{"id":81212,"date":"2026-11-11T15:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/how-a-small-newly-socialist-us-city-became-the-second-to-vote-to-cut-ties-with-israel\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T15:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T20:55:04","slug":"how-a-small-newly-socialist-us-city-became-the-second-to-vote-to-cut-ties-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/how-a-small-newly-socialist-us-city-became-the-second-to-vote-to-cut-ties-with-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"How a small, newly socialist US city became the second to vote to cut ties with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Providence, Rhode Island, chose to pull foreign investments from countries that profit from genocide<\/p>\n<p>The tectonic blue wave that washed over the country in last week\u2019s midterms also brought about a historic night for the pro-Palestine movement.<\/p>\n<p>Up and down the ballot, candidates who demanded an end to Israel\u2019s war in Gaza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/08\/democratic-party-midterm-election-centrism\">resoundingly defeated opponents<\/a> funded by the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/11\/providence-rhode-island-israel-divestment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Providence, Rhode Island, chose to pull foreign investments from countries that profit from genocide The tectonic blue wave that washed over the country in last week\u2019s midterms also brought about a historic night for the pro-Palestine movement. Up and down the ballot, candidates who demanded an end to Israel\u2019s war in Gaza resoundingly &#8230; <a title=\"How a small, newly socialist US city became the second to vote to cut ties with Israel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/how-a-small-newly-socialist-us-city-became-the-second-to-vote-to-cut-ties-with-israel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How a small, newly socialist US city became the second to vote to cut ties with Israel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}