{"id":106676,"date":"2019-08-20T00:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T22:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/20\/we-have-an-obligation-ilhan-omar-calls-on-lawmakers-to-visit-israel\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T00:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T22:57:08","slug":"we-have-an-obligation-ilhan-omar-calls-on-lawmakers-to-visit-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=106676","title":{"rendered":"&#039;We have an obligation&#039;: Ilhan Omar calls on lawmakers to visit Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rashida Tlaib and Omar called decision to block their entry an attempt \u2018to suppress our ability to do our jobs\u2019 in press conferenceThe Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar called on her colleagues to visit Israel to prevent Donald Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, \u201csucceed in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us\u201d.Omar\u2019s comments came to in an emotional press conference on Monday, following Israel\u2019s decision last week to deny her and the Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib entry to the country amid pressure from Donald Trump. Omar called Israel\u2019s decision to block the planned official visit \u201cnothing less than an attempt by an ally of the United States to suppress our ability to do our jobs as elected officials\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/19\/ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-israel-press-conference\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;We have an obligation&#039;: Ilhan Omar calls on lawmakers to visit Israel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashida Tlaib and Omar called decision to block their entry an attempt \u2018to suppress our ability to do our jobs\u2019 in press conferenceThe Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar called on her colleagues to visit Israel to prevent Donald Trump and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, \u201csucceed in hiding the cruel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}