{"id":2650,"date":"2011-04-22T06:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T05:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=2650"},"modified":"2011-04-29T15:27:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T14:27:16","slug":"i-witness-a-terrible-example-of-israeli-apartheid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/i-witness-a-terrible-example-of-israeli-apartheid\/","title":{"rendered":"I witness a terrible example of Israeli Apartheid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button112\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/i-witness-a-terrible-example-of-israeli-apartheid\/\" data-text=\"I witness a terrible example of Israeli Apartheid - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>Yesterday, near the Kotel\/Western Wall in Jerusalem I was shocked to see several hundred Ethiopian Jews openly celebrating an ancient Passover ritual.<\/p>\n<p>The entire plaza near the Davidson Center was thronged with very well-behaved and very polite African Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>I took several photos which I hope to post when I return home.<\/p>\n<p>How appalling that the Israeli authorities seemed to be totally sanguine to see all these black people mingling with the dominant &#8216;white&#8217; Israelis in a clear breach of the Apartheid laws.<\/p>\n<p>Even more appalling was the complete mingling of all races and creeds in the Old City on a day when thousands of Jews had arrived to take part in the Blessing of the Priests (Bircat HaCohanim) at the Kotel\/Western Wall.<\/p>\n<p>What is Israeli society coming to when such mingling of the races is openly tolerated?<\/p>\n<p>If anyone knows more about the ceremony I witnessed, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweet_button112\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/22\/i-witness-a-terrible-example-of-israeli-apartheid\/\" data-text=\"I witness a terrible example of Israeli Apartheid - Ray Cook - As I See It\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\" data-via=\"tweetbutton\"  data-related=\"coderplus:Wordpress Tips and more.\"><\/a><\/div><p>Yesterday, near the Kotel\/Western Wall in Jerusalem I was shocked to see several hundred Ethiopian Jews openly celebrating an ancient Passover ritual. The entire plaza near the Davidson Center was thronged with very well-behaved and very polite African Israelis. I took several photos which I hope to post when I return home. How appalling that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[226,897,4,899,898],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel-and-accusations-of-racism-and-apartheid","tag-apartheid","tag-ethiopian-jews","tag-israel","tag-kotel","tag-passover","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}