(PM.) Students at New Jersey’s elite Ivy League Princeton University have been on a hunger strike since Friday, and they want the world to know that the university just doesn’t seem to care that they are starving themselves out there on the quad. Also they are hungry, it turns out.
The student activists, who claim to be starving themselves in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, have issued a set of demands to Princeton’s administration that primarily involve an absence of consequences for the student activists.
Hunger strikers on campus took time out of their busy schedule banging on drums and chanting “free, free Palestine” to complain that they are hungry.
“This is absolutely unfair,” cried a keffiyeh-clad girl in a medical facemask reading from her phone. “My peers are I, we are starving, we are physically exhausted. I’m quite literally shaking right now as you can see.”
I wonder if anyone ever told her that the result of a failed hunger strike is literally death?
Someone tell her to Google Bobby Sands, who starved himself to death for a cause.
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) May 8, 2024
“We are both cold and hot at the same time,” she complained, “we are all immunocompromised. And based off the university’s meeting yesterday with some of our bargaining team, they would love to continue physically weakening us because they can’t stand to say no to unjust murder.”
“Shame!” The off screen students bellowed, banging their drums.
“I will share,” she went on, reading her prepared statement, “I truly do not believe I am doing anything special. This is my choice and I would not spend by birthday doing anything other than being here and standing in solidarity with you all, and standing in solidarity with our siblings and innocent people in Gaza.”
Big cheers and whoops erupted from the crowd before she continued. “No matter how physically weak we may be, united we have never been stronger, our resolve has never been stronger.” Then she led her fellow physically weakened Ivy Leaguers in an old labor chant: “The people united will never be defeated!”
“Us, as strikers, we will continue to starve until they meet our demands,” another student said in exasperated tones into a megaphone. “In addition, I would like to note that the administration is also lying to the media.”
Gaza protestor at Princeton University: “We will continue to starve until they meet our demands.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 8, 2024
