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Brad Lander: Will be one of the Jewish congressmen who 'fights the hardest for Palestinian rights'

Published | Video Starts at 05:33

And we can confront our fears and demand respect and dignity and shared safety, but we have to show it as well. I spoke in my remarks last night about Three Israelis who I met a couple of weeks ago at a synagogue in Brooklyn do what's called protective presence in the West Bank. They put their bodies on the line to protect their Palestinian neighbors from settler terrorism, and they couldn't bring their Palestinian partners because they couldn't get visas here. (05:33–05:43)

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