Mamdani-backed US congressional candidate Brad Lander is detained by Israeli forces with rabbis at a West Bank olive harvest
Brad Lander, the NY-10 congressional nominee, whose group says it could not have known the area near Nahalin had been declared a closed military zone.
About 80 American, Israeli and British volunteers were rounded up near Nahalin, outside Bethlehem, including Israel's former deputy attorney general. Israeli authorities said the group had entered a closed military zone. Lander has since been released, but the others remain at a police station. Foreign nationals among them are expected to be moved to a military base.
Lander posted from a police bus: 'Harvesting olives isn't a crime under any law I know.'
Rabbi Jill Jacobs was held too, and her group says it could not have known about the zone.
Lander, the NY-10 nominee, ousted pro-Israel Democrat Dan Goldman in this year's primary.
