Posted on 02/15/2024 6:03:59 AM PST by billorites
More than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a 12-hour hunger strike Friday in solidarity with 17 students at Brown University who refused to eat for eight days to pressure the Brown Corporation to divest from Israel.
Nineteen students at Brown began the strike — which was originally indefinite — on Feb. 2, ahead of the Brown Corporation’s planned meetings beginning Feb. 8.
The students intended to strike until the Brown Corporation considered a resolution to divest from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine,” but they ended the strike after Brown University president Christina H. Paxson denied their request, citing “now-obsolete demands,” per the Brown Daily Herald.
The 17 students ended their strike at 5 p.m. on Feb. 9, along with the Harvard demonstrators and more than 200 other Brown students who fasted for 32 hours in solidarity.
“To send solidarity to @browndivestcoalition for their incredible hunger strike, 30+ Harvard students committed to a day-long hunger strike to prove to university corporations that we will not back down,” the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Coalition wrote in an Instagram post on Friday.
Violet T.M. Barron ’26, an organizer with Harvard Jews for Palestine and a Crimson Editorial editor, said in a video posted on the PSC’s Instagram that she participated in the hunger strike because “until our universities divest, they are complicit and we are complicit — because we pay tuition — in the genocide in Gaza.”
Syd D. Sanders ’24 also said in an interview posted by the PSC that he chose to participate “because we will not rest until we divest.”
Harvard was among six universities — including Yale, UChicago, and Pomona College — whose students participated in solidarity strikes with the strikers at Brown.
My diet is a 16 hour fast EVERY DAY! Posers.
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12 hours! I go longer than that every day!
That’s called “I got interested in something and forgot to eat.”
If you’re intermittent fasting, you really need to go 16 or 17 hours straight, every day. Solid job, Harvard!
“we pay tuition — in the genocide in Gaza.”
Probably the student’s trust fund pays the tuition.
Lol.
I fast 12 hours before bloodwork.
These people are idiots.................
I fast five days a week. I love it.
Too bad college students today are motivated by higher learning and education, rather than meaningless virtue signalling.
I do 18-6 Intermittent Fasting, so every day I go on an 18-Hour “Hunger Strike”.
Color me unimpressed.
Forgot the /sarc.
There is no Genocide in Gaza.
There is Hamascide. Hamas is being totally and forever destroyed as the existential enemy of Israel that has been at war and repeatedly taking hostages for more than 75 years.
Get their names. Make them unemployable.
Otherwise, I presume all Harvard students guilty.
Too bad college students today are motivated by higher learning and education, rather than meaningless virtue signaling. /sarc
Wow! They skipped breakfast. What heroes!
Yes, they are. Twelve hours? Really? That used to be known as “I got all tied up in something mid-day, and missed lunch.” Oh, the HORRORS!!!
Intermittent fasting is healthy.
“...in Solidarity With Brown Protesters”
What’s so hard about saying “Hispanic”?
Gee, they might actually lose some fat.
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