Seph Mozes, the 28-year-old son of Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon, is leading a hunger strike in support of Palestine to demand that the US stop arming 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.
Before revealing that her 28-year-old son “does not have illusions that he’s going to end the war, but I think he wants to do everything he can,” Nixon, a prominent activist, described her son as “a quite observant Jew” who is “very steeped in Jewish Voices for Peace.”
JVP describes itself as the “world’s largest Jewish organisation standing in solidarity with Palestine” and currently has over 765,403 members.
The grassroots organization states on its website that it “we envision a world where all people, from the U.S. to Palestine, coexist peacefully and justly.” We fight for the liberation of all people, just like previous generations of Jewish leftists.
Nixon, who is not Jewish herself, shared that her son’s support for Palestine was partially fueled by his paternal grandparents being Holocaust survivors during a discussion on Wednesday at Newsweek’s Manhattan office.
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’.”
His grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and his son feels like he can’t stand by and not do everything he can, according to Nixon, 59.
In November of that year, the actress called on Joe Biden, the then-US President, to support a ceasefire between Israel and Palestine, and she took a hunger strike herself.
Nixon once said to a crowd outside the White House, “As the mother of Jewish children whose grandparents are Holocaust survivors, I have been asked by my son to use any voice I can to loudly affirm that “never again” means “never again for everyone.”
In just seven weeks, Israel has killed more civilians in one small area of Afghanistan than it has in the previous 20 years of hostilities.
People constantly repeating that civilian casualties are a regular part of war, “I get sick of it.” These figures don’t have any routine features. These deaths don’t have anything routine about them.
Nixon appealed deeply to Biden, saying that his own tragic experiences should increase his empathy for the Palestinian death toll.
She implored the president to connect with his empathy for the victims of his own terrible personal loss and to look at the children of Gaza and think they were his children.
