{"id":109231,"date":"2016-10-30T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109231"},"modified":"2016-10-30T15:56:51","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T23:56:51","slug":"j-street-staffer-is-second-woman-to-accuse-shavit-of-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109231","title":{"rendered":"J Street Staffer Is Second Woman To Accuse Shavit of Sexual Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/news\/352979\/j-street-staffer-is-second-woman-to-accuse-shavit-of-sexual-misconduct\/\">Forward<\/a>: It should have been a simple errand. The 26-year-old female J Street staff member was tasked with picking up Israeli author Ari Shavit at the Baltimore train station and driving him to speak at a J Street event at Johns Hopkins University to promote his bestselling book \u201cMy Promised Land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the encounter that April 2014 morning turned out differently than the staff member expected. After she picked him up, she said Shavit suggested coffee before the event. The two sat down at a cafe in the campus bookstore, a Barnes &#038; Noble. Shavit began asking the staffer \u2014 who asked the her name be withheld to protect her privacy \u2014 questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, wanting to know her personal connection to the issue, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through the conversation, she said, Shavit reached his hand across the table, as if to shake her hand. The young woman found it \u201cweird,\u201d but shook his hand back. Then, she said, Shavit\u2019s hand seemed to grow limp. He began rubbing her hand with his in a style she called \u201chand groping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very uncomfortable,\u201d she said. She took her hand away.<\/p>\n<p>Shavit told the staffer that he would love to see her again when she visits Israel, she recalled. She leads tours to Israel, she responded, and she was sure that a group would enjoy meeting with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thinking about the relationship with him from a professional standpoint,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But Shavit apparently wasn\u2019t. \u201cHe said, \u2018No, alone.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The staffer said that she was very busy on such trips, but could perhaps make time for coffee. She recalled Shavit didn\u2019t like that idea. \u201cNo, I want to get drinks,\u201d she said he told her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no misinterpreting\u201d what he wanted at that point, the staffer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward: It should have been a simple errand. The 26-year-old female J Street staff member was tasked with picking up Israeli author Ari Shavit at the Baltimore train station and driving him to speak at a J Street event at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=109231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42794,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ari-shavit","category-journalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109232,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109231\/revisions\/109232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}