Cynthia Nixon of Sex and the City fame has begun a hunger strike to protest the continuation of the war between Israel and Hamas.
Nixon, 57, stood outside the White House alongside a group of activists and progressive politicians on Monday calling for US President Joe Biden to push for a permanent ceasefire amid what has been labelled a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Gaza.
“As the mother of Jewish children whose grandparents are Holocaust survivors, I have been asked by my son to use any voice I have to affirm as loudly as possible that ‘never again’ means ‘never again for anyone’,” Nixon said in her speech in front of the White House, holding a sign that read “Biden, you are starving Gaza. Permanent ceasefire now”.
“I would like to make a personal plea to a president who has himself experienced such devastating personal loss to connect with that empathy for which he is so well known, and to look at the children of Gaza and imagine that they were his children.”
