TEL AVIV: Brad Lander, a US Democratic party candidate for Congress, was detained in the occupied-West Bank by Israeli forces on Wednesday, along with dozens of activists who were picking olives alongside Palestinian farmers, rights groups said. Israeli organization Rabbis for Human Rights said around 80 volunteers, including Lander, were detained by Israeli military and police on village farmland near Bethlehem where for about two hours they had been accompanying the Palestinian farmers. Isr
