{"id":3604,"date":"2010-06-07T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:00:15","slug":"cair-blames-helen-thomas%e2%80%99-retirement-on-%e2%80%9cpro-israeli-lobby%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"CAIR blames Helen Thomas\u2019 retirement on \u201cpro-Israeli lobby\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> June 7, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a June 7 article regarding Helen Thomas\u2019 retirement in the wake of her controversial public comments about Jews in Israel, CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper was quoted as saying \u201cshe&#8217;s been a target of the pro-Israeli lobby for quite some time. She obviously gave them an opportunity to marginalize her voice in the media.\u201d\u00a0 He excused her conduct saying that Thomas\u2019 emotions might have \u201cgot the best of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/06\/07\/helen-thomas-retires-after-controversial-comment-on-palestine\/\">http:\/\/www.politicsdaily.com\/2010\/06\/07\/helen-thomas-retires-after-controversial-comment-on-palestine\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/helen-thomas.pdf\">(PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: June 7, 2010 Description: In a June 7 article regarding Helen Thomas\u2019 retirement in the wake of her controversial public comments about Jews in Israel, CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper was quoted as saying \u201cshe&#8217;s been a target of the pro-Israeli lobby for quite some time. She obviously gave them an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,122,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-islamophobia","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}