State lawmakers, activists and actor Cynthia Nixon start hunger strike for ceasefire

More than a dozen state lawmakers and activists, including Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon, started a hunger strike on Monday, calling for a permanent ceasefire.

The five-day hunger strike is taking place outside the White House and includes state representatives from several states: Zohran Mamdani (New York); Madinah Wilson-Anton (Delaware); Sam Rasoul (Virginia); Abraham Aiyash (Michigan); Mauree Turner (Oklahoma).

Activists endorsing and participating in the strike include US Campaign for Palestinian Rights; Adalah Justice Project; Jewish Voice for Peace; IfNotNow movement; Dream Defenders; Democratic Socialists of America; Institute for Middle East Understanding; and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

“As the mother of Jewish children whose grandparents are Holocaust survivors, I have been asked by my son to use my platform to project as loudly as possible that ‘never again’ means never again for everyone. As an American, I am here to demand that our President stop funding the mass killing and starvation of thousands of innocent Palestinians, the majority of whom are children and women,” Cynthia Nixon said in a press release.