California State University students from several campuses have gone on a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinians at risk of famine in Gaza

By Syma Mohammed Published date: 12 May 2025 21:22 BST

More than 30 #California State University (CSU) students are on a hunger strike to protest against #Israel’s blockade of food and water going into Gaza, which has placed the enclave’s population at “critical risk” of famine.

In a video released on Sunday, the students said that the hunger strike was growing across campuses: “It’s day seven of the CSU hunger strike for Gaza. We remain steadfast in our struggle for a free #Palestine…"

  • lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I feel sympathy because they’re fighting for a good cause despite how the establishment demonizes them but I must admit I don’t understand hunger strikes.

    You don’t get any compassion from your enemies, and your allies are already allies. The people in power are participating in the deaths of people at home and around the world, including death by starvation, they don’t give a damn if people starve that’s why they’re here. Do strikers think they are special and will force the starvers to change their genocidal agenda because a student is now doing it to themselves?

    I wouldn’t be so harsh if going hungry wasn’t so dangerous. Hunger can inflict lifetime damage on your brain, you can lose critical abilities like speech, sight, reasoning. Losing a limb to kill a fascist id heroic, but hunger strikes don’t kill anyone but the strikers, and they don’t save anyone either. I mean, do they? Maybe they did in some less fascistic regime, but the current US of A? No chance that’s doing anything.