{"id":10451,"date":"2011-03-07T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2011-03-02T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:32:12","slug":"pete-seeger-officially-joins-anti-israel-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/03\/pete-seeger-officially-joins-anti-israel-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Seeger Officially Joins Anti-Israel Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Seeger, 92, one of the fathers of American folk music, is a veteran political and peace activist.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>American folk music legend Pete Seeger on Monday [Feb 28, 2011] officially joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign &#8211; an international movement to pressure and sanction Israel through economic means.<\/p>\n<p>Seeger, 92, one of the fathers of American folk music, is a veteran political and peace activist. In the 1950s he was interrogated by the McCarthyist House Unamerican Activities Committee and two years ago performed for U.S. President Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration concert.<\/p>\n<p>His songs &#8220;We Shall Overcome,&#8221; &#8220;Turn, Turn, Turn,&#8221; &#8220;If I Had a Hammer&#8221; and &#8220;Where Have All the Flowers Gone&#8221; have all become anthems for peace movements and civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>Seeger contributes half of the royalties from &#8220;Turn, Turn Turn&#8221; to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Seeger withdrew his support of a project associated with the Jewish National Fund&#8217;s American branch, after Israeli and Palestinian activists told him of the JNF&#8217;s role in driving the Bedouins out of their Negev areas.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting with ICAHD coordinator Jeff Halper, Seeger reportedly said his participation in the JNF project had been misunderstood and announced his support for BDS.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/news\/pete-seeger-officially-joins-anti-israel-boycott-1.346342\" >Go to Original \u2013 haaretz.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS<\/em> <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em> <\/em> <\/span><\/strong>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: <\/span><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong><\/span> products whose <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American folk music legend Pete Seeger on Monday [Feb 28, 2011] officially joined the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign &#8211; an international movement to pressure and sanction Israel through economic means. Seeger, 92, one of the fathers of American folk music, is a veteran political and peace activist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}