{"id":395873,"date":"2019-02-11T19:16:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ilhan-omars-criticism-of-israeli-lobby-and-aipac-is-not-anti-semitic\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:16:17","slug":"ilhan-omars-criticism-of-israeli-lobby-and-aipac-is-not-anti-semitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ilhan-omars-criticism-of-israeli-lobby-and-aipac-is-not-anti-semitic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhan Omar\u2019s Criticism of Israeli Lobby and AIPAC Is Not Anti-Semitic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story_summary\">\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p>Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is facing criticism today after commenting on a tweet by Glenn Greenwald. On Sunday, Greenwald tweeted, &ldquo;<span class=\"caps\">GOP <\/span>Leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment for @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib over their criticisms of Israel. It&rsquo;s stunning how much time US political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking free speech rights of Americans.&rdquo; Rep. Omar retweeted his post and added the line: &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about the Benjamins baby.&rdquo; She later named<span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">AIPAC<\/span><span> <\/span>as the organization paying American politicians to be pro-Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Please check back later for full transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/ilhan-omars-criticism-of-israeli-lobby-and-aipac-is-not-anti-semitic\/\">Ilhan Omar&#8217;s Criticism of Israeli Lobby and AIPAC Is Not Anti-Semitic<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\">Truthout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/ilhan-omars-criticism-of-israeli-lobby-and-aipac-is-not-anti-semitic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Congressmember Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is facing criticism today after commenting on a tweet by Glenn Greenwald. On Sunday, Greenwald tweeted, &ldquo;GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy threatens punishment for @IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib over their criticisms of Israel. It&rsquo;s stunning how much time US political leaders spend defending a foreign nation even if it means attacking [&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-395873","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\/395873","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=395873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}