Sometimes university students get a little busy and end up skipping a meal. That’s not out of the ordinary. But what is strange is how The Crimson applauded a small group of students for not eating lunch just one time and called it a “hunger strike.”

According to The Crimson:

More than 30 pro-Palestinian Harvard students participated in a 12-hour hunger strike Friday in solidarity with 17 students at Brown University who refused to eat for eight days to pressure the Brown Corporation to divest from Israel.

Nineteen students at Brown began the strike — which was originally indefinite — on Feb. 2, ahead of the Brown Corporation’s planned meetings beginning Feb. 8.

The students intended to strike until the Brown Corporation considered a resolution to divest from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine,” but they ended the strike after Brown University president Christina H. Paxson denied their request, citing “now-obsolete demands,” per the Brown Daily Herald.

The 17 students ended their strike at 5 p.m. on Feb. 9, along with the Harvard demonstrators and more than 200 other Brown students who fasted for 32 hours in solidarity.

Is it also a hunger strike if someone finishes dinner at 7 pm and does not eat breakfast until 7 am the next day?

I don’t even understand what the point of this “hunger strike” was as the impact they had on the conflict was non-existent.

“Harvard students committed to a day-long hunger strike to prove to university corporations that we will not back down,” Harvard’s Palestinian Solidarity Committee wrote on Instagram.

But what does that even mean? Back down from what? And for the record, they did back down and could not even last until dinner.

This does not even count as intermittent fasting. How pathetic of them to broadcast this to the world as if they have accomplished something.

“The 17 students ended their strike at 5 p.m. on Feb. 9, along with the Harvard demonstrators and more than 200 other Brown students who fasted for 32 hours in solidarity.”

At least the Brown students made it a full day.

Syd D. Sanders ’24 also said in an interview posted by the PSC that he chose to participate “because we will not rest until we divest.”

That statement did not age well since they rested after half a day. Total clowns. But this probally helps them sleep at night so they can accomplish their nightly eight-hour fast.

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