{"id":351573,"date":"2024-12-16T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=351573"},"modified":"2024-12-16T05:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:59:15","slug":"priyanka-lends-support-to-palestinian-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/priyanka-lends-support-to-palestinian-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka lends support to\u00a0Palestinian cause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-1024x802.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-696x545.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-1068x836.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause-537x420.jpg 537w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/12\/Priyanka-lends-support-to-Palestinian-cause.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Priyanka Gandhi Vadra&nbsp; arrived at Parliament premises sporting a bag with &#8220;Palestine&#8221; written on it and emblems, including a watermelon \u2014 a symbol often associated with Palestinian solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wayanad MP has been raising her voice against Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza and expressing solidarity with Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Congress general secretary was seen carrying a handbag emblazoned with the word &#8220;Palestine&#8221; and Palestinian emblems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the gesture was met with criticism from the BJP for &#8220;appeasement,&#8221; Priyanka responded, saying it was typical patriarchy where &#8220;she is being told what to wear and what not to wear&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t subscribe to patriarchy. I will wear what I want to,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abed Elrazeg Abu Jazer, Charge d&#8217;affaires of the Palestine Embassy in New Delhi, had last week called on Ms. Vadra to congratulate the Congress leader on her recent election victory from Kerala&#8217;s Wayanad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, Priyanka slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what she had said were the Israel government&#8217;s &#8220;genocidal actions&#8221; in Gaza, as she accused him and his government of &#8220;barbarism&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priyanka Gandhi Vadra&nbsp; arrived at Parliament premises sporting a bag with &#8220;Palestine&#8221; written on it and emblems, including a watermelon \u2014 a symbol often associated with Palestinian solidarity. The Wayanad MP has been raising her voice against Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza and expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The Congress general secretary was seen carrying a handbag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":351574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,53],"tags":[18999,15533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351576,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351573\/revisions\/351576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/351574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}