Watch: Democratic candidate Brad Lander on his ban from Israel, Senate race
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[0:00] Welcome back to Take Up. Brad Lander is
[0:01] a Democratic nominee for Congress in New
[0:03] York's 10th district. He's heading to
[0:05] Congress, but interestingly, he's barred
[0:07] from returning to Israel after being
[0:09] detained in the West Bank last week.
[0:11] Lander are out with 70 others who are
[0:14] there to help Palestinian farmers
[0:16] harvest olives from a privately owned
[0:18] grove south of Bethlehem. The villagers
[0:20] say they haven't been able to access
[0:22] those olive trees since October 7th,
[0:24] 2023 because of increasing hostility
[0:28] and attacks from Israeli settlers. The
[0:31] Israeli army intervened to halt this
[0:34] effort to harvest olives.
[0:36] >> Hey guys, so we're on a bus. We've been
[0:39] detained by the Israeli military for
[0:41] harvesting olives. And let's be clear,
[0:43] occupation is a crime under
[0:45] international law. Harvesting olives is
[0:47] not a crime under any law.
[0:49] >> Brad Lander joins me now. Brad, it's
[0:50] good to have you on the program.
[0:51] >> Great to be here. Thank you.
[0:52] >> In something you wrote about this, you
[0:54] described what's going on in the We