{"id":136561,"date":"2017-12-05T04:41:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136561"},"modified":"2017-12-05T04:41:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T09:41:45","slug":"israel-slams-eu-for-co-operating-with-anti-occupation-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/israel-slams-eu-for-co-operating-with-anti-occupation-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel slams EU for co operating with anti occupation group"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21851\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21851\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel.jpg\" alt=\"(Shutterstock photo)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Israel-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israel considers the groups to be slanderous toward the country (Shutterstock photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; Israel is lashing out at the European Union for its &#8220;patronizing&#8221; approach of marking\u00a0International\u00a0Human Rights Day with an exhibit critical of Israel&#8217;s occupation of the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said on Tuesday that for some reason E.U. representatives &#8220;believe that the way to Israelis&#8217; hearts is by spitting in their faces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says the approach of &#8220;preaching hypocritical, condescending morality&#8221; will backfire, calling it &#8220;sad and superfluous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The E.U. plans to mark the day together with the B&#8217;Tselem human right group, among the foreign-funded anti-occupation advocacy groups Israel has been trying to crack down on.<\/p>\n<p>The government has shunned foreign dignitaries who meet such groups and is pushing for legislation to curb their funding. Israel considers the groups to be slanderous toward the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; Israel is lashing out at the European Union for its &#8220;patronizing&#8221; approach of marking\u00a0International\u00a0Human Rights Day with an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":21851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[26017,3103,37178,841],"class_list":["post-136561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-emmanuel-nahshon","tag-european-union","tag-international-human-rights-day","tag-israel","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}