{"id":5931,"date":"2014-07-27T20:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T03:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2014-07-27T20:58:15","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T03:58:15","slug":"hundreds-rally-in-support-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2014\/07\/27\/hundreds-rally-in-support-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds rally in support of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rally in support of Israel drew a few hundred people to the\u00a0Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday afternoon. <em>(photo by Shahar Ben Halevi)<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 300 people\u00a0gathered around the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday, July 27, at noon, to show support for\u00a0the state of Israel and for peace in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The rally \u2013\u00a0organized by a Facebook group of Israelis in Vancouver \u2013 went peacefully, and there were no apparent counter protests in the area. The supporters carried signs calling for an end to the conflict, and emphasizing\u00a0that Israel is fighting terrorists and not the people of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was covered by several local media representatives, but there were no speeches. The crowd sang together a few traditional Jewish songs and ended the event with\u00a0Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rally in support of Israel drew a few hundred people to the\u00a0Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday afternoon. (photo by Shahar Ben Halevi) Nearly 300 people\u00a0gathered around the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday, July 27, at noon, to show support for\u00a0the state of Israel and for peace in the Middle East. The rally \u2013\u00a0organized by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4330],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-israel"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}