{"id":262237,"date":"2024-05-13T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=262237"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:49:25","slug":"we-feel-unheard-hunger-striking-princeton-students-vow-to-fast-until-divestment-demands-are-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/we-feel-unheard-hunger-striking-princeton-students-vow-to-fast-until-divestment-demands-are-met\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Feel Unheard&#8221;: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast until Divestment Demands Are Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>10 May 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">They are also calling for all charges to be dropped against a number of students arrested on campus in late April as part of the encampment. Areeq Hasan, a graduating senior at Princeton who has not eaten for a week, says<\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\"> the hunger strike was a response to the university&#8217;s stonewalling. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">&#8220;We feel unheard at every step of the way, so therefore we resorted to a hunger strike,&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\"> says Hasan, noting the long history of hunger strikes as a means of protest.<\/span><\/span><em><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\"> &#8220;It is in solidarity with the history of Palestinian political prisoners since 1968. \u2026 We&#8217;re tapping into this long-standing tradition with both Palestinian political prisoners and also in the Irish and Indian liberation movements.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;We Feel Unheard&quot;: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast Until Divestment Demands Are Met\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bq6g-fkrsu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 May 2024 &#8211; Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel&#8217;s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[229,609,87,865,2662,88,444,1243,427,1378,718,3294,70],"class_list":["post-262237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-activism","tag-demonstrations","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hunger-strikes","tag-israel","tag-nonviolence","tag-nonviolent-action","tag-palestine","tag-protests","tag-resistance","tag-students-anti-genocide-gaza","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262240,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262237\/revisions\/262240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}