Cynthia Nixon has joined several state lawmakers and activists in a hunger strike calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
“None of this is normal. None of this is routine and none of this can be allowed to continue,” Nixon said at a press conference outside the White House Monday.
Israeli attacks have killed more than 14,000 Palestinians living in Gaza since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
Previously, the Sex and the City star, along with more than 250 artists, signed an open letter to President Biden and Congress calling for a ceasefire.
Nixon, 57, has taken her activism a step further by participating in a five-day hunger strike for two days.
“We are here hunger-striking just to sort of mirror to Biden the kind of deprivation that is happening in Gaza and how he has it within his power to make a ceasefire happen,” she told reporters.
The actress, who is reprising her role as Miranda Hobbes on the Sex and the City spinoff And Just Like That…, called upon President Biden to call for a ceasefire and stop funding Israel.
“Our president’s seeming disregard for the incredible human toll Israel’s far-right government is exacting on innocent civilians does not remotely reflect the desire of the overwhelming majority of Americans,” she said, according to Al-Jazeera.
Nixon, who is a mother of two Jewish boys, added one of her sons asked that she use her voice to “affirm as loudly as possible that never again means never again for everyone.”
“And 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.”
“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,” she said.
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