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.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🖕
The pro-Palestinian students at Harvard are NOT the cream of the crop!
Their ringleader is a black African who is majoring in African studies!
Harvard Admissions really flubbed when they admitted that bozo!
Yet the hostages who were just liberated from Hamas captivity reported that they were kept hungry. Clearly the hostages suffered more from hunger for over 100 days than these students would suffer in their lifetimes.
There was a time when I would undertake a liquids-only fast from midnight on Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday until after an evening Ash Wednesday liturgy...twenty one hours, more or less.
Now as Orthodox Christian clergy it is pretty much 12 hours every Saturday night until after Sunday Divine Liturgy--sometimes more depending on how many "extras" follow the Liturgy.
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.
And after the 12 hours, they went and got their CBC blood draw for their annual physicals.
RIght!?
LOLOL
Snowflakes
We Orthodox laypeople do the 12 hour pre-Communion fast, too!
No Harvard or Pali connection required!
If you finish supper at 7:00 PM, then eat breakfast at 7:00 AM then you have had a 12 hour hunger strike.
I know they’re Harvard students, but somebody tell them that it’s not worth starving yourself if you only got into Brown.
12 hours…………OMG, LOL, LOL, LOL, this goes to show you just how WEAK MINDED these IDIOTS are!! Complete and total MORONS!!!
I would be more impressed if they would put away their cellphones for 12 hours......................
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