You’re going to die if you don’t eat.

[SheThinksShesAllThat]

Those prisoners starving themselves, what the hell is going on in this crazy world!!!!

Pro Palestine activists are on a hunger strike, I really hope you get the result you want, the people of Gaza remember you seven kids who died for…… oh for them! 😂

I watched an interesting interview months ago now a young guy who was born in Israel then his father ended up being one of the head chiefs ( killers) in Hamas he know lives back in Israel after escaping…. His wise words were…. ‘ you lot in the west have no idea what is going on, with your protests and flags, stop trying to get involved in something we can and won’t be able to change’
This comes from a person on both sides who stayed very humble but very blunt.

Stop your silly little hunger strike, go and enjoy time with your family and friends you are lucky enough to be able to do that.

The Palestine Action protestors are not terrorists and their organisation should never have been classified as a terrorist organisation. Hunger strikes have often been used by political prisoners, such as the suffragettes.

Your use of the laughing emoji is crass and misplaced, whatever you think of these prisoners.

There is no genocide. Israel has the capability to carry out a genocide, but they haven’t.
About half the 70,000 dead are terrorist, do perhaps 35,000 dead civilians.
It was a terrible war, started, and lost, by Hamas.

Are the pro-pal lies campaigning for Hamas to disband so peace can continue?
Or just that Israel should not defend itself?
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No. You are displaying a failure of logic

They participated in terrorist activity, so I'm not sure what else they really could be classified as.

Just because you agree with their actions doesn't make them not terrorist actions. It just means that you should probably take a good, long, hard look at yourself and realise what you have become.

I don’t agree with these people, their tactics, or their demands. At the same time I don’t want them to starve to death. They are very young, some of them just 20. At that age it is quite common to get involved in crazy stuff for a cause you passionately believe in, and in ten years or so their views might be very different - if they live.

They should be taken to hospital, restored to health, then we deal with the charges.
My simple point is that it is quite possible to disagree with someone yet not want them to starve to death, even if they are inflicting the starvation on themselves.

How can they be restored to health if they won’t eat? The treatment they require is food.

The one who was urgently hospitalised yesterday has resumed her hunger strike, a fact celebrated by the despicable Zarah Sultana who should be convincing her to eat instead.

People may potentially be a little kinder towards these people if they did a bit of protesting about some of the other many atrocities going on, right now, around the world. But hell no, theres no Jews to blame

Everyone back on the bus!!

Encouraging people to self harm like this is a particularly despicable act. If she thinks hunger strikes are the way forward, why isn't Zarah Sultana joining in from the outside instead? It's so incredibly gross of her to encourage others to continue to self harm.

Prominent self hating Jews, Finkelstein, Pappe and Schlaim. The vast majority of Jews do not agree with them.

Just to be clear, are you advocating for force feeding given that they don't want to eat?

I don’t need to create any fictional characters, because there are plenty of PP saying that the hunger strikers should just eat. See the thread title - it is not that simple. Anorexia is a serious illness with a high mortality rate, but many non-medical people see it as choosing not to eat. Research into IRA hunger strikers has shown that women hunger strikers were left with lifelong eating disorders.

The hunger strikers have chosen not to eat. Conflating them with people with anorexia is pretty offensive.

They can’t be force fed under human rights law, the precedent in the UK being the Suffragettes. I don’t necessarily think it is ideological at this point - they can’t be thinking logically and will have developed eating disorders. I am very worried for them, they’re so young. I notice that the organisers aren’t on hunger strike.

Biologically, it is very likely that these young people are developing eating disorders. That’s my understanding from the research into eating disorders, which goes back centuries but has been studied in psychology since people were subjected to starvation in World War Two. I think it’s exploitative of the organisers to use young women as hunger strikers. I am extremely concerned for them.

I chose not to eat as a teenager, for non-political reasons, and it is very easy to become anorexic.

Dropping in with a quick reminder that the UN International Independent Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem and Israel is made up of just three members- independent human rights lawyers appointed by the HRC, all of whom have a long history of extreme anti-Israel bias and antisemitism. They released their findings that in their opinion it's a genocide. The Commission does not speak on behalf of the UN.

Pappe, Finkelstein and Schlaim are not actually prominent Jewish scholars but experts in manipulation and self-promotion with opinions who've been amplified to prominence because they represent a particular narrative. Presenting them as voices with more authority or moral value because they're Jewish has strong overtones of tokenising and strays uncomfortably close to Good Jew/Bad Jew territory.

Irish protestors were force fed - the Price sisters in Belfast, for example

I don't think that damaging two Royal Air Force (RAF) Voyager aircraft is terrorist activity. It was vandalism and nobody were hurt. Other people have been arrested for just holding up a sign saying that they support Palestine Action.

I don't need to take a good look at myself. I'm perfectly happy with my position.

I think that calling Jewish people that you disagree with self-hating Jews is anti-semitic.

Well yes I guess I am. If they’re near death they won’t have the capacity to make rational decisions, so couldn’t they be sectioned? I’m not sure of the law on this tbh. But I imagine ‘force feeding’ is a lot less brutal now than it was in the time of the suffragettes.

The same Avi Schlaim who stands with Hamas?

But beating up a policewoman and breaking her back is ok is it? I'm guessing her life is in pieces now thanks to mere vandalism!

My pro Palestinian MP voted in favour of prescribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group, intimating in her letter to me that there was more going on that hasn't been made public. Consequently these vandals support terrorism by their actions.

I've attached a screenshot to show that it is terrorist activity. So you are supportive of terrorism.

You being happy to support terrorism doesn't mean it's right. It means you are literally supporting terrorism. You are a terrorism supporter. I don't know how else to phrase it for you to understand the seriousness of what you're admitting to.

If you consider these people as anorexic then it is even more disgusting to be supporting them in their action.

How far does your sympathy stretch? Hamas were forced to give up the remaining child hostages.

The ones they took on the Oct 7 massacre.

The ones they hadn't 'used up' in the meantime.

So would you be willing to offer one of yours to show your support for the good guys?

I note that two of the hunger strikers have decided to eat after all. The adult hostages Hamas took didn't have that option, but were starved just for the fun of it.