A few Princeton faculty members joined with hunger striking students for a 24-hour solidarity fast to demand that university sever any cultural or economic ties with Israel and refrain from penalizing the students who have been protesting. As they spoke about their short term commitment to support the students’ “indefinite” hunger strike, they said that the students were merely doing what they had been taught to do.
One associate professor said “the students have simply done what they were told to do,” while a professor in the English department said “Our students are putting their bodies on the line to try to affect change, and teaching them how to affect change is what we do as educators.”
The faculty spoke with pride about their students, who have been hunger striking since May 3. “They are eating nothing and drinking water very sparingly,” a professor said, noting the health consequences of these…
