CLAYTON — Two activists who participated in a pro-Palestine protest last spring at Washington University now face charges, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office said Wednesday.
Those charged include Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party in 2024, who is accused of hitting a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him at the protest. Stein, 74, was charged Friday with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault.
In charging documents, Washington University police said demonstrators were given numerous warnings to leave the university’s private campus. Officers moved in for arrests around 8 p.m. Court documents alleged Stein interlocked her arms with other demonstrators and refused to leave.
In an interview with the Post-Dispatch just days after the protest, Stein disputed accounts that she struck an officer.
“While I was being assaulted with a bicycle, one of the police bent down and picked up my foot in order to try to further destabilize me into falling backwards,” Stein said. “And I wiggled out of his grip, you know, in an effort not to fall back on my head.”
I have no dog in the israel-palestine fight, there is no side that can win without committing genocide. What I do know is things are a hell of a lot worse for everybody under Trump.
If you believe this then you have no idea what the conflict is or what has been happening in the region, pretty much ever.
We’re the Germans genocided to end their genocide?
Okay, so what’s your solution, they share the land they both believe they have a god-given right to? How did that work out last time? The time before that?
You don’t get to call the genocide ended if you just move the problem somewhere else.
I don’t think you know anything about the conflict. the Palestinians are demanding the right of return. they just want to go back to their homes and not be second class citizens. they’re not demanding control of the land but of course they should be able to vote on everything their Israeli counterparts can.
The Palestinians are just pawns in this. They have no ability to end the violence towards Israel. This most recent round was started by Iran, perhaps at the behest of Russia.
As for Israel, they’ve been downright tyrannical.
so now you don’t think this is a religious conflict, but anyone advocating for the Palestinians is doing so in bad faith? look, if you don’t know something, you can just not say something.
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Yes… They share the land. And it worked out great. Jews were safely living in Palestine along side Christians and Muslims for longer than any form of Israel ever existed.
It worked out fantastically, until a British Nazi and a group of white quasi Jewish people came up with Zionism and convinced the German Nazis and US totally not Nazis that it would be better if Jews all were forced back to Israel once and for all.
Until Zionism was invented in the late 1800s, it was unthinkable to have a Jewish state (since that’s against the religion), and unthinkable to oppress the natives of the land of Palestine to make a Jewish state.
No, Israel is a settler state, Palestinians are the people that have got most of theirs homes stolen and have their country occupied.
Palestine is not an ethnicity based in religion, by example George Habash, cofounder of the PFLP, was Christian.
The dissolution of the State of Israel by force to end the genocide. But the solution that matters is the one that Palestinians agree among themselves.