OAN’s Elizabeth Bolbelding
11:10am – Sunday, April 28, 2024
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein was one of 100 people arrested over the weekend at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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On Saturday, Mr. Stein, 73, was detained at the University of Washington after participating in an anti-Israel protest with other campaign staff that resulted in the Green Party presidential candidate getting into a scuffle with law enforcement.
Anger over the university’s involvement in the Gaza war has sparked protests across the United States, including among students at the University of Washington.
Mr. Stein’s campaign manager, Jason Cole, reported that Mr. Stein and his deputy campaign manager, Kelly Merrill Kaier, were all taken into custody at a campus campground.
“Demands from the encampment specifically asked the university to divest from Boeing, whose nearby St. Charles facility manufactures munitions used in the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.” said Cole. fox news digital. “Stein’s campaign supports student demands and peaceful protests and rallies on campus. Student protests for peace and civil liberties always challenge our collective moral It has represented the best parts of conscience.
“Stein’s campaign supports student demands and peaceful protests and rallies on campus. Student protests for peace and civil liberties always challenge our collective moral We have represented the best of conscience. Solidarity,” the campaign statement said.
Mr. Stein also participated in an anti-Israel protest at Columbia University on Friday. Despite threats from the university, demonstrators occupied the campus and formed a camp that they would not disperse.
Stein said Columbia University’s endowment includes stock in Microsoft, which supplies computers to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and that the university has given “blank checks” to help finance the war in Gaza. He claims to be writing.
Stein’s arrest coincides with an increase in anti-Israel demonstrations and an increase in anti-Semitic incidents nationwide.
On-stage graduation ceremonies were canceled on the University of Southern California campus, and outside visitors were prohibited from entering. There were more than 100 arrests at Columbia University this week, and dozens at the University of Texas on Wednesday. There were also protests and demonstrations at Yale University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University, and 93 people were taken into custody early Saturday.
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