Remember last November when a group of eight people, including "Sex and the City" star and former New York City gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, declared a hunger strike in front of the White House, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza? Are they all dead now? You would have thought at least People Magazine would have reported on a celebrity like Nixon starving to death.
Apparently feeling they weren't getting enough attention, a group of Princeton student protesters for Hamas announced a hunger strike, but it sounds like it's been rough. They said it was "shameful and cruel" that Princeton wouldn't let them set up tents, leaving them "vulnerable and unsafe." Now they're complaining that the school administration isn't monitoring their vitals. "They are not at all taking care of us," they said.
This plus-size participant read her list of demands off of her iPhone a few days ago.
Princeton student announces she is on HUNGER STRIKE for Palestine.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) May 6, 2024
The woman reads a list of demands for her ‘solidarity fast’ and vows to starve until the university caves to her demands. pic.twitter.com/rkpemxJU9h
Now the hunger strikers are "literally shaking," which has us literally shaking.
Princeton University students—who are voluntarily participating in a self-imposed hunger strike—are “literally shaking and immunocompromised” because the University is ignoring their demands.
— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) May 8, 2024
Did they…not expect to be hungry? pic.twitter.com/GZqTrNbpu4
They knew what a hunger strike was, right? And that the human body needs food?
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This is hilarious. 😂
— Shelley G (@ShelleyGldschmt) May 8, 2024
It appears to me that the specimen holding the bullhorn could go quite a number of days on stored calories.
— Orpheus (@Antoine01686702) May 8, 2024
Poor kid. No one told her that a possible side effect of a hunger strike was being hungry.
— Mike Runner (@MikeRunner14) May 8, 2024
Let them starve. My goodness, this is embarrassing.
— Ankorus (@ankorus4) May 8, 2024
It is amazing that we are supposed to submit because they threaten self harm.
— Kai Hypko (@KaiHypko) May 8, 2024
The girl on the right looks like she might have eaten another protester! They should do a head count to see if anybody’s missing!😂
— T.A. Arceneau (@TAArceneau) May 8, 2024
Bunch of jokers. Just wait for them to tap out.
— Anton Cheng (@antonc117) May 8, 2024
Softest generation ever.
— capnrob9756 (@capnrob9756) May 8, 2024
They expected others to cater to them immediately because they really think they're that special.
— Sky (@evo4g63t) May 8, 2024
Is Palestine free yet? Did Israel stop the genocide?
The funny part is their hunger strike has zero effect on me.
— Dustin Schimmel (@dustin_sch68112) May 8, 2024
This editor had dinner while writing this post. Salmon. It was delicious.
When nobody tells you "NO" for the first 18 or 20 years of your life it can be frightening and disorienting when it finally happens.
— DDeardorff (@USADeardorff) May 8, 2024
I’m literally shaking from laughing so hard
— GrandeBeto (@GrandeBeto2) May 8, 2024
When I was 6, I was mad that parents wouldn’t let me do something. I figured that I would show them by running away, only I got a suitcase & hid under my bed with it. I waited a long time, but they never came looking for me.
— ❌isshelen (@gmalmom_helen) May 8, 2024
That’s what this is.
They should have followed Harvard's lead and announced a 12-hour hunger strike.
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