Cynthia Nixon previously had started her own five-day hunger strike, but quit after just two
“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon’s daughter is joining an “indefinite” hunger strike for Gaza in Chicago, which reportedly includes a pair of University of Chicago academics.
Seph Mozes, formerly known as Samantha until her transition to male several years ago, is an “observant Jew” according to Nixon, and part of the Chicago Jewish Voice for Peace’s strike which began Monday, the New York Post reports.
Nixon noted Mozes, who graduated from U. Chicago (pictured, below), was “partially inspired” to join the protest because she’s the grand-daughter of Holocaust survivors.
“[S]he and five other of h[er] compatriots are doing a hunger strike in Chicago [since] Monday, for Gaza,” Nixon said. The star noted the strikers’ motto is “Stop starving Gaza, stop arming Israel.”
“[Seph] doesn’t have illusions that [s]he’s going to end the war, but I think [s]he wants to do everything [s]he can,” Nixon added.
U. Chicago professor Eman Abdelhadi, director of graduate studies in the Department of Comparative Human Development, posted on X Monday that two of the hunger strikers are fellow UChicago academics.
“No business as usual during genocide,” Abdelhadi wrote.
Six leaders of JVP Chicago are launching an indefinite hunger strike today. Two of them are academics. No business as usual during genocide. pic.twitter.com/4cY8gQllOS
— Eman Abdelhadi (@emanabdelhadi) June 16, 2025
Abdelhadi was a signatory to an open letter mere days after Hamas’ slaughter of over 1,000 Israelis on October 7, 2023 which declared “unwavering solidarity with [the] Palestinian resistance.”
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Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago posted a pinned tweet about the strike, which notes this past Tuesday’s event — a People’s University for Palestine Teach-In — featured Bill Ayers, the former radical University of Illinois at Chicago professor and Weather Underground domestic terrorist.
Thursday featured “solidarity hours” (3-6pm) with Mozes and the other strikers.
‼️6 JVP Chicago members will begin an INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE on Monday, June 16 to demand that our Senators @SenatorDurbin & @SenDuckworth do everything in their power to stop arming Israel and send food and medical aid into Gaza‼️ #LetGazaLive #StopArmingIsrael pic.twitter.com/y6UtpSQOO5
— JVP Chicago (@JVPChicago) June 13, 2025
Nixon went on her own pro-Gaza hunger strike just over a month after Hamas’ 2023 attack against Israel. It was supposed to last for five days, but Nixon bowed out after just two.
Nixon noted around that time she had been asked by Seph to “use any voice I have to affirm as loudly as possible that ‘Never again’ means never again for everyone.”
Earlier this year in protest of President Trump’s executive orders against transgender surgical procedures for minors, Nixon declared that not only is her daughter trans, but so are her niece, her best friend’s kid, her daughter’s best friend … and that her life “is filled with transgender people.”
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IMAGE CAPTION & CREDIT: JVP hunger strikers in Chicago displaying banners; Eman Abdelhadi/X. INTERIOR IMAGE: Cynthia Nixon/Instagram