{"id":562,"date":"2008-07-15T04:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T09:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2008-07-15T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T09:14:28","slug":"obama-raised-funds-for-islamic-causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/obama-raised-funds-for-islamic-causes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama raised funds for Islamic causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=57341\" target=\"_blank\">By Aaron Klein <!--- copywrite only show on NON commentary pages as per joseph meeting 8\/23\/06   --><span><!-- copyright -->\u00a9\u00a02008\u00a0WorldNetDaily <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a>&#8230;Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based Palestinian-American activist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian online publication, recalls introducing Obama at one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for the Deheisha Palestinian camp in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Abunimah is also a harsh critic of Israel and has protested outside pro-Israel events in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew Barack Obama for many years as my state senator \u2013 when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time,&#8221; stated Abuminah during an interview last month with Democracy Now!, a nationally syndicated radio and television political program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember personally introducing [Obama] onstage in 1999, when we had a major community fundraiser for the community center in Deheisha refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. And that&#8217;s just one example of how Barack Obama used to be very comfortable speaking up for and being associated with Palestinian rights and opposing the Israeli occupation,&#8221; Abunimah said&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/worldnetdaily.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=57341\" target=\"_blank\">continue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Aaron Klein \u00a9\u00a02008\u00a0WorldNetDaily &#8230;Ali Abunimah, a Chicago-based Palestinian-American activist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a pro-Palestinian online publication, recalls introducing Obama at one such event, a 1999 fundraiser for the Deheisha Palestinian camp in the West Bank. Abunimah is also a harsh critic of Israel and has protested outside pro-Israel events in the Chicago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-94","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}