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US presidential candidate, Jill Stein, says because of AIPAC’s $100 million funding of the US election, it has become '‘politically toxic’ to speak out against the genocide in Gaza.

‘If we have concerns about the right to life before birth, how about a right to life after birth,’ she said in reference to Israel’s killing of innocent children and the elderly in Gaza. US President Joe Biden 'can end this war with a phone call’, she added.

    • JayEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      That’s not what she says about sitting there at the head table in December 2015. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/democracy-now/clip/why-jill-stein-attended-moscow-dinner-with-putin-and-flynn

      Also, it’s kind of a weird coincidence that that russian propaganda just happened to launch a pro Jill campaign that helped take votes away from Clinton the following year. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166 (Not saying Jill is necessarily a russian asset, but Putin still used her for his advantage.)

        • JayEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          My bad. I called it the head table because that’s what both the reporter and Jill said in the interview.

          • MarciaLynnDorsett@lemmy.world
            12·
            5 months ago

            really? can you link that? i’ve been arguing about this irrelevant photo for over half a decade and this is the first i’ve heard it was the head table.

              • MarciaLynnDorsett@lemmy.world
                12·
                5 months ago

                damn. i have watched that interview a dozen times and missed that it was the head table. what i did hear (and transcribed just now while watching it) was:

                “war has failed in the middle east”

                “we need a peace offensive”

                “there was no interpreter”

                “no introductions were made”

                “it was a chance to lift up a different point of view about US … as well as Russian foreign policy.”

                “I spent the dinner talking to the german diplomat”

                “i wasn’t paid a penny.”

                “i declined sponsorship”

                “nothing happened at that dinner”

                “that picture circulates without a single fact”

                “i was there with a number of peace advocates”

                i’m sure you can understand how i found it forgettable that it was the head table, and i hope you can forgive my assertion that it was not.

                • JayEnglish
                  2·
                  5 months ago

                  No problem, all in all it’s a pretty minor detail that doesn’t change anything anyway. Like I said, I don’t think she was acting under Putin’s orders, just that he (and his propaganda machine) jumped on the chance to take advantage of things to help the Orange guy.

      • anticolonialist@lemmy.world
        16·
        5 months ago

        She didn’t take any votes from Clinton, that’s not how voting works. We would not have voted for Clinton even if there was no one else on the ballot.

        • MarciaLynnDorsett@lemmy.world
          21·
          5 months ago

          i have been defending my vote for jill stein for 6 years. please dont tell me what i know. she bought a ticket to an event for one of the few media outlets that would give her a platform. she didn’t know who else was assigned to her table. putin wasn’t one of those, but he sat there for a few moments. he spoke only in russian and didn’t engage with anyone speaking english.