Presidential candidate arrested at anti-Israel protest — RT World News

Jill Stein of the US Green Party was arrested during a pro-Palestinian rally at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Stein's arrest came amid a national crackdown on anti-Israel demonstrations.

Stein, her campaign manager and deputy campaign manager, were among 100 people arrested at a protest camp on the University of Washington campus on Saturday. Video footage shows the 73-year-old being led away from the camp by three police officers, with her hands apparently tied behind her back with zip ties.

Jason Cole, Stein's campaign manager, said in a statement that the camp was set up to demand that the university divest from Boeing, which makes the weapons the Israeli military uses to strike Gaza.

“Stein’s campaign supports students’ demands, peaceful protest, and gathering on campus.” Call said. “Student protest for peace and civil liberties has always represented the best part of our collective moral conscience. Symbiosis.”

The University of Washington camp was one of about four dozen set up on campuses across the United States and Canada in recent weeks. In addition to demanding that their universities divest from companies linked to Israel, the demonstrators called on the US government to stop its financial and military support for Israel during the war in Gaza.

Police officers arrested hundreds of demonstrators in raids on 21 universities on Wednesday, then hundreds more in similar raids on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. While this was a repressive campaign Encourage By mainstream Democrats and Republicans alike, it has been condemned by progressive leftists and libertarian-leaning members of the Republican Party.

Pro-Israel activists claim that the protests are anti-Semitic in nature, and that some demonstrators have publicly expressed their support for Hamas. In an attempt to justify a police raid on a protest camp at Northeastern University in Boston on Saturday, school authorities announced… claimed That cheers “Kill the Jews” He heard her voice at camp the night before. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators deny these allegations.

Stein is an American Jewish activist and long-time critic of the State of Israel. It opposes the construction of Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and accuses Israel of violating human rights. “Genocide” in Gaza.

Stein ran for President of the United States in 2012 and 2016, receiving just over 1% of the popular vote in the 2016 election with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. In November, she announced that she would run for the White House again this year, promising environmental reforms “A new foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law and human rights.”

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