Green Party 2024 presidential candidate Jill Stein was amongst 100 folks arrested Saturday at Washington University in St. Louis, her marketing campaign supervisor confirmed to Fox News Digital.
Stein’s marketing campaign supervisor, Jason Call, mentioned that he, Stein and deputy marketing campaign supervisor Kelly Merrill-Cayer had been all arrested on the encampment on the campus.
“The demand from the encampment was specifically for the university to divest from Boeing, which manufactures munitions used in the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza at their nearby St Charles facility,” Call mentioned to Fox News Digital. “The Stein campaign supports the demands of the students and their peaceful protest and assembly on campus. Student protest for peace and civil liberties has always represented the best part of our collective moral conscience. Solidarity.”
More than 100 folks had been arrested on the Washington University anti-Israel protest on Saturday, which is one in all many demonstrations happening this week in school campuses throughout the nation.
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“The Stein campaign supports the demands of the students and their peaceful protest and assembly on campus. Student protest for peace and civil liberties has always represented the best part of our collective moral conscience. Solidarity,” the marketing campaign’s assertion
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Stein’s arrest comes amid surging anti-Israel protests throughout the nation, with incidents of antisemitism additionally on the rise.
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USC has closed its campus to non-residents and canceled on-stage graduations. More than 100 had been arrested this week at Columbia University and dozens had been arrested on the University of Texas on Wednesday as effectively. Demonstrations and protests have additionally taken place at Yale, Harvard, Minnesota, Johns Hopkins and Arizona State University, the place 93 folks had been arrested on Saturday morning.
Fox News’ Scott McDonald contributed to this report