{"id":91072,"date":"2026-10-21T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/91072"},"modified":"2026-10-21T12:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:45:52","slug":"us-democratic-congressional-nominee-lander-detained-by-israeli-authorities-in-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/91072","title":{"rendered":"US Democratic congressional nominee Lander detained by Israeli authorities in West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>TEL AVIV: Brad Lander, an \u200cally of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani who is running \u200bfor the US Congress \u200bnext month, was among 90 \u2060individuals detained by Israeli \u200bauthorities in the occupied West \u200bBank on Wednesday while accompanying Palestinian farmers harvesting olives, according to Rabbis \u200bfor Human rights, an \u200bIsraeli rights group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lander is a Jewish \u200cAmerican \u2060and former New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate who has criticized Israel\u2019s war \u200bin Gaza. \u200bHe \u2060is the Democratic party\u2019s nominee for New \u200bYork\u2019s 10th congressional district \u200bfor \u2060the US House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/israeli-settlers-burn-olive-trees-injure-journalist-in-west-bank-attack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israeli settlers burn olive trees, injure journalist in West Bank attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Israeli police said Monday they had arrested 10 people in the West Bank after settler attacks on an American photographer and a French mayor that drew international condemnation but mixed messages from the government.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they raided several locations across the occupied territory and seized cars and potential evidence related to the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests come as violence increases in the West Bank, with Israeli settlers disrupting the annual olive harvest of Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the severe incidents of violence over the past weekend, including the assault of a media worker and the suspected attacks on foreign civilians, an arrest operation was conducted before dawn,\u201d said Major General Moshe Finchi, the Israeli police\u2019s West Bank commander.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuspects were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the violent incidents, violating a military commander\u2019s order concerning a closed military zone, and illegal construction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/us-democratic-congressional-nominee-lander-detained-by-israeli-authorities-in-west-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEL AVIV: Brad Lander, an \u200cally of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani who is running \u200bfor the US Congress \u200bnext month, was among 90 \u2060individuals detained by Israeli \u200bauthorities in the occupied West \u200bBank on Wednesday while accompanying Palestinian farmers harvesting olives, according to Rabbis \u200bfor Human rights, an \u200bIsraeli rights group. Lander is a Jewish \u200cAmerican \u2060and former New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/Brad-Lander-1024x555.jpg",1024,555,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":8443,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":8443,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91074,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91072\/revisions\/91074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}