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.
Bobby Sands, they ain’t.
I would be interested to see the belly fat on the protesters. 12 hours! Indeed.
Its called night tiME!
ARABS.
12 hours? Wait till they have to prep for a colonoscopy.
When I first read the headline I took it to mean they protested with brown skinned people.
“Can’t build a decent car, can’t make a TV set or a VCR worth a ___, got no steel industry left, can’t educate our young people, can’t get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the ___ out of your country all right! Huh? Especially if your country is full of brown people—oh we like that don’t we? That’s our hobby! That’s our new job in the world: bombing brown people. Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya, you got some brown people in your country, tell them to watch the ____ out or we’ll _______ bomb them!”
-George Carlin
So they intermittently fasted as a hunger strike. They went to bed at 9pm and didn’t have breakfast until 9am the next morning. Brave
Kids these days are too fat anyway.
“Politically Correct” was the left wing, campus code for “the in crowd” of the 1980’s at Brown University, and “anti-semitism” defined as “being against Jews” was the rage.
That liberal definition of “anti-semitism” - now flipped 180 degrees - demonstrating the wanton caprice of “the enlightened,’” absolutist, out-rage that has no compass.
Me too! 12 hours is not a hunger strike. Maybe they should call it a beer and chips strike.
The 17 students ended their strike at 5 p.m.“
Wow talk about grit and resolve
Poor things.
They must be nothing but skin and bones now.
I hunger strike for 18 hours every day but I’ve never made a federal case of it.
Whats the big deal here?
The 17 students ended their strike
There are examples of hunger strikers dying after 46 to 73 days of strike,
They didn’t do it right....................
That’s what little college twits call it, I guess. No snacks for 12 hours is suffering.
“...he chose to participate “because we will not rest until we divest.”
To me that’s just a busy day at work when I’m prepping and not cooking,I’m a chef
BU girls are hot.
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