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.
“More than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a 12-hour hunger strike”
More than 30 of them. I adhere to a 12 hour hunger strike every day. LOL
Oooooh! 12 whole hours! That’ll teach em!
Wake me when they either pass out or pass on from hunger- then we will know they were serious about their asinine terror coddling agenda
Harvard sucks dead goats.
Not much of a Fast.
In fact, it was over pretty FAST. LOL.
Proper brainwashing technique is to browbeat the peons to believe X.
When that is complete then proclaim that believers in X are enemies of the state and all good citizens must now believe Y.
When the sheeple start believing Y you own them.
There is a very different kind of student at Harvard these days. Odds are she is getting financial aid and odds are she's been an activist for years and that's why she was selected for admission. Harvard is getting exactly what they wished for.
>>The 17 students ended their strike at 5 p.m.“<<
Just in time for dinner. That’s very impressive!
EXPEL every single one of them.
Most people fast from 6 pm to 6 am anyway. This is a joke.
Brown protestors?
I know Cleveland has never won a Championship, but give me a break.
It’s not a hunger strike until a striker is hospitalized or dies.
Bobby Sands set the benchmark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands
Sometimes I hunger strike from 630 pm to 7 am.
That’s OVER 12 hours of some sort of Solidarity.
A twelve hour hunger strike amounts to an early dinner or late breakfast.
Saw on Fox News this morning that Brandon will now REFUSE TO DEPORT palestinian student muzzie troublemakers here causing these kinds of pro-terrorist protests, no matter what crimes they have committed
I’m thinking they should shoot for 12 months and see if that works
“...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...”
Yeah, I don’t think we’re even CLOSE to that point just yet. So far, Israel is still in the midst of the “kicking an anthill” stage. The REAL power of Hamas is currently sitting pretty in places like Qatar, Oman, Dubai, or attending Uni in a number of US Ivy Leagues, and directing all the gradually-escalating protests. I fear that the next stage of the conflict is going to be fought in western cities.
Go 12 weeks and I’ might give a wet scat about them. But on 2nd thought, I doubt it.
Bobby Sands was just some mother’s son...
Wow a whole twelve hours? That’s about as long as sleeping off a New Year’s Eve party.
I’m sure they got a participation trophy for their “courageous” sacrifice.
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