It was olive-harvest season in Judea and Samaria. It was also election season in New York. That cannot be separated from Brad Lander’s decision to leave the district he hopes to represent and join activists near Beitar Illit’s security fence.

Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th Congressional District, was briefly detained Wednesday while accompanying Palestinian farmers near the village of Nahalin.

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