{"id":138022,"date":"2014-08-22T18:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T18:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=138022"},"modified":"2014-08-23T04:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T04:36:03","slug":"desmond-tutu-calls-global-boycott-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/desmond-tutu-calls-global-boycott-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Desmond Tutu calls for global boycott of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following Israeli&#8217;s\u00a0atrocious assault on the people of Palestine and decades long apartheid,\u00a0Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has called upon the world to boycott Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a special article for Haaretz, <a href=\"www.haaaretz.com\/mobile\/1.610687?v=66691173328C172D77ED27A198582751\" target=\"_blank\">he writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Those who continue to do business with Israel, who contribute to a sense of \u201cnormalcy\u201d in Israeli society, are doing the people of Israel and Palestine a disservice. They are contributing to the perpetuation of a profoundly unjust status quo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Those who contribute to Israel\u2019s temporary isolation are saying that Israelis and Palestinians are equally entitled to dignity and peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Ultimately, events in Gaza over the past month or so are going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;It is becoming more and more clear that politicians and diplomats are failing to come up with answers, and that responsibility for brokering a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land rests with civil society and the people of Israel and Palestine themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RINF Alternative News Following Israeli&#8217;s\u00a0atrocious assault on the people of Palestine and decades long apartheid,\u00a0Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has called upon the world to boycott Israel. In a special article for Haaretz, he writes: &#8220;Those who continue to do business with Israel, who contribute to a sense of \u201cnormalcy\u201d in Israeli society, are doing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}