{"id":295095,"date":"2017-02-16T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-protest-policies-of-israel-as-netanyahu-visits-us\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:03:04","slug":"americans-protest-policies-of-israel-as-netanyahu-visits-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-protest-policies-of-israel-as-netanyahu-visits-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans protest policies of Israel as Netanyahu visits US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Americans have staged demonstrations in Washington, DC, and Boston to protest Israel\u2019s policies after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump at the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of people, including a number of Orthodox Jewish activists, held demonstrations near the White House and the Trump International Hotel in Washington to protest against Netanyahu\u2019s visit to the US, the Middle East Eye news website reported.<\/p>\n<p>They also voiced opposition to the illegal settlements Israel is building on the occupied Palestinian land and to Trump\u2019s campaign promise to move the US embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds. In addition, they protested against the choice of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Many protesters were chanting \u201cBibi go home!\u201d as the DC Metro Police watched them from their patrol cars.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170216\/ef3e885d-f92c-40ee-9eaf-f68ac4a35f04.jpg\"\/><figcaption>People protest in front of the White House against Israel\u2019s policies after Prime Minister Benjamin&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/02\/16\/510764\/Americans-protest-policies-of-Israel-Netanyahu-visits-DC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have staged demonstrations in Washington, DC, and Boston to protest Israel\u2019s policies after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump at the White House. On Wednesday afternoon, hundreds of people, including a number of Orthodox Jewish activists, held demonstrations near the White House and the Trump International Hotel in Washington to protest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295095","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=295095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}