{"id":16969,"date":"2018-10-01T12:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16969"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:28:53","slug":"palestinians-in-west-bank-strike-over-israels-nation-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16969","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians in West Bank strike over Israel\u2019s nation law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1380496\/middle-east\" readability=\"43\">\n<p>\nRAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinians are on a general strike across the West Bank in solidarity with Arab citizens of Israel over a contentious law that defines Israel as a Jewish state.<br \/>The streets of Ramallah and other West Bank cities were largely empty on Monday as schools, universities, government offices and private business were closed. Public transportation also wasn&#8217;t available.<br \/>For the Palestinians, the strike is a rare foray into domestic Israeli politics.<br \/>Critics of Israel&#8217;s Jewish nation state law, passed last month, say it sidelines Israel&#8217;s non-Jewish citizens.<br \/>Israel&#8217;s 1948 declaration of independence defined the country as a Jewish and democratic state. The government says the new law merely enshrines Israel&#8217;s existing character, but critics say it undercuts Israel&#8217;s democratic values and marginalizes the Arab minority, about 20 percent of the population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinians are on a general strike across the West Bank in solidarity with Arab citizens of Israel over a contentious law that defines Israel as a Jewish state.The streets of Ramallah and other West Bank cities were largely empty on Monday as schools, universities, government offices and private business were closed. Public&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}