You’re going to die if you don’t eat.

Emmeline Pankhurst was forcibly fed by being strapped to a chair and having liquids forced into her nose, like other Suffragette hunger strikers. She described it as a form of torture or sexual violence.

This is the thing, it's quite possible to be pro Palestinian and even protest in a way that doesn't endanger our security and make people hate you when they might otherwise have been sympathetic. This shower are getting their tactics wrong.

I was confused by the horror that one had lost 13% in 39 days. If she went in at a slim 10 stone she’d be 8 and a half stone and still be in a healthy bmi - very unlikely to be in organ failure or need emergency medical treatment!

Not true.

They have been remanded in custody ahead of their trial. I am generally pro-Palestinian cause but this bunch of idiots fucked around and found out.

Oh no @sickofsixseven dont you see how @FoxesSox has come to show how everyone else is wrong?…🥱

We really must bring the laugh reaction back.

Are you this misinformed? Yes, they're lucky they have an intact spine, unlike the police officer who was attacked with a sledge hammer by one of these cretins. Lovely people you are supporting, such heroes 🙄

You clearly don't even know what "on remand" means. Its "until" trial, not "without" trial FYI and is perfectly standard procedure.

Ffs these people are not hunger striking.

They’re allegedly on day 47.

When the IRA carried out their hunger strike - fit, healthy grown men, not diabetics and slight women - the majority died within around 60 days. By day 40 they couldn’t walk, by day 50 they were lapsing in and out of coma.

Out of this bunch, 1 has been taken to hospital and discharged. By now you would expect her to be too frail to walk and going into ketosis. If she was indeed in that state there’s no way she would be sent back to prison. The rest haven’t been hospitalised at all.

If you believe this is a ‘hunger strike’ proper then you’re deluded.

They are not being held without trial. They are on remand. Like thousands of others. Yes they will have to wait a while for a trial, like thousands of others. If/When found guilty, time served on remand is knocked off their sentence. The proposals for trial without jury are just that - proposals. They are not special in that regard, they are in the same situation as others who have been arrested, charged and remanded. However much they try to paint themselves as all special and different and martyrs.

Brilliant so what you’re saying is the Violet Elizabeth school of “I’ll scwheam and scwheam until I’m sick and I can!” Protest works? Brilliant! I don’t want to pay council tax so I’ll hold my breath until you tell me I don’t!

Oh is that the son, Mosab Hassan Yousef.
He is a very wise man who puts himself in danger to explain to the West the meaning of the group Hamas who is father is a leader of.

Strange isnt though, why nobody is shouting about who is arming Hamas?

LOL

100s of thousands of people do 5:2 diet every week, they don’t commit terrorism or break police officers back with a sledge hammer before hand though.

The fact that young people in their 20s have been radicalised by lies and propaganda to the point that they are willing to die for this cause that has nothing to do with them is extremely stupid and worrying, not brave at all.

Sorry but you are very naive, UK political leaders don't give a shit about a few extreme people on hunger strike. Even if they did what exactly could they do to influence Israeli, put them on the naughty step, stop importing oranges?

Chinese students stood in front of tanks and were run down in 1989 every politician said it was horrible, but I bet the device your typing on was made in China, along with 75% of the things in your home

Why do you think politicians are ignoring the issue, rather than simply disagreeing with them and refusing to let them have their way? Not giving in is a strategy in itself.

Everyone on this thread is talking about what whiney little entitled moronic brats they are, not what their cause de jour is they are using to get attention.

And Iran who funds and recruits for Hamas !

Nobody on this thread is doing anything that would help the strikers achieve their stated aims, since they want actual change not attention. And several of us are expressing our opposition to their proposals in a way that we might not bother with if they weren't striking.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Families calling for the government to step in. Right, so Keir or Yvette pops into prison and coaxes these numpties to take a spoonful, as you would do with a toddler?

So some people are willing to give their life for a big issue that is mostly ignored by politicians, and people on Mumsnet are mocking them. That is not kind nor a fair judgement to make. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it isn’t difficult to imagine how brave it is to do something like that.

YABU for not putting context in your title.

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