‘The People That I Know In Gaza, They’re Starving’

Photo: Luigi W. Morris

“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 ...