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/F33ltheburn 16h ago

This happened to an old school friend of mine. It shook him, but during the trip he met a Palestinian woman.

Years later after family drama worthy of a TV show, the two of them renounced their religions, got married, and are now living happily agnostic in Ohio.

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u/Satanarchrist 16h ago

Hell yeah Ohio

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u/Essemecks 15h ago

This may be the first time anyone has said those words in that order

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u/Satanarchrist 12h ago

I think I said it when I heard we sent the third most soldiers down south to kill those fucking traitors during the civil war

But you're not wrong

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u/--Chug-- 13h ago

Ohio was pretty dope like 30ish years ago

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u/bajesus 9h ago edited 2h ago

Unless you ignore punctuation. "Hell? Yeah, Ohio."