{"id":36181,"date":"2020-10-12T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=36181"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T18:05:39","slug":"mainstream-media-finally-covers-israel-lobby-corruption-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/12\/mainstream-media-finally-covers-israel-lobby-corruption-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Media Finally Covers Israel Lobby Corruption in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did it take <b>a full year<\/b> before a single mainstream mass media outlet reported on <i><b>Virginia Israel Advisory Board corruption<\/b><\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>They had the <i><b>free<\/b><\/i> book: <a href=\"https:\/\/virginia.israellobby.org\/chap1\/index.html\">The Israel Lobby Enters State Government Project Biodiesel &#8211; The Jerusalem Connection and the Tobacco Commission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmea.org\/2020-january-february\/partners-in-corruption-the-virginia-israel-advisory-board-and-the-tobacco-commission.html\"><i>Washington Report on Middle East Affairs<\/i> Special Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was the free <b>Audio Book<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xJg1OTyR840&#038;t=14003s\">The Israel Lobby Enters State Government<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Antiwar.com was <a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/smith-grant\/2020\/08\/13\/virginia-israel-advisory-board-deal-improper-says-ig\/\">on the case<\/a>!<\/b><br \/> Virginia Israel Advisory Board Deal Improper Says IG Head of a billion-dollar state funding pool promises to behave<\/p>\n<p>The <b><i>Scott Horton Show<\/i><\/b> was all over it.<br \/> Grant Smith on the <a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/scotthortonshow\/8-14-20-grant-smith-on-the-unscrupulous-dealings-of-the-virginia-israel-advisory-board\/\">Unscrupulous Dealings of the Virginia Israel Advisory Board<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>It is now a Full Year Later<\/b>&#8230;.and <a href=\"https:\/\/richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/ap\/tobacco-commission-grants-can-leave-communities-on-the-hook\/article_0be3d06b-a2a1-5943-bc48-9bde321cac00.html\">Mainstream Media is only scratching the surface<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Watch this short YouTube video!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KtNDK_jL2mE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did it take a full year before a single mainstream mass media outlet reported on Virginia Israel Advisory Board corruption? They had the free book: The Israel Lobby Enters State Government Project Biodiesel &#8211; The Jerusalem Connection and the Tobacco Commission They had the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Special Report There was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-36181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36184,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36181\/revisions\/36184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=36181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}