{"id":609,"date":"2006-04-18T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/18\/every_word_in_it_is_a_lie"},"modified":"2025-10-10T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T20:44:21","slug":"every_word_in_it_is_a_lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/04\/18\/every_word_in_it_is_a_lie","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every word in it is a lie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DD Guttenplan, on the Guardian&#39;s Comments blog, takes apart the recently-published <a href=\"http:\/\/eustonmanifesto.org\/joomla\/\">Euston Manifesto<\/a>, exposing the alliance behind it &#8211; liberal advocates for Israel including the Engage mob and what he calls the &quot;laptop bombardiers&quot; like Norman Geras and Nick Cohen, and the odd sectarian leftist of the Workers&#39; Liberty stripe.  The choice of decoration is noted as well &#8211; the US Declaration of Independence, no less.  (I wonder if they really thought about this though, or if they chose it because it looked nice and was the right colour?)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Comment is free: No sects please, you're British\" href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/dd_guttenplan\/2006\/04\/no_sects_pleaseyoure_british.html\">Comment is free: No sects please, you&#39;re British<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DD Guttenplan, on the Guardian&#39;s Comments blog, takes apart the recently-published Euston Manifesto, exposing the alliance behind it &#8211; liberal advocates for Israel including the Engage mob and what he calls the &quot;laptop bombardiers&quot;&#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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-9P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42508,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/42508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}