{"id":317401,"date":"2017-07-15T04:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ndp-leadership-candidate-niki-ashton-supports-palestinian-rights\/"},"modified":"2017-07-15T04:25:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T03:25:50","slug":"ndp-leadership-candidate-niki-ashton-supports-palestinian-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ndp-leadership-candidate-niki-ashton-supports-palestinian-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP Leadership Candidate Niki Ashton Supports Palestinian Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sometimes silence in politics speaks louder than words.<\/p>\n<p>Israel lobby groups\u2019 response (or lack thereof) to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton\u2019s recent support of Palestinian rights suggests they believe previous criticisms backfired.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes silence in politics speaks louder than words.<\/p>\n<p>Israel lobby groups\u2019 response (or lack thereof) to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton\u2019s recent support of Palestinian rights suggests they believe previous criticisms backfired.<\/p>\n<p>Two months ago B\u2019nai B\u2019rith attacked Ashton for attending a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and a subsequent Facebook post commemorating the <a href=\"https:\/\/interactive.aljazeera.com\/aje\/palestineremix\/al-nakba.html#\/17\">Nakba<\/a>, which saw 750,000 Palestinians driven from their homes by Zionist forces in 1947\/\u201948. The self-declared \u2018human rights\u2019 organization published a press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnaibrith.ca\/b_nai_brith_denounces_mp_niki_ashton_for_standing_in_solidarity_with_terrorists\">titled<\/a> \u201cB\u2019nai Brith Denounces MP Niki Ashton for Standing in \u2018Solidarity\u2019 with Terrorists.\u201d Rather than harming Ashton, the attack solidified support amongst the Left and youth within the party. B\u2019nai B\u2019rith\u2019s smear generated significant media attention, but Ashton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/local\/bnai-brith-upset-ashton-attended-rally-for-palestine-423384723.html\">refused<\/a> to back down. In response the Manitoba MP told the <em>Winnipeg Free Press<\/em> she felt obligated to \u201cspeak out in the face of injustice\u201d and \u201cI have consistently spoken out for peace and justice in the Middle East, including for Palestinians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few days after accusing her of \u201cStanding in \u2018Solidarity\u2019 with Terrorists\u201d B\u2019nai B\u2019rith CEO Michael Mostyn took&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/07\/ndp-leadership-candidate-niki-ashton-supports-palestinian-rights\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes silence in politics speaks louder than words. Israel lobby groups\u2019 response (or lack thereof) to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton\u2019s recent support of Palestinian rights suggests they believe previous criticisms backfired. Sometimes silence in politics speaks louder than words. Israel lobby groups\u2019 response (or lack thereof) to NDP leadership candidate Niki Ashton\u2019s recent support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317401","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\/317401","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\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}