Six members of Canada’s parliament traveling from Jordan were denied entry to the West Bank on Tuesday by Israeli authorities, who accused the delegation of being sponsored by “a terror entity.”

Ontario Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid, from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ruling Liberal Party, said she was part of the delegation and was shoved several times by Israeli border officials.

She said she was pushed after trying to check on a member of the roughly 30-person delegation who was pulled aside for additional questioning after the group had been at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the Israeli-controlled West Bank.

Khalid said the border officials were able to see she was a lawmaker as they had taken her special passport, which looks different from a standard Canadian document.

The lawmakers were on a trip sponsored by Canadian-Muslim Vote, a charity........

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