Its a Shame Egypt is our friend and this lady is helping and drawing to attention to Gaza Hamas controlled land, Liberal Old Jewish Lady never learns. Enjoy your fast! Its good for nothing

This "85 year old grandmother" is the Canadian equivalent of Shulamit Aloni, only worse. She's been suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome" for sixty-four years. She denounces Israel whenever possible, and has quite a devoted cadre in both the United States and Canada which troop along after her because they hates Jews and Israel, and Hedy Epstein is such a fool, she doesn't recognize it. She is not normal.

She was in England since 1939 and in the US since 1948. This is just another tabloid rubbish from Ynet to claim some "Shoa survivor" participation in this pro-terrorist rally. Epstein is the same loon that shows up at every anti-Semitic event. That's no survivor participation. Some real journalism would be nice for a change.

Of all people,does anyone think that the Egyptians will be influenced by anybody starving to death ?The Policy of dictatorial Governments ,especially the one in question ,will not make it waver because of one act of bravado by any starvationist.The EU and President Ban will not say even a "Tut Tut" Hashem wants us to preserve life.This holocaust victim should have analysed the position better.Having travelled so far in life,with extreme adversity,surely this is not the way to end life for a cause that is hardly likely to succeed by this means !

i'm gonna assume she is senile and is avoiding food from a nursing home.

While this group protests Israel and makes certain claims that Israel committed war crimes, even though Goldstone himself stated he found no legal proof of such claims.... will they find the time or energy to engage in a hunger strike against Hamas' continued human rights abuses of the population, like withholding humanitarian aid and killing of opposition figures? The Audacity of Self-righteous Myopic Racists.

Guess they couldn't find enough suckers to crew the ship into a closed military zone. Perhaps Iran could help by providing another "Karine A"....just for tourists with bags of rice, though.

I can't understand how a jewish woman whom survived the nazi death camps can go on a hunger strike in cairo for gazan arabs of the former British mandate of palestine who only wish to see the destruction of Israel, why didn't she go on hunger strike for the people of 'SDEROT' when rockets were raining down on that town and all the children were kept in shelters for day in and day out. What about the suffering of her own people, why is she taken in with all this Hamas and world press propaganda. To hell with all enemies of the jewish people Please shut down the traitor's who run the TIKUN-OLAM anti Israel organization. These vermin won't believe that there is anti-semitism in Sweden that the 500,000 muslims that live there are threating daily jewish lives.

Won' t their faces be red when they find out they are protesting and marching for the 900+ terrorists killed while hiding behind Gazan human shields. Eh - probably not a concern to them. They might also miss taking note of the well-fed Gazans they will pass by as they are shuttled to the historical slum neighborhoods in NE Gaza. Put your blinders on ladies and gentlemen. Don't let those facts out there play with your opinions in here.

and has blamed them ever since for whatever pain she felt. It's a classic Stockholm Syndrome case where you side with your captors and accept their hateful positions, even against your own family. According to reports, her only suffering during the war was being without food items and other necessities. It seems after so many years, she's still suffering from mental retardation, the poor dear.

Please change the title of this article. It's insult to real Holocaust survivors. Hedy is disgusting.

I am always surprised when I read about this kind of garbage. Seven children are sitting shiva for their father who was gunned down in cold blood, The PA pays terrorists who attack Jews, and this senile windbag is willing to starve for Hamas? Some one should tell her that surviving England is a far cry from the shoah. Little does she know that if she did not serve a "news" purpose Hamas would just as soon shoot her--and probably would. What a disgrace

I wonder if Heddy ever staged any hunger strikes for the dozens of real elderly Holocaust survivors, who were brutally murdered and maimed by Hamas while celebrating Passover several years ago.

Perhaps Epstein turned off her hearing aid when the Egyptians and Palestinians deny the Holocaust?

being exterminated by the Muslim majority in Egypt ....Thats the real apartheid

Let's them starve!!!

...Hedy Epstein is a fine woman, a fine example of a humanitarian, a fine human being. The Jew upon Jew hatred already exhibited in this talkback is indicative of a real moral rot and decay taking place inside Israel and with its deranged "supporters" outside Israel who really want the little state to fail. Most of these anonymous jerks would not dare spout this stuff in public, or polite company, although sadly at least one screaming harridan very well might. Nevertheless, the comments already in this thread prove there is something very very wrong about Israel. Something is badly broken with their humanity, and the humanity of their "supporters". A thousand of these anonymous blowhards could not fill Hedy's shoes.

If these Baal-Crowds would do the same for people of Darfur, Iran, Tibet, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Congo then we will start believing them, otherwise they are the same old anti-semites gangs.

This woman has definitely suffered because of the Holocaust and lost family during this horrible event, but she has never stated that she was ever held in a concentration camp, death camp, or ghetto during the war. All she has claimed is that she fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for England. Losing family in the Holocaust is one thing, but to call yourself a survivor is dishonest and insulting to true survivors of this nightmare. My family lost many in the Holocaust, but those that lived but never set foot in a camp never called themselves or claimed to be survivors. This is very disturbing that she has been and continues to promote this belief on the world, and people accept it. Very sorry for her loss, but not for her lies.

But an honest human being...she's not. Of all the TBs here - which you claim is vicious hated (how typical for the Leftist met with opposing view points) - all of them have the same theme - and that's the dishonesty in the hearts of people like Hedy. If there were balance in those who join protests like these - people who look at the big picture and find blame with both Hamas and Israel, who demand an end of Hamas oppression and calls to genocide while demanding Israel to make peace with Arabs....then you'd find support her. What these posters are showing is their disgust with one-sided, self-righteous *ssholes who not only claim they know the big picture (because they own a satellite dish, like you), but also refuse to lay blame on the other party which is involved and doing heinous things. That's called descrimination! And if calling you out as the racist mongrel you are is considered "hatred", well then so be it! Usually evil hates when light is shown on it - and even in US elections, when the Left was cornered with some very good questions on their position, they responded with nasty curses and vilification of opponents. You are no different, nor is Hedy.

Another incident of Hedy's purposeful deceit in order to gain compassion and empathy for her cause....on false pretenses. Again, may be a nice humanitarian, but not really an honest human.

So many people protesting and so little noise. This is NOT the right strategy. Imagine that 1500 people will protest in nude... All the press will be all over it.Our gay club protested about gay marriage issues and in was on the first page of NY gay monthly publication here. Galloway is admired but he must be more daring.

On December 31, participants are hoping to join Palestinians in a non-violent march from northern Gaza to the Erez-Israeli border crossing.

Not only does Epstein disgrace the memory of true holocaust survivors by shamefully manipulating her own past for advantage, she whitewashes Hamas who not only preach genocide against Jews but carry out massacres of Christians and of their political rivals. Shame on her

Any Jew/Israeli that is supportive of human rights (outside of the rights of Jews/Israelis) must be ‘rationalized’ (I use the term very loosely) and considered to be a ‘self-hating Jew’ or worse a ‘supporter of the *enemy*’. How else can such an alien mentality (the appreciation of common human values) be explained?! It is almost as if some pro-Israel supporters cannot comprehend that all humans are equal!? What is very notable on this particular TalkBack is the *lack* of Jews/Israelis who are willing to condemn this self-hating mentality.

Given her age, she is going to end up killing herself over people that gladly want her dead because of her religion and ethnicity. They only keep her alive to use for propaganda purposes. But if they ever got their way and developped a Palestinian state in place of Israel, the Palis would kill Epstein along with all of the other Jews. A Jew is a Jew, to them, regardless of political affiliation. She is going to die sooner for people that don't even care about her. I pity her more than any thing else.

I wish them luck in the "nude-in" in an Arab country...though I'm not sure it will have the same effect as in NYC... but there's only one way to find out.