{"id":1172,"date":"2014-07-08T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T08:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T08:11:28","slug":"coldplay-run-foul-of-the-israel-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2014-07-08\/coldplay-run-foul-of-the-israel-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldplay in hot water over Palestine video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here in one little story, you have the reason why Israel keeps getting away with it.<\/p>\n<p>The band Coldplay put a link on Facebook to a video of the song &#8220;Freedom for Palestine&#8221;. Thousands of &#8220;fans&#8221; \u2013 more likely the hasbara crew \u2013 flood their site with angry comments. Fox News, of course, lambasts them. The Washington Post writes about the furore, leading with a quote that describes the band as &#8220;insufferable&#8221; (has no one ever said anything positive about them?). And the ever gutless Facebook takes down Coldplay&#8217;s link to the video.<\/p>\n<p>Were one\u00a0of that bent of mind,\u00a0one might almost think there was some kind of media conspiracy going on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V28HnPTYz-I?rel=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/post\/coldplay-angers-fans-by-telling-them-to-check-out-freedom-for-palestine-video\/2011\/06\/03\/AG50OvHH_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/post\/coldplay-angers-fans-by-telling-them-to-check-out-freedom-for-palestine-video\/2011\/06\/03\/AG50OvHH_blog.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in one little story, you have the reason why Israel keeps getting away with it. The band Coldplay put a link on Facebook to a video of the song &#8220;Freedom for Palestine&#8221;. Thousands of &#8220;fans&#8221; \u2013 more likely the hasbara crew \u2013 flood their site with angry comments. Fox News, of course, lambasts them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-1172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-israel-lobby","8":"tag-media-on-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}