Did you hear the one about the Israel-haters who went on a hunger strike?
It was 12-hours long and they abandoned it immediately after their demands were denied.
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.
But they did back down. Big time.
Amateurs! - say the many, if not most, Jews in the world who fast for 25 hours twice a year - on Tisha Be'Av to mourn many calamities that have befallen us throughout history (beginning thousands of years ago), and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, to focus solely on the spiritual. Many of us fast also on other "minor" fast days for 12 hours.
And here we have these privileged university students "suffering" for a whole 12-hours and then getting back to eating the second they were told their demands would not be meat met.
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