{"id":124236,"date":"2023-10-31T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124236"},"modified":"2023-10-31T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:30:33","slug":"nyt-how-posters-of-kidnapped-israelis-ignited-a-firestorm-on-american-sidewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124236","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) How Posters of Kidnapped Israelis Ignited a Firestorm on American Sidewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKIDNAPPED,\u201d the posters say, in big block letters above pictures of people taken hostage by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, urgent reminders of the men, women and children still being held hostage in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>But on college campuses and in cities around the world in recent weeks, people have been caught tearing them down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be ashamed of yourselves,\u201d a man says in a video posted on social media as he watches two young people at the University of Southern California shove wadded-up posters into the trash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re making the conflict worse,\u201d one of the young people replies, adding, \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of Hamas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/10\/31\/nyregion\/israel-gaza-kidnapped-poster-fight.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Those who object to the posters have derided them as wartime propaganda. Critics of those tearing them down have characterized the act as antisemitic and lacking basic humanity.&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katierosman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@katierosman<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygoLwNCjXd\">https:\/\/t.co\/ygoLwNCjXd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sapna Maheshwari (@sapna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sapna\/status\/1719373774384988269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKIDNAPPED,\u201d the posters say, in big block letters above pictures of people taken hostage by Hamas terrorists during the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, urgent reminders of the men, women and children still being held hostage in Gaza. But on<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124236\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,168,565,429,114,108,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-israel","category-judaism","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124241,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124236\/revisions\/124241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}