Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was caught in a huge whopper Monday when video footage of his supposed detention by settlers showed him not being detained.

Standing against the backdrop of a wealthy Arab neighborhood with a mansion towering behind him, Khanna complained about his alleged detention.

The congressman had refused to coordinate with the Israeli embassy and refused to meet with Israeli survivors of the Oct. 7 massacre, instead coordinating his trip with the Israel-hating organization J Street and other anti-Israel activists.

“I saw the arrogance in the eyes of those settlers, 21- and 22-year-olds with guns, laughing that they had detained us,” he complained. “The arrogance of those young IDF soldiers that my tax dollars are funding, having no respect for the fact that they were detaining Americans, no respect that there was an American congressperson in that bus, and laughing when our translator told them that there are Americans there, and the American embassy is concerned.”

“It is the arrogance of power, of a power that has had no accountability, total impunity, and has created a toxic culture of oppression,” he sniffed.

Unfortunately for Khanna, video footage released Monday by his very own activists showed nothing of the kind, just an argument between the Breaking the Silence activist accompanying Khanna and local security, who simply insisted on waiting for the police to show up to sort everything out.

In addition, a Fox News anchor expressed astonishment in an interview with Khanna over the fact that he hadn’t expected to be detained after entering a restricted military zone without prior coordination with the IDF.

“What a glorious self-own,” Eitan Fischberger, an OSINT investigator and former IDF sergeant, posted on X.