Harvard Students Try Fasting:By Madeleine Kearns
The student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, reports that “more than 30 Harvard students hunger strike for 12 hours in solidarity with Brown protestors.” The 17 students at Brown University refused to eat for eight days “to pressure the Brown Corporation to divest from Israel.”
“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.
Hmm. If a hunger strike is “a day-long” commitment, then presumably you’re “backing down” at the end of the day?
Traditionally, for a hunger strike to be effective, it has to pose at least the threat of death or serious injury to the protester who, through striking, is making clear that he or she is willing to die for the cause.
Being willing to skip lunch is rather underwhelming.
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