UC-Berkeley Lecturer Goes on ‘Starvation Diet’ to Show Support for Palestine
“will only ingest 250 calories a day”
Do the people who do this realize that the vast majority of other people don’t care?
The College Fix reports:
UC Berkeley lecturer on ‘starvation diet’ in ‘solidarity with Palestine’
A University of California Berkeley lecturer recently began a “starvation diet” to demonstrate his “solidarity” with the Palestinians against Israel in their ongoing war.
The Daily Californian reports Peyrin Kao, who teaches courses in electrical engineering and computer science, will only ingest 250 calories a day, which allegedly is the “average amount of nourishment available to Palestinians in Gaza,” according to the organization Oxfam.
Kao’s semester course page currently reads “Apologies in advance if I’m in poor health during lectures. I’m currently undergoing a starvation diet in support of …” followed by a link to the Berkeley EECS [Electrical Engineering Computer Science] 4 Palestine Instagram page.
So far, Kao’s meals have consisted of “plain pasta.” As of Thursday, he said he was feeling “fatigued,” but noted “his experience so far is ‘nothing’ in comparison to the conditions Palestinians in Gaza are facing.”
Kao added “I don’t have to worry about being displaced at a moment’s notice; I don’t have to watch my family and community starve.”
According to a statement on the Berkeley Students for Justice in Palestine Instagram, Kao will maintain his minimal caloric intake until the university agrees to
- “acknowledge Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza,”
- acknowledge UC Berkeley’s role “in the development of war technologies that have expanded Zionist cloud services, AI-powered surveillance,” and more,
- pledge to dismantle “relationships” with the “military industrial complex,” and
- “institutionalize ethical standards and practices for collaborations and funding to align with the international community’s framing of international humanitarian law.”
Kao recently posted a video featuring “his friend and colleague” Dave from the lecturers union who joined him in his “hunger strike” for a whopping 24 hours.
Dave requested “ethics to be introduced in EECS instruction, and […] more engagement among union members and other university employees on moral issues tied to their labor.”
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Oxfam lies as usual (I hope everyone here knows better than to donate so much as a used sock to them), but if that’s all he wants to eat it’s nobody’s business but his. But if, by his own doing, he’s too weak to do his job then he should be put on unpaid leave.
Not like Oxfam hasn’t been known to lie, obfuscate, exaggerate, or misdirect.
Self correcting problem.
Weaponizing compassion requires misplaced compassion.
All my compassion is properly placed, thank you very much.
Once upon a time, Hamas terrorists imprisoned in Israel went on a hunger strike. Israeli civilians gathered upwind of the prison, and had a mass barbecue to enrich the terrorists’ experience with fresh delicious aromas. The hunger strike ended that day.
“I’m going on a starvation diet”. Ok, go ahead? I predict it will be over in a few days and that will be that. If he really wanted to show solidarity he should go over to Gaza and lecture them.
Dumpster Muffin is living in tree house and refusing to come down and has bottle water delivered by rope?
Why do these obscure, self-important, Islamofascist morons believe the world gives a damn if they starve themselves for Philistinism? Gaza has been a problem since very ancient times, and every ancient civilization in the region had problems with them from the Egyptians to the Hittites all the way to the Ottomans who all considered them to be vermin.
Why didn’t the sons of Jacob eradicate the occupants of Canaan as ordered when they had the chance?
Pride. Greed. Perhaps lust. No doubt disguised, at times at least, as compassion.
Welp, here we are, Joshua. Thanks a shit ton.