{"id":136356,"date":"2014-08-12T21:28:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=136356"},"modified":"2014-08-12T21:28:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T21:28:20","slug":"democrat-youth-wing-fires-members-criticized-israels-child-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/democrat-youth-wing-fires-members-criticized-israels-child-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat youth wing fires members who criticized Israel\u2019s child killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College Democrats of America (CDA), the youth wing of the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000066;\" href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/tags\/democratic-party\">Democratic<\/a>\u00a0National Committee, forced two of its members to resign from leadership positions following a right-wing smear campaign this week.<\/p>\n<p>They were branded anti-Semites after expressing anger at Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza in a heated social media exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Woodside, a twenty-year-old student at Catholic University of America, says he was fired 6 August\u00a0from his position as Communications Director with the DC Federation for College Democrats, CDA\u2019s Washington DC branch.<\/p>\n<p>Woodside told The Electronic Intifada he was \u201ctold we would never receive donations because I made the organization seem radical.\u201d \u00a0He added, \u201cwhile I was officially asked to resign by the state level at DC College Dems, it was highly suggested their request for me to leave was from being pressured at the national college Dems level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Woodside noted that CDA has a pattern of firing its members for dissenting on foreign policy issues. He says he was fired from a national level CDA position in January for criticizing President Obama\u2019s deadly drone policy.<\/p>\n<p>The same same day as Woodside, Boston College student Evan Goldstein was\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #000066;\" href=\"http:\/\/collegedems.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/resignation-of-cda-appointed-leader\/\">forced to resign<\/a>\u00a0from his role as CDA\u2019s social media coordinator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/rania-khalek\/democrat-youth-wing-fires-members-who-criticized-israels-child-killings\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College Democrats of America (CDA), the youth wing of the\u00a0Democratic\u00a0National Committee, forced two of its members to resign from leadership positions following a right-wing smear campaign this week. They were branded anti-Semites after expressing anger at Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza in a heated social media exchange. Christopher Woodside, a twenty-year-old student at Catholic University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}