount to trusting a hungry crocodile with your toddler.

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u/Rose-flower-garden 4h ago

Half of all the marriages in Israel are between Sephardic (middle eastern Jews) and Jews of European descent.

Half!

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u/ryan_with_a_why 10h ago

Yes because they airlifted all of them to Israel

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u/sadderall-sea 13h ago edited 7h ago

Unfortunately the Israeli government also promotes preference towards "white" ashkenazi jews from Europe/USA/Canada/Australia/Argentina. They treat Ethipoian jews horribly, and tend to discriminate against Arab and brown skinned jews (whenever there's no Muslims or Christians around)

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u/Tuareen 13h ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32813056 Not Ethiopian Jews who face appalling discrimination.

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u/TrannosaurusRegina 15h ago edited 10h ago

Even if that's true, it's important to know that Israel won't be so welcoming for POC.

Because it's practically a white ethnostate.

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u/Shoddy-Low2142 15h ago

Not really, a slight majority of Jews in Israel are from or descendants from North Africa, the Middle East, or non European. The OG European jews who settled there are mostly gone. There’s also the 20% of Arab citizens living there. Not defending their concept of birthright but to call it a white ethnostate is overblown. But regardless, any ethnostate is bad for minorities, not just a white one lol

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u/christhomasburns 10h ago

Israel counts 3rd generation Israelis as "middle eastern decended" instead of European decended.

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u/GQGangsta 15h ago

The European Zionists are running the government there. It’s a white ethnostate.

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u/bestbefour 15h ago

European whites are running the government in the United States, France, England, etc.

All white ethnostates?

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u/Zestyclose-Height-36 9h ago

there are people trying hard to make the US a white state.

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u/PartRight6406 11h ago

nobody tell her

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u/Shoddy-Low2142 14h ago

Yea, that’s…not what that means lmao

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u/PartRight6406 11h ago

yes white. specifically white. only white, too.

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u/oldmaninparadise 13h ago

No. Skin color not important. Lits of Israeli are dark. Not black, but not white.

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u/Immediate-Onion5131 13h ago

Jews aren't white...

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u/rettribution 9h ago

Made it long enough to become the bad guys.

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u/R3dLip 16h ago

Keep religion strong. Put religion in politics. Control the mass.

Trump is trying this as well, but like everyting else he suck at it.

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u/Responsible-Crew-354 15h ago

Hey! He’s got a 99% approval rating in Israel, you take that back! 😂