Cynthia Nixon Demands a Permanent Cease-fire

Early on Monday morning, an interfaith coalition of activists stood in front of the White House to announce a five-day hunger strike for a cease-fire in Gaza. Speakers included a handful of progressive New York State legislators and, conspicuously, Cynthia Nixon, an active Democratic Socialists of America member, a former New York gubernatorial candidate, and a Sex and the City star.

Addressing the crowd, Nixon declared, “Israel has killed more civilians on a tiny strip of land than were killed in 20 years of war in the entire country of Afghanistan.” She also specified that 1,200 Israelis were killed in the Hamas attacks and insisted that “none of this is normal.” Later that evening, she led other DSA members and interfaith activists in reading a list of names and ages of Gazan children killed by Israeli forces. Reading the list was an effort to show that “these aren’t just numbers, each person is a person,” Nixon later told the Cut.

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