California State students protest aid blockade in Gaza with hunger strike

[Omaha Steve]

Source: The Guardian

Two dozen fasting students also press university system to divest from weapon manufacturers in list of demands

By Cy Neff
Mon 12 May 2025 06.00 EDT

About two dozen California State University students began a hunger strike last week to protest against starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s aid blockade, marking the latest act of political protest on college campuses.

The strikers – students from San Jose State, Sacramento State, San Francisco State and CSU Long Beach – began their fast on 5 May

“We, the students of San Francisco, Sacramento, Long Beach, and San Jose State Universities, are beginning a united hunger strike in solidarity with the two million Palestinians at risk of starvation in Gaza,” Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in a press release. They are also pushing the university system to divest from weapons manufacturers, among other stated goals.

The hunger strikes come as Israel’s aid blockade in Gaza passes its second month, and is facing mounting international criticism for the millions of Palestinians pushed toward famine, as well as Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich’s, recent assertion that “Gaza will be entirely destroyed.”



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Original link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/california-state-university-hunger-strike-gaza-israel-aid-blockade

[WiseElder]

1. If Hamas released their hostages

and laid down their guns this could all be over. Wonder why these "students" are not demanding that.

[slightlv]

2. I don't believe it would. There'd just be more "tit for tat"

as there has been for decades. And you can't make one country safer by destroying another... and that's true whichever side we're talking about. genociding one people won't make the other safer. But the people there and elsewhere who see that are in the minority. The whole thing, from the massacre to now, is absolutely heartbreaking. But more death and destruction, especially with all the "plans" being developed between Netanyahu, trump, putin, and other regional actors will only make the situation worse. Develop the land by mining for whatever is under it? Move more of one people onto the land that others have lived on for generations? And even if you could create a country for the Palestinians like the world did for Israel, it's only a natural human reticence to not move away from your generational home. I see this whole thing as a conundrum with no answers, and a lot of players with agendas on all sides. And I just end up feeling horrible for the people caught up in it from all sides.