{"id":427,"date":"2014-10-03T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/03\/how-the-us-falsely-accused-a-palestinian-teacher\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:26:11","slug":"how-the-us-falsely-accused-a-palestinian-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2014\/10\/03\/how-the-us-falsely-accused-a-palestinian-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"How the US falsely accused a Palestinian teacher of aiding terror | The Electronic Intifada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, who followed Aref\u2019s trial closely, wrote, \u201cSomeday we\u2019ll look back on the present national paranoia over terrorism and the excesses done in its name with the same national embarrassment that Americans feel for Senator Joe McCarthy\u2019s communist witch hunts of the 1950s and our appalling treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Times Union columnist Fred LeBrun, who followed Aref\u2019s trial closely, wrote, \u201cSomeday we\u2019ll look back on the present national paranoia over terrorism and the excesses done in its name with the same national embarrassment that Americans feel for Senator Joe … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1605,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/24\/apple-bans-palestinian-activist-app-from-itunes\/","url_meta":{"origin":427,"position":0},"title":"Apple Bans Palestinian Activist App From iTunes, But Allows Israeli Government Propaganda AppA","author":"aslam","date":"June 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesEarlier this week, Apple announced that it would pull an iPhone app published by a group of Palestinian activists calling for a third intifada (Arabic for uprising).Show original","rel":"","context":"In \"Apple\"","block_context":{"text":"Apple","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/apple\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2017\/05\/05\/mohammad-sabaanehs-dangerous-cartoons-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":427,"position":1},"title":"Mohammad Sabaaneh’s dangerous cartoons | The Electronic Intifada","author":"aslam","date":"May 5, 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"One cartoon, ironically subtitled \u201cScales of \u2018Justice,\u2019\u201d portrays the traditional set of scales associated with the law. 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