Claim: A clip shows Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein saying “Jews have a homeland in Poland” during an exchange with a man outside Columbia University.
AP Assessment: Incorrect. Stein says “the Jewish people have a homeland” and does not mention an Eastern European country. A caption on the clip, which comes from a Long video First posted on Stein’s social media accounts, it was incorrectly auto-generated to read, according to the candidate’s spokesman, “Jewish people own Poland.” Stan Posted later Another video of the exchange was corrected with captions. They Explained further His comments during an appearance in Columbia, Missouri on Sunday.
Facts: viz Tension rises On college campuses protesting the Israel-Hamas war, social media users are misrepresenting what Stein said at the Ivy League university about the Jewish homeland.
The clip shows Stein, who is Jewish, speaking out against Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip outside an entrance gate to Colombia. After a man standing behind him, who identifies himself as Jewish, says that “the Jewish people have no homeland but Israel,” Stein turns to him and responds with a statement titled is “Poland of the Jewish people.”
“Jill Stein: ‘Jewish people have a homeland in Poland,'” reads an X post that had received more than 6,200 likes and shares as of Monday. “Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust in the extermination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.”
But Stein did not say that there was a Jewish homeland in Poland. “The Jewish people have a homeland,” he told the man, without pointing to a specific place.
“As you can see in the video, Dr. Stein is clearly saying the word ‘homeland,'” Stein spokesman Dave Schwab told The Associated Press in an email. “When the video was originally posted with auto-generated captions, the program mistakenly rendered some text during the segment when a counter-protester was interrupting and trying to speak over him. was
Poland had. The largest number of Jews In Europe before World War II – more than 3 million. His presence in the country went back. Over 1,000 yearsFor Jews fleeing persecution in Western and Central Europe. About 85% of Poland’s Jewish population was killed during the Holocaust. After the war, those who returned faced continued anti-Semitism. gave The Calais Pogrom 1946, during which about 40 Jews were murdered, is a notable example.
Although there were periods in which Polish Jews enjoyed tolerance, they also experienced Significant persecution. In the 15th century, for example, 100,000–200,000 Jews were murdered in what was then eastern Poland. There were Repeated massacres Facilitated the rape and murder of Jews, as well as the looting of their property, that began in Poland and other Eastern European countries in the 19th century.
The clip circulating online comes from a longer video. Posted by Stan. on her social media, including the incorrect caption. After it gained traction, it posted. Its own clip Fixed exchange with caption.
Stan elaborated on his comment. on SundayDuring a community meeting in Columbia, Missouri. They was arrested Protesting with students at Washington University in St. Louis the previous day
“My answer was, well, we actually have many homelands and the Jews are doing very well, thank you, very well, in many countries around the world right now,” he said of the exchange in New York. said
Israel Hamas protests against war have emerged at several campuses including Columbia University, University of Southern California, Harvard University, New York University, Ohio State University, Emory University, University of Michigan and Yale University.
Students are calling on universities to dissociate themselves from any companies that are fueling Israel’s military efforts in Gaza — and in some cases from Israel itself.
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