{"id":2218608,"date":"2024-04-11T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-students-threaten-hunger-strike-if-anti-israel-demands-are-not-met\/"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:53:02","slug":"yale-students-threaten-hunger-strike-if-anti-israel-demands-are-not-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-students-threaten-hunger-strike-if-anti-israel-demands-are-not-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale students consider hunger strike over unmet anti-Israel demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyale-students-threaten-hunger-strike-if-anti-israel-demands-are-not-met%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2218608&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Yale students\u2063 threaten hunger strike if demands for divestment from weapons manufacturers linked to Israel-Palestine conflict are not met by a \u2062specified date. They express frustration with the university&#8217;s \u200calleged\u2062 complicity in genocide and call for a response to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-nantz-disinformation-is-democracy\/\" title=\"John Nantz: Disinformation Is Democracy\">free speech demands<\/a>.Participants in the planned \u200dstrike seek donations for\u200c support via a now-deleted Instagram post. Yale students are ready to hunger strike if their calls to divest from Israel-Palestine conflict-linked weapons manufacturers are not addressed in time. They criticize\u2064 the university&#8217;s perceived role in genocide and demand recognition of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/states-push-to-rein-in-big-tech-as-federal-gears-grind-slow\/\" title=\"States Push to Rein in Big Tech as Federal Gears Grind Slow\">free speech rights<\/a>. The participants are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitulating-to-mexicos-demands-doesnt-fix-the-border-crisis\/\" title=\"Giving in to Mexico's demands won't solve the border crisis\">requesting financial aid<\/a> through \u200ca removed \u2062Instagram post to sustain the strike.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Anti-Israel students at Yale University are threatening to go on a hunger strike if the school does not commit to divest from weapons manufacturers \u201ccontributing to Israel\u2019s assault on Palestine\u201d by Friday morning, they warned in a letter to the university\u2019s president. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIf these demands are not met by the morning of 4\/12\/2024, we will go on a hunger strike,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5lvRDiOtF9\/?img_index=1\">students wrote<\/a> to President Peter Salovey. \u201cWe will risk our bodily health and wellbeing in ways that mirror only a fraction of the absolute devastation that Palestinians are suffering right now, until you do. Yale\u2019s complicity in genocide must end.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the wake of Israel\u2019s war against Hamas for brutally massacring more than 1,000 people on October 7, the letter calls the United States the \u201cempire that is funding the military conquest and colonization of Palestine\u201d and accused the university\u2019s investments of profiting \u201cfrom this mass ethnic cleansing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cOur existence in this University and this country are ones defined by necropolitics,\u201d the students continued. \u201cOur lives here exist as they do because of the investment in the deaths of Palestinians by Yale and the US government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The students claimed they \u201cexhausted every mode possible\u201d of making their voices heard without the university making the changes they requested. The students cite various conferences, talks, meetings, and protests that they say failed to elicit a response from the administrators. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cYou flaunt free speech as a protected right on this campus but treat our free speech as if it holds no real weight,\u201d the letter reads. \u201cOur free speech demands a response from you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a now-deleted post on the Instagram account created for the strike, the students solicited donations for \u201clife-giving aid\u201d and medical support to help strike participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_722303\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-722303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yale students planning a hunger strike solicited donations in a now-deleted post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The letter also accuses Yale of going against its commitment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-members-of-congress-use-inside-information-to-make-millions-on-the-stock-market\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s How Members Of Congress Use Inside Information To Make Millions On The Stock Market\">make investment decisions<\/a> that \u201cincorporate the full costs of climate change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe first 60 days of Israeli bombardment has released more GHG emissions than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-british-satirists-scathing-indictment-of-woke-culture-global-warming-hysteria-viewed-5m-times\/\" title=\"WATCH: British Satirist\u2019s Scathing Indictment Of Woke Culture, Global Warming Hysteria Viewed 5M Times\">annual carbon emissions<\/a> of twenty individual countries and the carbon cost of rebuilding Palestine will exceed the annual emissions of over 130 individual countries combined,\u201d the letter reads. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Citing Yale adopting a policy in 2018 of not investing in assault weapons, the students called on Yale to divest from all weapons manufacturing and military suppliers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cJust like domestic shootings, the Israeli military causes \u2018the Israeli military causes \u2018incontrovertible societal harm\u2019 and \u2018grave social injury\u2019 as they decimate the educational infrastructure of Palestine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The students go on to demand that the president discuss plans for divesting in an upcoming Yale Corporation board meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter was signed by a group of 12 graduate and undergraduate students, according to Yale Daily News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Instagram post was in collaboration with Yale Law Students for Justice in Palestine, Yalies for Palestine, and Yale Graduate Students for Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The university is reviewing its investment policies, according to Yale Daily News which cited a February 2024 statement from the university confirming there is a review to extend the 2018 assault weapons policy to \u201ccover manufacturers who effectively retail to the general public.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yale University did not respond to a request for comment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yale anti-Israel students plan hunger strike if school doesn&#8217;t divest from weapons makers linked to Israel-Palestine conflict by Friday. 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