{"id":984,"date":"2014-08-14T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:32:35","slug":"why-israel-is-losing-the-battle-in-britains-trade-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/why-israel-is-losing-the-battle-in-britains-trade-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Israel is losing the battle in Britain&#8217;s trade unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s trade unions were not always hostile to Israel. One doesn\u2019t have to go back very far to remember a time when they would invite representatives from the Histadrut to speak at union conferences. And the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella body representing 6.2 million union members, is still on record supporting a two-state solution and Israel\u2019s right to exist.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is my first blog post for the Times of Israel. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/why-israel-is-losing-the-battle-in-britains-trade-unions\/\">Read the full post here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s trade unions were not always hostile to Israel. One doesn\u2019t have to go back very far to remember a time when they would invite representatives from the Histadrut to speak at union conferences. And&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-times-of-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}