“The people that I know in Gaza, they’re starving,” Angela, a bartender and Ph.D. candidate at the City University of New York, tells me. It’s a Tuesday afternoon at the end of May, and in an hour, she and seven other students will gather on the steps of the university’s graduate center in midtown to kick off an indefinite hunger strike . They are joining hundreds of people across the country — including students at Stanford and the University of Oregon , plus affiliates of Veterans for Peace — in abstaining from food to protest Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Angela is thinking about her friend Oday , whom she met on Instagram last October and had spoken with earlier in the day. In the last year, both Oday’s home in southern Gaza and his school were bombed. He and his famil
CUNY Students Join Hunger Strike as Gaza Waits for Food

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