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Sex and the City icon shares that her son has gone on hunger strike
Seph Mozes, the 28-year-old son of Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, is taking part in a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestine to call for an end to the US arming of Israel
Seph Mozes, son of Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, is on a hunger strike in solidarity with Palestine. Mozes, who is Jewish, is taking part in the strike as part of his advocacy with Jewish Voices For Peace (JVP), which is calling for an end to America's arming of Israel.
Nixon, who is a prominent activist, describes her 28-year-old son as "a quite observant Jew" who is "very steeped in Jewish Voices for Peace," before sharing that he "doesn't have illusions that he's going to end the war, but I think he wants to do everything he can".
JVP describes itself as the "world's largest Jewish organisation standing in solidarity with Palestine" and currently has over 765,403 members.
Writing on its website, the grassroots organisation states: "We envision a world where all people - from the U.S. to Palestine - live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity. Like generations of Jewish leftists before us, we fight for the liberation of all people."
During a discussion on Wednesday at Newsweek's Manhattan office, Nixon, who is not Jewish herself, shared that her son was partially inspired to support Palestine because his paternal grandparents are Holocaust survivors.
The actress and activist, best known for playing Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City and its reboot And Just Like That, revealed: "He and five other of his compatriots are doing a hunger strike in Chicago [since] Monday, for Gaza. 'Stop starving Gaza, stop arming Israel'."
Nixon, 59, described her son as "a smart person with his ear to the ground" and added: "His grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and he just feels like he can't stand by and not do everything he can."
The actress went on a hunger strike herself in November 2023 as she called on Joe Biden, the US President at the time, to support a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine.
Addressing a crowd outside the White House, Nixon said at the time: "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 everyone.'"
"In seven weeks, Israel has killed more civilians on a tiny strip of land than was killed in 20 years of war in the entire country of Afghanistan.
"I am sick and tired of people explaining away by saying that civilian casualties are a routine toll of war. There is nothing routine about these figures. There is nothing routine about these deaths."
Nixon made a heartfelt plea to Biden, suggesting that his own personal tragedies should make him more empathetic towards the Palestinian death toll.
"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," she implored.
