{"id":17733,"date":"2012-11-24T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17733"},"modified":"2012-11-24T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T14:37:27","slug":"israel-lobby-attempts-to-smear-journalist-for-reporting-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/israel-lobby-attempts-to-smear-journalist-for-reporting-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel lobby attempts to smear journalist for reporting war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/UMFAfQJKlAM\">Abby Martin of Russia Today\u2019s\u00a0Brainwash Update\u00a0pointed out<\/a>\u00a0that Israel\u2019s targeting of Gaza media centers, which killed journalists and endangered employees of many news organizations, was a war crime. (She was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-city-media-centers-flagged-possible-war-crimes-887630\">hardly alone in this<\/a>). She was the victim of a smear attempt by the Israel lobby, which accused her of support for terrorism (because she dared call illegal Israeli actions illegal). If more journalists stood up to such smear campaigns with her feistiness, the world would be a better place. Watch her let her detractors have it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UMFAfQJKlAM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UMFAfQJKlAM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2012\/11\/rts-abby-martin-accuses-israel-of-war-crimes-for-targetting-journalists.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+juancole%2Fymbn+%28Informed+Comment%29\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Originally published on Informed Comment <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abby Martin of Russia Today\u2019s\u00a0Brainwash Update\u00a0pointed out\u00a0that Israel\u2019s targeting of Gaza media centers, which killed journalists and endangered employees of many news organizations, was a war crime. (She was\u00a0hardly alone in this). She was the victim of a smear attempt by the Israel lobby, which accused her of support for terrorism (because she dared call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media-news","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","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=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}