As President Joe Biden's administration bombs Yemen's Houthis, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and independent candidate Cornel West will attend the Council on American-Islamic Relations conference on Gaza in Washington on Saturday. CAIR) is performing a play to win Muslim votes at the march.
Israel's response to the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack by Iranian proxy Hamas has divided the left, with some, including Biden, supporting Israel and others calling for a ceasefire. Progressive candidates appear poised to take political advantage of the fractured Democratic coalition. He attended a pro-Gaza march in Washington, DC.
inside her remarksMr. Stein called for a ceasefire and an end to all aid to Israel, in stark contrast to Mr. Biden's stance.
“We have the power to tell our elected officials what to do, and that means we need to stop the flow of arms and money to apartheid Israel,” Stein said at the protest. I told the people. “We need to remove advisors, troops, warships, ammunition and weapons from the crime scene.”
Conversely, on the day of the attack, Biden said his administration's support for Israel's security was rock-solid and unwavering, and called for $23.5 billion in humanitarian and military aid to Israel, compared to $61.5 billion and $7.4 billion for Ukraine. He said he had hoped to match the dollar amount. For Taiwan.
Stein called on voters to sign a pledge to “stop genocide through our votes” by not supporting “any candidate who supports genocide.”
“But they want us to shut up and disappear, so we won't stop there. We will also stop the genocide by calling for a ceasefire now and an end to occupation and apartheid.” “I am going to support the candidates who are fighting for it, and I am committed to supporting them,” she said.
What should be noted is late December after Mr. Biden's inauguration. approved Regarding emergency arms sales to Israel, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell claimed the president was enabling genocide.
“Unfortunately, President Biden now appears intent on ignoring the American people and enabling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's campaign of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and mass starvation in Gaza,” Mitchell said.
West is expected to speak later at the event, which comes amid heightened tensions between the Biden administration and the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen.
Harvard University professor Cornel West speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) at the Whitmore Center Arena at the University of New Hampshire on February 10, 2020. (Durham, West, New Hampshire) Elected as a third-party candidate for president in 2024. (/Andrew Harnik, File/AP)
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