{"id":66600,"date":"2025-06-18T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=66600"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:23:22","slug":"why-we-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/why-we-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"Since May 22, 2025, people around the world have been fasting in solidarity with the starving people of Gaza. It is a nonviolent way to raise one\u2019s voice when no one is willing to listen.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s well after Easter, and I\u2019m hungry. For several days now, my diet has consisted of only 250 kilocalories. According to recent research by Oxfam, this is roughly the amount available to the 300,000 Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip. That\u2019s two slices of crispbread, one banana, and one egg per day, or one can of beans. Since Israel blockaded the Gaza Strip and thereby the import of international aid, the northern part of this tiny, densely populated land has been suffering from severe famine.\n\n\n\nThe fasting campaign was launched by Veterans For Peace (VFP), a non-profit organ<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since May 22, 2025, people around the world have been fasting in solidarity with the starving people of Gaza. It is a nonviolent way to raise one\u2019s voice when no one is willing to listen. It\u2019s well after Easter, and I\u2019m hungry. For several days now, my diet has consisted of only 250 kilocalories. According to recent research by Oxfam, this is roughly the amount available to the 300,000 Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip. That\u2019s two slices of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20867,"featured_media":66257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8838,8823],"tags":[11662,11670,8824],"class_list":["post-66600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-issues","category-reflection","tag-ausgabe-23-2025-en","tag-english-issue-25-26-2025","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20867"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}