{"id":1122,"date":"2016-08-01T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T08:16:13","slug":"israeli-knesset-welcomes-christian-support-for-jewish-state-in-fight-against-bds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/?p=1122","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Knesset Welcomes Christian Support for Jewish State in Fight Against BDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1123\" src=\"http:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/knesset-christians-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"knesset christians\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/knesset-christians-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/knesset-christians.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At an event on Monday coordinated by two parliamentary groups within the Israeli Knesset,\u00a0the Christian Allies Caucus and the Delegitimization Caucus,\u00a0Israeli lawmakers and other supporters of Israel gathered to discuss how to defeat the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The event was also held to thank the Israeli-Christian community for its support of the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two caucuses have supported \u201cDefeat BDS,\u201d a campaign that has helped pass anti-BDS legislation in 12 U.S. states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Delegitimization Caucus is here to fight the threats that generations and generations have brought against us, but the Christian supporters are her because they realize it\u2019s God that has defended Israel and delivered us from their hands,\u201d said Josh Reinstein, director of the Christian Allies Caucus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe seem to take things for granted.\u00a0Your friendship is not something to take for granted. We should never take it for granted,\u201d\u00a0Member of Knesset Yehudah Glick told Christian attendees of Monday\u2019s Knesset event, the <em>Jerusalem Post<\/em>reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jns.org\" target=\"_blank\">JNS.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an event on Monday coordinated by two parliamentary groups within the Israeli Knesset,\u00a0the Christian Allies Caucus and the Delegitimization Caucus,\u00a0Israeli lawmakers and other supporters of Israel gathered to discuss how to defeat the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,7],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1124,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions\/1124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orenu.co.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}