{"id":253029,"date":"2024-09-25T06:35:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=253029"},"modified":"2024-09-25T06:39:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T10:39:27","slug":"eric-clapton-israel-is-running-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=253029","title":{"rendered":"<h1><b>Eric Clapton: \u2018Israel is running the world\u2019<\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-25-at-6.39.12-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"682\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253035\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-25-at-6.39.12-AM.png 559w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screen-Shot-2024-09-25-at-6.39.12-AM-246x300.png 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>READ HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-804047\"><strong>&#8220;And it is! It\u2019s AIPAC, it\u2019s<br \/>\nthe lobby. Israel is running the show. Israel is running the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>From the Jerusalem Post<\/h1>\n<p>British rock guitar legend Eric Clapton moved one step closer to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-784477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Roger Waters<\/a>\u00a0territory last week, telling an interviewer that \u201cIsrael is running the world, Israel is running the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>The 79-year-old musician, who has recently performed playing a guitar painted in the colors of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-784094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">the Palestinian flag<\/a>, \u00a0was interviewed on May 22 \u00a0by David Spuria, an American Youtuber who hosts the popular Real Music Observer show.<\/p>\n<section class=\"fake-br-for-article-body\"><\/section>\n<p>Talking about the recent campus protests in the US against Israel, Clapton criticized the Senate hearings in which university presidents were asked about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-802443\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">antisemitism on campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Clapton criticizes Senate hearings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI was so enthused about what was going on at Columbia [University] and elsewhere. And then what I couldn\u2019t believe, because it freaked me out, were the Senate hearings, which were like the Nuremberg trials, you know?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-804047\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-804047<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}