CHICAGO (RNS) — Across the country, various chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group, have been partaking in 12- and 24-hour fasts to bring attention to starving Gazans. In Chicago specifically, several JVP members have been attempting an indefinite fast in which they only consume water and electrolytes.
The hunger strikers have participated in various JVP Chicago events throughout their fast, including rallies, teach-ins and a vigil honoring the children of Gaza. On Thursday (June 26), their 11th day of fasting, they presented a teach-in at the Federal Plaza in downtown Chicago with other hunger strikers concerned with causes surrounding Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts and General Iron Industries Inc., a scrap metal company.
JVP Chicago members Ash Bohrer, Audrey Gladson, Becca Lubow, Seph Mozes, Avey Rips and Benjamin Teller started their fast on June 16. On the eighth day, Mozes, who is son of “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon, stopped his fast for medical reasons…