Cynthia Nixon, the Sex and the city Star and former New York gubernatorial candidate announced that she and other activists went on hunger strike to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza, which followed brutal Hamas terror attacks and kidnappings of Jewish residents.
Nixon protested the deaths of civilians in Gaza during Israel’s counter-bombing on Hamas-occupied territories.
“As a mother of Jewish children whose grandparents are Holocaust survivors, I have been asked by my son to affirm as loudly as I can with every voice I have that ‘never again’ means ‘never again’ to everyone ,” said. Nixon during a speech. protested outside the White House on Monday.
“In seven weeks, Israel has killed more civilians in a small strip of land than have been killed in all of Afghanistan in 20 years of war,” she said, citing reports from Gaza officials about the death toll.
“I’m tired of people explaining it away by saying that civilian casualties are the order of the day in war. These numbers have nothing to do with routine. There is no routine to these deaths,” she said.
The hunger strike will continue throughout the week, but Nixon told the Guardian that she would break her fast due to work commitments.
Nixon urged President Joe Biden, “who has suffered such a devastating personal loss,” to “join the empathy he knows so well and look at the children of Gaza and think of them as his children’s goods .”
Nixon’s call for a truce reflects divisions on the left – and to some extent within the entertainment industry – over calls for a truce after the October 7 attacks.
Source: Deadline
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