A Princeton student is going viral this week for saying she’s “starving” after going on a voluntary hunger strike to protest Israel’s war against Hamas.
“This is absolutely unfair. My peers and I, we are starving. We are physically exhausted. I am quite literally shaking right now as you can see,” the protester said into a megaphone.
“We are both hot and cold at the same time. We are all immunocompromised and based on 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,” she said to cheers.
“I will say I truly do not feel like I am doing anything special. This is my choice, and I would not spend my birthday doing anything other than being here,” she said.
“No matter how physically weak we may be, united we have never been stronger,” she added as the crowd began to chant, “The people united will never be defeated!”
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NEW: Pro-Palestine protester at Princeton says she is "literally shaking" because she is starving and "immunocompromised."
The woman accused the school of purposely "physically weakening" her and her peers.
"This is absolutely unfair. My peers and I, we are starving. We are… pic.twitter.com/54TL9lIKOV
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 8, 2024
From The New York Post:
A student-led hunger strike began Friday, with protesters demanding the school meet with them to discuss divestment and drop the criminal and disciplinary charges against two students who were arrested for erecting tents and 13 other peers who were arrested for trespassing an academic hall last month, Princeton’s student newspaper, the Daily Princetonian, reported Monday.
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According to the student newspaper, at least 15 students were taking part in the hunger strike Sunday night.
It was not immediately clear how that number may have changed throughout the week.
School president Christopher Eisgruber, graduate school dean Rodney Priestley and Amaney Jamal, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, told students in an email Tuesday that administrators were working with the protesters.
More over at The New York Post:
‘Princeton Princess’ whines that she’s ‘starving,’ blames university after choosing to go on anti-Israel hunger strike https://t.co/SDy57wtNth pic.twitter.com/p7JAAONBic
— New York Post (@nypost) May 9, 2024
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