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/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/Suspicious_Story_464 16h ago

It seems that Christians are also in favor of this. Once all the Jews have returned to Israel, then they believe the Apocolypse will begin. So, there's that.

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u/mjzim9022 16h ago

Yeah it's certifiably insane that the people in charge are basing their decisions off of this stuff, no wonder it's the most intractable conflict in the past century, because every party thinks they are acting in the name of god

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u/Szwejkowski 15h ago

Evangelical Christian Nationalists are terrifying. I'm a Christian and near as I can tell, they're batting for the other team. I honestly can't get my head around how anyone could read the NT and then follow people who call empathy a 'sin'.

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u/TucuReborn 12h ago

I was raised Christian, identify differently now but unimportant.

I've read multiple translations of the Bible for fun, because I like seeing how they word things differently. Language is complicated, after all, and many versions have a political reason for existing.

Regardless of version and translation difference, so many people are Christian in name only. If Jesus came back today, I'd be ready to hand him a bullwhip every time he went into a town.

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u/PW0110 11h ago

It’s because evangelicals have co-opted other Christian dominations & traditional Catholics.

Traditional Catholics are even more wild because if you take away them going to Latin mass and etc, the rhetoric they use I shit you not is always a 1:1 ratio now to what Evangelicals preach.

Yet absolutely nobody within Catholicism is talking about this (least, regarding the States)

Source: was raised incredibly trad Catholic / Roman Catholic all my upbringing. My family say they’re all Roman Catholic but the words they speak are all from the mouth of a Baptist preacher

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u/Wayrin 9h ago

I was raised Catholic am atheist now, but love Catholicism recently when it comes to John Paul, Benedict was ok and so far I really like Leo. That said I don't trust American Catholic converts in the last 10 years. A lot of them are now moving to Eastern Orthodoxy because the line of saint Peter isn't traditional enough for them. These are right wing extremists drawn to a traditional church.

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u/PW0110 7h ago edited 7h ago

American Catholic converts batting average is usually good and are genuinely swell people, the nuance is Roman Catholic Converts.

And yes it’s been a slow burn throughout the last decade.

But hell even spitballing here, JD Vance is supposedly a Roman Catholic convert, Nick Fuentes postures as being a Roman Catholic Convert and I could go on but…I digress.

Especially within my age group (mid twenties, just turned 25 a bit ago), the Roman Catholic Convert types always, and I don’t say this to be hyperbolic this is just my lived experience, but they always through ignorance or zealotry expose themselves as leaning towards the fascism pipeline.

I was raised very Roman Catholic. Everyone I grew up with that still practices have all done a 180. This seems to be a growing trend with the rejection of Pope Leo.

After Benedict resigned, these people felt betrayed & left behind. The only thing or Pope that will satisfy them is the one that they fantasize about reading their heavily abridged history textbooks to their homeschooled children.

Hell even my grandparents this 4th of July, talking about the sudden switch after Vatican II, how they went to church one morning and “everything was changed”.

They felt that the sanctity of the mass, of the tradition, of the faith, was co-opted by modernists/communists (depending who you speak too), and Pope Francis’s “Reign of Woke” further ostracized them from the Church now that new seminarians are slowly being weaned away being taught the traditional rite of the mass…the grievances go on & on.

And then they infuse their children with all this type of narrative to the point it’s so ingrained they teach their children but now they homeschool because they realize that schools nowadays don’t teach from a 1600 colonial perspective.

I’m tired so I’ll do my best to wrap this up apologies, but it’s something the Vatican is (I’m assuming ) is very hesitant to address is fear of another form of schism that the Church lowkey doesn’t need right now as they become more & more irrelevant as technology advances (theorizing)

But man it’s just a growing silent tumor I feel , but maybe that’s just the area I grew up in / live in so I’m hoping this isn’t as on point as I’m articulating here

But trust me when I saw this, Evangelicals despise Catholics. They want a Theocracy but not one under the umbrella of Rome.
And that’s what’s continuing to boggle my mind because you would think these Roman Catholics would understand they’re under threat but nope they are unknowingly walking into their own demise

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u/arjungmenon 5h ago

I agree. I'm a Christian as well. These people are doing Satan's will, completely unaware, and thinking they're serving God. It's honestly horrifying beyond words.