{"id":502,"date":"2006-01-15T01:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T00:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/15\/interpal_threatened_yet_again"},"modified":"2006-01-15T01:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-01-15T00:43:01","slug":"interpal_threatened_yet_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/15\/interpal_threatened_yet_again","title":{"rendered":"Interpal threatened yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph is reporting that the governments of the US and Israel are yet again demanding that Interpal, a British charity for Palestine which has been investigated *twice* by the Charity Commission and cleared of any wrongdoing (and recently [won an apology](http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2005\/12\/jewish_board_of.html) from the Board of Deputies of British <strike>Zionists<\/strike> Jews for calling them a terrorist organisation), be banned.  The Israeli ambassador to the UK, Zvi Hefetz, is to meet with Ivan Lewis, economic secretary to the Treasury and a member of Labour Friends of Israel.  George Galloway is promising to donate his winnings, if he wins Celebrity Big Brother, to the charity; I wonder if he will be aware of the present situation.  (More on the Interpal situation by Osama Saeed [here](http:\/\/www.osamasaeed.org\/osama\/2006\/01\/knives_remain_o.html).)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegraph | News | Government urged to ban Galloway's Big Brother charity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/01\/15\/ngall15.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2006\/01\/15\/ixnewstop.html\">Telegraph: Government urged to ban Galloway&#8217;s Big Brother charity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Telegraph is reporting that the governments of the US and Israel are yet again demanding that Interpal, a British charity for Palestine which has been investigated *twice* by the Charity Commission and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3792],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-86","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}