The US Green Party on Saturday nominated Jill Stein, a harsh critic of Israel, as its presidential candidate.

At a convention attended by hundreds in Houston, Texas, the party also nominated human rights activist Ajumu Baraka as her running mate.

Before entering politics, Stein was a practicing physician for 25 years. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, she transitioned into activism in the mid-1990s.

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Like the Green Party as a whole, Stein supports the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel, or BDS. She places Israel in the company of non-democratic American allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt. In tweets, she has accused Israel of “the pillage of Palestine,” and written that Israel’s “war crimes & human rights violations are off the charts.”