Police arrest former presidential candidate Jill Stein during pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Washington

US police arrested former presidential candidate of the left-wing Green party Jill Stein during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Washington University in St. Louis.

The doctor-turned-activist and politician was among more than 80 people arrested after the large group refused to leave the private university campus.

U.S. police also arrested Stein campaign manager Jason Cole and deputy campaign manager Kelly Merrill Kay.

Stein said they stand “here with the students at Washoe University, defending our constitutional rights, defending the American people who want this genocide to end now.”

Jill Stein,73 years old, became the Green Party’s presidential candidate in 2012 and 2016.
 

Thousands of students in 44 American universities and colleges and many European universities continue demonstrations demanding an end to the genocide committed by the occupation army in the Gaza Strip, and denouncing the continuing American and Western support for Israeli crimes.

The protests escalated despite police and security forces' arrests of students and pro-Palestinian demonstrators, and threats by university administrators to carry out further arrests and punitive measures if protests continue.

From Los Angeles to New York, through Austin, Boston, Chicago and Atlanta, the movement of American students supporting the Palestinian cause is expanding, with protests held at internationally renowned universities such as Harvard, Yale, Colombia and Princeton.

The students in the universities are trying to pressure the administrations to withdraw investments from the occupation entity and the companies supporting it, and to boycott the Israeli universities that are complicit in the genocide against the Palestinian people.