Pro-Palestine students in Princeton call for hunger strike

At least 14 Princeton University studentssouthwest of NY, They have started an indefinite hunger strike in solidarity with the population of the Gaza Stripobject of a Israeli military offensive. The protesters have been camped on the campus for ten days in the Gaza Solidarity Camp.

The hunger strike started on friday and will continue until their demands are met: meeting with university management to discuss Israel-related investments and divestment proposals and cultural and academic boycott of Israelreported the organizers of the protest.

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Los participants in the hunger strike have expressed their solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine “who have been systematically subjected to famine and deprived of food in what is already one of the worst humanitarian disasters in human history.”

Also they ask for amnesty by criminal and disciplinary sanctions imposed on protest participants and reversing bans on campus access and the expulsions of students from the residence halls, according to the portal of North Jersey news. A total of 15 protesters were arrested on Monday at this university and hundreds arrested in other pro-Palestinian protests in universities throughout the United States.

In the last weekend count, At least 40 mass arrests were recorded at the moment which totaled more than 2,100 people arrested.

Millions of Gazans continue to suffer the siege of the State of Israel. Two million inhabitants now face induced famine. Unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people,” asked the conveners of Princeton’s Divestment Against Apartheid Israel.

In this context, and after a escalation in arrests against university students who in the US have shown their support for Palestinethere are several institutions that have chosen the path of dialogue or even allow demonstrations.

Northwestern University in Illinois; Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington; Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis have negotiated agreements with students, while others, including Wesleyan in Connecticut and the University of California at Berkeley, are allowing protest encampments to continue.

At Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, for example, a pro-Palestinian camp that was installed on the campus was lifted peacefully last Tuesday, because the authorities negotiated with the students, according to what was stated The Guardian.

According to the British media, “the students who agreed to dismantle their demonstration in exchange for a seat at the table at an upcoming meeting with the Brown University Corporation did so knowing that a satisfactory response to the protesters’ demands for divestment is far away. to be a guarantee.”

In colleges across the US have had university protests and even in Canada and Mexico.

CIVILITY

• Northwestern University was the first American school to announce an agreement for its students to open their pro-Palestinian camp; Then other schools followed.
• The institution committed to providing information about the investments it makes to students who require it.
• Likewise, it will grant scholarships to five Palestinian students and support to at least two professors belonging to the same nation.
• Establishment of a house for Muslim, Middle Eastern and North African students.

With information from DPA.

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