{"id":304882,"date":"2017-04-23T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T18:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-using-anti-semitism-excuse-to-cover-up-growing-opposition-to-israel-pundit\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T19:57:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T18:57:38","slug":"us-using-anti-semitism-excuse-to-cover-up-growing-opposition-to-israel-pundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-using-anti-semitism-excuse-to-cover-up-growing-opposition-to-israel-pundit\/","title":{"rendered":"US using anti-Semitism excuse to cover up growing opposition to Israel: Pundit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Forces within the US government are using anti-Semitism as an excuse to cover up growing opposition among university students to Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian lands, says Virginia-based analyst Keith Preston.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University said Sunday that anti-Semitic incidents on US college campuses, mostly in the form of insults and harassment of Jewish students, increased 45 percent in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the number of violent anti-Semitic incidents in the United States rose slightly last year, compared to 2015, increasing from 88 to 91, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>The report comes following a recent wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers across the United States and in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Political scientists and academics have argued that supporters of Israel equate criticism of Zionism and Israel with anti-Semitism in a deliberate attempt to discredit critics and prevent legitimate criticism of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Preston, director of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/04\/23\/519194\/US-anti-Semitism-Israel-Preston\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forces within the US government are using anti-Semitism as an excuse to cover up growing opposition among university students to Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian lands, says Virginia-based analyst Keith Preston. Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University said Sunday that anti-Semitic incidents on US college campuses, mostly in the form of insults and harassment of Jewish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-304882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304882","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=304882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}