Student protesters at Princeton University who have embarked upon a hunger strike for Palestine are angry that the school is not obeying their demands that the school is not monitoring their health, and even claim that the school is forcing them to do this.
In short, it’s a total clown show.
The College Fix reports:
Princeton anti-Israel hunger strikers: University ‘forced’ us to do thisSeventeen Princeton students began a hunger strike last Friday until the university agreed to meet with them to discuss divestment from Israel and the dropping of charges against students who had occupied a campus building.According to The Daily Princetonian, student Sameer Riaz said he believed he and his comrades “were forced into” their hunger strike by school officials.Areeq Hasan, another hunger striker, said all those participating are “very well-supported” — unlike “political prisoners who are in Palestine.”David Chmielewski said the strikers’ demands were “not that intense” as activists only wanted a meeting (along with the dismissal of criminal/disciplinary charges against the aforementioned occupiers).He added if Princeton “want[s] to let us starve, then they’re welcome to do that.”
According to the Daily Princetonian, a meeting with school President Christopher Eisgruber went nowhere:
Students claim meeting with Eisgruber was unproductive, hunger strike will continueA group of students, faculty, alumni, and postdocs met with University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83, Dean of the Graduate School Rodney Priestley, and Dean of the School of Public and International Affairs Amaney Jamal on Monday at 11:30 a.m. to discuss the demands of the ongoing sit-in on Cannon Green.The students’ demands, which have been public since the beginning of the sit-in on April 25, include divestment from Israeli companies and American military funding, an academic boycott of Israeli universities, the cultivation of ties with Palestinian academic institutions, and the creation of a center for Palestinian studies with scholarships for people displaced from Gaza.Multiple students present at the meeting told the Daily Princetonian that Eisgruber declined to meet any of their demands.“We simply presented these demands and Eisgruber gave us nothing,” Emanuelle Sippy ’25, one of the students present at the meeting, said during a speech on Cannon Green at around 2:30 p.m.
It’s hard to believe no one is taking these people seriously, isn’t it?
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