“Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon joined five US politicians this week on a hunger strike to demand President Biden call for a permanent ceasefire on the Gaza Strip.
“None of this is normal. None of this is routine and none of this can be allowed to continue,” Nixon, 57, said at a news conference outside the White House on Monday of the estimated 14,300 Palestinians in Gaza who have been killed since Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel in Oct. 7, according to TIME.
Nixon – who is currently reprising her iconic role as Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City” spinoff “And Just Like That…” – was previously among more than 260 artists who signed an open letter calling on Biden and Congress to demand a cease-fire, the outlet said that.
The flame-haired former New York State gubernatorial candidate will take part in a five-day hunger strike for two days before he returns to New York for work commitments, he said Monday.
Actress Cynthia Nixon joined a hunger strike calling for a ceasefire this week. Getty Images
“We’re here on hunger strike just to illustrate to Biden what kind of deprivation is going on in Gaza and how he has the power to make a ceasefire happen,” Nixon told reporters on Monday, according to the Times of Israel.
Nixon also stated that she is the mother of two Jewish children whose grandparents were victims of the Holocaust, SkyNews said.
“I have been asked by my son to use any voice that I need to emphasize as strongly as possible that never means never again for everyone,” he explained.
An estimated 14,300 people – including more than 6,000 children – have been killed in Gaza. ZUMAPRESS.com
“In seven weeks Israel has killed more civilians in a small patch of land than it has killed in the 20-year war in the entire country of Afghanistan.
“I am sick and tired of people explaining by saying that civilian casualties are routine in war. There is nothing routine about this figure. There is nothing routine about this death,” he lamented.
Nixon shares two sons with her ex-husband, Danny Mozes, who is Jewish.
As of 2018, Nixon and his wife, Christine Marinoni, attended Congregation Beit Simchat Torah – the largest LGBTQ+ synagogue in the world, The Forward wrote at the time.
“I want to make a personal appeal to a president who has, himself, experienced such a terrible personal loss, to connect with the empathy he is so famous for and to see the children of Gaza and imagine that they are his children. ,” said the actress on Monday.
Nixon joined five politicians who led the hunger strike. Getty Images
Later, in a separate interview with The Guardian, Nixon slammed Biden for moving “too slowly” to save Palestinian lives.
“Say there’s a terrorist cell in Maryland. Is the response to completely bomb the civilian population because they are hiding in a house somewhere?” he said, referring to Israel’s retaliatory bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which officials say is a legitimate effort to defeat Hamas terrorists.
“It doesn’t make sense. We keep getting this message that Palestinian lives are worthless. Immediately when you substitute a British life or an American life or any other nationality, you immediately see that it’s crazy, how can we?” Nixon continued.
Five politicians – Madinah Wilson-Anton of Delaware, Zohran Mamdani of New York, Mauree Turner of Oklahoma, Sam Rasoul of Virginia, and Abraham Aiyash of Michigan – also participated in the hunger strike, TIME reported.
Nixon insisted that he had two Jewish children. Getty Images
The core group was joined by activists and religious leaders from several communities, the outlet said.
Wilson-Anton said she hopes the strike will “bring attention to the fact that the US government, our President, and our congressional leaders are funding this policy of hunger. [in the Gaza Strip.]”
“We’re sending American taxpayers money to bomb communities in Gaza and I don’t think our president is using his influence as much as he can to bring about a permanent ceasefire,” he said, according to TIME.
“We saw the effect, which was no food, no water.”
Nixon and several other activists announced a hunger strike in front of the White House on Monday. Getty Images
The protest was organized and supported by the Campaign for Palestinian Rights, the Justice Is Project, Jewish Voices for Peace, If Not Now, Defenders of the Dream, Democratic Socialists of America, the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, The Guardian reported.
The hunger strike has been set in part to coincide with an earlier four-day ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel – which saw the terror group free at least 51 hostages it has held in Gaza since Oct. 7.
In exchange, Israel has returned 117 of the 150 Palestinian prisoners it said would be released as part of the deal, SkyNews explained.
On Monday, officials announced that the ceasefire would be extended for two additional days.
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