{"id":31717,"date":"2024-02-12T21:19:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31717"},"modified":"2024-02-12T21:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T05:19:43","slug":"israeli-teacher-who-was-locked-up-and-persecuted-for-opposing-war-on-gaza-speaks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/israeli-teacher-who-was-locked-up-and-persecuted-for-opposing-war-on-gaza-speaks-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli teacher who was locked up and persecuted for opposing war on Gaza speaks up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israeli teacher who was locked up and persecuted for opposing war on Gaza speaks up\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIB5mSAqQEc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MiddleEastEye\">Middle East Eye<\/a>  \u2022 Feb 9, 2024 \u201cThey wished me to die, they wished my children to die, they threatened to rape my daughter.\u201d Meir Baruchin, a 62-year-old Israeli history teacher and anti-war activist, revealed how he was arrested in October and imprisoned in solitary confinement as a \u201chigh-risk detainee\u201d in November for \u201cintent to commit an act of treason\u201d and \u201cintent to disrupt public order\u201d after he posted a photo of Palestinians killed by the Israeli army on 7 October in opposition to the war on Gaza. He had also faced harassment and threats from other Israelis online over the post. When he was released from prison and returned to his school to teach, he was met with a \u201cviolent demonstration\u201d from his own students and was forced to barricade himself in the teacher\u2019s room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East Eye \u2022 Feb 9, 2024 \u201cThey wished me to die, they wished my children to die, they threatened to rape my daughter.\u201d Meir Baruchin, a 62-year-old Israeli history teacher and anti-war activist, revealed how he was arrested in October and imprisoned in solitary confinement as a \u201chigh-risk detainee\u201d&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/12\/israeli-teacher-who-was-locked-up-and-persecuted-for-opposing-war-on-gaza-speaks-up\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1191,1812,828],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31718,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31717\/revisions\/31718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}