Cynthia Nixon says her son is on a ‘hunger strike' to support Gaza
'Sex and the City' star Cynthia Nixon said her son, an 'observant Jew,' is currently doing a hunger strike with friends in Chicago to support Gaza and bring attention to the humanitarian crisis there.
Nixon, 59, said her son, Seph Mozes, is doing the strike as part of his advocacy with Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), the self-proclaimed Jewish anti-Zionist group that stands in solidarity with Palestinians.
'He and five other of his compatriots are doing a hunger strike in Chicago [since] Monday, for Gaza,' Nixon told Newsweek, adding that their motto was, 'Stop starving Gaza, stop arming Israel.'
4 Cynthia Nixon said her son, Seph Mozes, joined a hunger strike for Gaza at his alma matter, the University of Chicago.
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4 The hunger strike is to call for an end to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as Hamas and Israel continue to fight in the ruined enclave.
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'[He] doesn't have illusions that he's going to end the war, but I think he wants to do everything he can,' she added.
Nixon — who is best known for playing Miranda Hobbes on 'Sex and the City' and its spinoff — said Mozes, 28, was partially inspired to support Gaza because his paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors.
Eman Abdelhadi, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago where Mozes graduated from, said the hunger strike began Monday and would continue to go on until the situation in Gaza changes.
'Six leaders of JVP Chicago are launching an indefinite hunger strike today. Two of them are academics. No business as usual during genocide,' Abdelhadi wrote on X.
4 Nixon had briefly joined a hunger strike herself to call for an end to the war in Gaza back in November 2023.
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4 Death and violence have become the norm at the troubled food distribution sites backed by the Israeli military.
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Mozes' hunger strike comes less than two years after Nixon went on her own part-time hunger strike in November 2023 to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.
While the 2023 strike lasted five days, Nixon only joined participants for two of the days.
The shadow of famine continues to loom over the Gaza Strip as the fighting between Israel and Hamas leaves the vast majority of the nearly 2 million refugees there with little to no food.
While Israel lifted its aid blockade in March, the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation group has had little success distributing enough food to keep the population fed.
The few food distribution sites in Gaza have also been marred by death and violence, with the Israel Defense Forces accused of killing 51 people after tank fire hit a group huddled around a World Food Programme site on Tuesday, killing 51 people.
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