{"id":300898,"date":"2017-03-27T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-hold-protest-in-washington-against-zionist-lobby\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T06:18:08","slug":"americans-hold-protest-in-washington-against-zionist-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/americans-hold-protest-in-washington-against-zionist-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans hold protest in Washington against Zionist lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pro-Palestinian activists have demonstrated outside of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, DC to protest against the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, which was largely attended by members of the left-wing Jewish Resistance group, on Sunday came a day ahead of the annual AIPAC conference in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters condemned the pro-Israel policies of US President Donald Trump and the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory as well as continued Israeli settlement activity on the occupied land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re protesting [AIPAC] en masse as Jews to say that to be Jewish in America at this moment doesn\u2019t mean to support Israel unconditionally,\u201d said 25-year-old Yonah Lieberman, one of the co-founders of the anti-settlement group IfNotNow, which organized the rally. \u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170327\/3d0a8f94-753c-4391-8420-43e532c38a6d.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Activists march outside of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/27\/515741\/Americans-protest-against-AIPAC-in-Washington\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Palestinian activists have demonstrated outside of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, DC to protest against the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States. The demonstration, which was largely attended by members of the left-wing Jewish Resistance group, on Sunday came a day ahead of the annual AIPAC conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-300898","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\/300898","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=300898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}