{"id":58538,"date":"2015-03-02T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58538"},"modified":"2015-03-02T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:39:31","slug":"code-pink-arrested-at-aipac-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58538","title":{"rendered":"Code Pink arrested at AIPAC convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/news2share.com\/start\/2015\/03\/01\/report-code-pink-demonstrates-outside-aipac\/\">News2Share<\/a> send us a link to their coverage of a Code Pink protest yesterday at a American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention. Five of the stank-ass hippies were arrested as a result (you&#8217;ll probably want to turn down the volume before you watch these  videos);<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HR5kGRD6lMs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D64CkLyX8oY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIts important to challenge AIPAC\u2019s influence in Washington DC, and to show our strength in numbers today,\u201d says Alli McCracken, CODEPINK\u2019S National Organizer. CODEPINK and other pro-Palestine organizations are urging the US government to advocate for diplomacy with Iran and condemn Israel\u2019s siege of the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at where we stand as a nation right now, and with all the violence that\u2019s happening in the middle east, it\u2019s a very scary time\u201d [Medea] Benjamin says. \u201cIf these negotiations with Iran don\u2019t come to fruition, that could mean a war with Iran. Unfortunately, AIPAC is adding fuel to the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some have criticized the Pro-Palestine movement as anti-Semetic. McCracken says this is not the case. \u201cCriticizing the government policies of another country isn\u2019t the same as criticizing an ethnicity or a religion\u201d McCracken says. \u201cYou cannot conflate anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny how they don&#8217;t see Iran&#8217;s rhetoric about the destruction of Israel, or Hezbollah (Iran&#8217;s proxy in Lebanon) rocket and mortar attacks on Israel as &#8220;fuel to the fire&#8221;. And I wonder what that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57749\">Iranian general was doing with Hezbollah on the Golan Heights<\/a> a few weeks ago when he was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Probably trying to convince them to invest in his Amway business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at News2Share send us a link to their coverage of a Code Pink protest &hellip; <a title=\"Code Pink arrested at AIPAC convention\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58538\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Code Pink arrested at AIPAC convention<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code-pink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}