{"id":339875,"date":"2017-12-17T12:07:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-protesters-slam-trumps-jerusalem-decision-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:07:47","slug":"presstv-protesters-slam-trumps-jerusalem-decision-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-protesters-slam-trumps-jerusalem-decision-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Protesters slam Trump&#8217;s Jerusalem decision in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Thousands of people have held rallies in Washington, protesting at US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel&#8217;s capital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The protesters gathered near the White House on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners denouncing the Israeli occupation of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The banners read, &#8220;Stop the occupation in Palestine now&#8221;, &#8220;Jerusalem belongs to Palestinians&#8221; and &#8220;We reject Trump&#8217;s decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a speech to protesters, Osama Abu Irshaid, the director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), said, &#8220;Jerusalem is the eternal capital of Palestine whether Trump or his buddy, the war criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu like it or not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Mr. President wants to give property to the state of Israel, he should give one of his properties if he really owns them,&#8221; Abu Irshaid said. &#8220;But we don&#8217;t really know how much he owns because he never declared his taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the protesters, there were many of Jewish&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/17\/545905\/US-Palestine-Donald-Trump-Jerusalem-decision\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have held rallies in Washington, protesting at US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel&#8217;s capital. The protesters gathered near the White House on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and carrying banners denouncing the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The banners read, &#8220;Stop the occupation in Palestine now&#8221;, &#8220;Jerusalem belongs to [&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-339875","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\/339875","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=339875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}