Students in United States organise die in event, embark on hunger strike in solidarity with Palestine

Admin I Saturday, May 05, 2024

 

NEW JERSEY – More students have continued their protests and sit-ins in the United States of America against continued genocide in Gaza.

The latest to join the growing wave of students’ solidarity with Palestinians, who are subjected to vicious attacks by Israel were students from Harvard and Princeton university among others, who have embarked on hunger strike in addition to a die in event.

The students at Princeton University in New Jersey on their own announced a hunger strike until the university reveals and withdraws its investments in the Jewish occupation, in addition to a complete academic and cultural boycott of the Jewish genocidal entity.

Those at Harvard University decided to join the protest through a ‘die-in’ event by reciting the poem ‘If I Must Die’.

“If I Die” is a poem originally composed by the late Palestinian poet and academic Refaat Alareer.

The Poem “IF I DIE”

“If I must die
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale”.