{"id":111026,"date":"2026-01-24T14:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:08:29","slug":"queens-university-group-march-to-us-consulate-to-take-a-stand-against-american-empire-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111026\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s University group march to US Consulate to \u2018take a stand against American empire\u2019 \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Palestinian solidarity organisation at Queen\u2019s University Belfast marched to the US Consulate on Saturday to \u2018take a stand against the American empire\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The QUB Palestine Assembly, which describes itself as a \u2018coalition of staff and students,\u2019 began marching from the Queen\u2019s Students\u2019 Union at 1pm, heading towards the US Consulate building situated on the Malone Road in south Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The group, which has been active on campus since 2023, said in a social media post that the US\u2019 recent threats against Greenland and attacks against Venezuela, as well as its \u201cdecades long complicity in the occupation and brutalisation of the Palestinian people,\u201d \u201ccannot stand\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEvery day, money which could be spent on welfare, education, healthcare, or other services desperately needed for the North are funnelled into American corporations and oligarchs,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur money, our airports, and our land is being used by the United States to brutalise and occupy the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Palestinian solidarity organisation at Queen\u2019s University Belfast marched to the US Consulate on Saturday to \u2018take a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15970,8002,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-111026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-march","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}