{"id":380306,"date":"2018-10-09T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-israel-arrests-us-student-for-supporting-palestine\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:02:16","slug":"presstv-israel-arrests-us-student-for-supporting-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-israel-arrests-us-student-for-supporting-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Israel arrests US student for supporting Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US citizen Lara Alqasem, 22, has been held in detention in Israel\u2019s Ben-Gurion Airport since last Tuesday, for\u00a0supporting a Palestinian-led boycott campaign against\u00a0the regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alqasem, who has a valid student\u2019s visa and was registered to study a graduate course at Israel&#8217;s Hebrew University, was detained by Israeli authorities at the airport for supporting the Palestinian cause.<\/p>\n<p>Alqasem, whose grandparents are from Palestine, is a former president of the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>Her \u201ccrime,\u201d according to Israeli authorities, is that while studying for her bachelor\u2019s degree Alqasem was president of a group that advocates the pro-Palestine Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.<\/p>\n<p>The BDS movement is a Palestinian-led international campaign launched more than a decade ago with the aim of ending Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>It pursues equal rights for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/09\/576531\/US-Student-Israel-Detention-Lara-Alqasem-Hebrew\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US citizen Lara Alqasem, 22, has been held in detention in Israel\u2019s Ben-Gurion Airport since last Tuesday, for\u00a0supporting a Palestinian-led boycott campaign against\u00a0the regime. Alqasem, who has a valid student\u2019s visa and was registered to study a graduate course at Israel&#8217;s Hebrew University, was detained by Israeli authorities at the airport for supporting the Palestinian [&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-380306","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\/380306","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=380306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}