{"id":333559,"date":"2017-11-04T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-activists-protest-centenary-of-balfour-declaration\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T17:58:30","slug":"presstv-uk-activists-protest-centenary-of-balfour-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-activists-protest-centenary-of-balfour-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK activists protest centenary of Balfour Declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of demonstrators have staged a rally outside the US embassy in London to demand the British government apologize for the controversial Balfour Declaration signed 100 years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pro-Palestine activists marched from the US embassy towards\u00a0Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters called the Balfour Declaration issued in 1917 during World War I a \u201chistoric crime\u201d and expressed outrage at the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of Israel\u2019s brutal regime.<\/p>\n<p>They also condemned as an open insult the recent visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Britain for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the document.<\/p>\n<p>The activists said they&#8217;re determined to demand compensation and called on the UK to take responsibility for its role in the pain forced upon the Palestinian nation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171104\/62fdf2cd-84fd-417d-b4b7-361256fcfc93.jpg\" width=\"550\"\/><figcaption>Protesters hold a Palestinian flag during a rally in central London on November 4, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UK Prime&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/04\/540987\/UK-politics-London-protest-Balfour-Declaration-Jewish-state-occupation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of demonstrators have staged a rally outside the US embassy in London to demand the British government apologize for the controversial Balfour Declaration signed 100 years ago. The pro-Palestine activists marched from the US embassy towards\u00a0Trafalgar Square in central London on Saturday. The protesters called the Balfour Declaration issued in 1917 during World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333559","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\/333559","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=333559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}