Celebrities Supporting Israel

"We are not all right ... when we see grandmothers being pulled away and children shot in front of their families."

"We are not all right when right here in the city of New York you have those who celebrate, at the same time when the devastation is taking place."

New York Mayor Eric Adam, October 10

 

"We are not OK. Something's really broken in the world ... to see the whole world kind of in this state of moral paralyzation for whatever reason, trying to find some context for these evil acts, that made me very angry, and very scared."

"I've gotten a little sense of what it['s like to be Jewish in the last couple of months. But what I say to them is, 'Those are the same arguments people used in 1938 before the Holocaust'."

"If everybody spoke up and had moral courage or clarity, this war wouldn't be happening."

John Ondrasik, American singer-songwriter 

"I know for sure the atrocities and ensuing celebrations committed by Hamas are inexcusable  and unjustifiable ... Israel is our friend and ally."

"They don't need us to just be their friend in good times. They need us to be their friend in bad times. To be their friend when it is easier not to be..."

"this is a really great time to show Israel and the world who we are."

"I'll give  you some context [Claudine Gay, Sally Kornbluth and Liz Magill]. While you were intellectually selling out, bringing shame to your institutions and this country, I was working with the Israeli consulate viewing the highly restricted footage of Oct. from actual body cams of terrorists themselves, victims' cellphones recovered from their dead, tortured, raped, desecrated bodies, as well as raw CCTV footage and other sources."

Dr. Phil McGraw, Talk show host

 

"When I first watched the 17-minute video I didn't wish seeing that upon anybody -- not being able to sleep at night, imagining it was you, your family or kids."

"I now feel every kid on every college campus unfortunately needs to see this video because without it you do not have the whole picture."

"I believe the majority of you are good people and when you see this video you will absolutely agree that Israel has been on the frontlines defending us from what I saw."

"Without Israel, that will happen to all of us."

"When I received thousands upon thousands of messages of gratitude, [after addressing Canada's Rally for the Jewish People on Parliament Hill in December] I realized it's because there's not enough non-Jewish people to stand up." 

"I'm proud to stand up for the Jewish community against terrorism and online bullying. I'm here to inspire other people -- non-Jewish people -- to do the same thing. Thank you guys. Sending you all so much love. I love each and every one of you and I will never shut up."

Caroline D'Amore, entrepreneur, reality TV star, founder, CEO Pizza Girl Inc.

"I'm in a business that's about imagining," says actor Susan Sarandon. Sarandon joined CODEPINK on Capitol Hill on Feb. 15, 2024 to protest U.S. support for Israel's bombardment of Gaza.

We hear and read about celebrity figures in the arts, in popular culture, in Hollywood, condemning Israel for its invasion of Gaza in search of Hamas operatives, for their intention of destroying the vast Hamas terrorist infrastructure that undermines Gaza, for bombing raids that inevitably, in any conflict, has fallout for the civilian population. These are people whose condemnation of Israel as an 'apartheid' state, as an 'occupying' state, harbouring the intention of 'genocide' against Palestinians, choose to believe the unmitigated lies and blood libels issuing from Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Palestinian Authority's President Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust-denier and antisemite himself.

For Jews worldwide, feeling beleaguered and oppressed yet again by a public that turns on Israel and Jews in general whenever an eruption of violence against Israel by Hamas, Hezbollah, PFLP, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other Palestinian terrorist group that crops up to menace they will succeed in destroying the Jewish State and with it, its Jewish population, a collective sigh of gratefulness emanates from the broader community where the fresh wind of empathy from other public figures resonates.

Non-Jewish personalities publicly casting support for Israel and Jewish people holds out hope that all is not lost. Shortly after October 7, that infamous day of relentless, sadistic savagery that saw Israeli girls and women raped, tortured and murdered, when entire families were burnt to death in their homes, when an influx of barbaric murderers crossed from Gaza into Israel to slaughter 1,200 civilians and kidnap 240 children, elderly and ill, women and men to Gaza, where Palestinian civilians abused, jeered and beat the captives, popular entertainer Justin Bieber posted "Praying for Israel" on Instagram.

Madonna shared a video with her 19.3 million followers, expressing sorrow for Israel, while Dwayne Johnson shared a reel with his 397 million followers in support of Israel, deploring the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former NBA all-star, shares pro-Israel Substack posts regularly with his 1.1 million Instagram followers. In the wake of the Al-Ahli hospital airstrike in Gaza when Hamas said Israel was responsible and it was later determined a misfired rocket was the cause, Abdul-Jabar posted: "Who was actually responsible for the deaths and destruction. No one does ... I certainly don't believe Hamas. They lost all credibility when they invaded Israel, took hostages, and set the mass violence in motion."

In contrast, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Melanie Joly, Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs chose immediately to give credit to the Palestinian Health Ministry's account of the bombing and its casualties, direct from the unverifiable mouth of Hamas, rather than trust the denials emanating from the Israel Defense Forces that they had no hand in the catastrophe. It was a misfired rocket headed for Israel, set off by the Islamic Jihad group that was responsible.

 

In his turn, Dr. Phil spoke disparagingly of "a disturbing degree of ivy-covered intellectual rot" at universities, that he holds are failing at shaping and educating young minds under their tutelage. Among the first to publicly condemn university leadership for "not only indulging, but actually endorsing sanctioned student organizations holding celebrations for murders", his was a voice of reason in the condemnatory wilderness. 

Dr. Phil Primetime airing on his network, Merit Street Media, featured Mosab Hassan Yousef, disowned son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef who defected to Israel in 1997, working undercover for Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service before relocating in 2007 to the U.S. Mosab exposed the indoctrination of Palestinian children against Israel at Gaza schools, and countered University of Michigan anti-Israel activists who refused condemnation of the murder of innocents, claiming the events to be complex, requiring historical context.

"When I ask you if what happened on October 7 is something you condemn, and you say, 'Well, you have to look at that by looking at hundreds of years of conflict, no, you don't. No, you don't."

"That's either right or wrong. It was wrong. And I don't need 100 years of conflict to know it was wrong."

"When somebody comes over a fence and goes into someone's house and burns their infant in its crib, I don't give a damn why they did it. It's wrong."

Dr.Phil

Debra Messing spoke at the March for Israel in Washington, D.C. on November 14th, 2023. FOX5 YouTube

"Have you ever thought, gee, if I were a German during World War Two, I hope I would be that person who would stand up for my Jewish neighbours?"

"Well, guess what -- we have that opportunity today. Right now the Jewish people are being slaughtered by terrorists as we speak."

"Reach out to your Jewish friends. Tell them you support them. If you don't know any Jewish friends, call your local synagogue, ask if there's anything you can do to support them."

"And if you're active on social media, please stand up for Israel."

Patricia Heaton, Star of Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle, Carol's Second Act