Pro-Israel Celebrities
With yet more celebrities coming out against Israel, now seems like a good time to publish this post which I have been working on for a while.
Below is a list of celebrities (dead and alive) who were/are either definitely pro-Israel or have somehow been associated with a pro-Israel cause. Where there is an article proving this, I have linked the celebrity’s name to it. Where an article lists many such celebrities, I have included it under General Sources after the complete list of names.
Note that this post is designed to be a work-in-progress, and not a complete list of pro-Israel celebrities. If you know of other pro-Israel celebrities, please leave their names in the comments, as well as a links to proof of this, and I will update the post accordingly.
Amy Pascal
Anne Kopelson
Annette Bening
Arnold Wesker
Arnon Milchan
Ari Emanuel
Arnold Kopelson
Arthur Cohn
Avi Arad
Avi Lerner
Ben Feingold
Ben Kingsley
Ben Stiller
Bernie Mac
Billy Crystal
Boaz Davidson
Bob Gale
Branko Lustig
Brooke Shields
Bruce Ramer
Bruce Willis
Bryan Cranston
Carol Connors
Carolina La O
Chazz Palminteri
Clint Culpepper
Colin Callender
Cyntheia Pett-Dante
Dakota Fanning
Danny Dimbort
Daniel Adam Sussman
Danny De Vito
Darren Star
David Cronenberg
David Lonner
David Matalon
Dennis Franz
Dennis Hopper
Deran Sarafian
Dick Donnor
Didier Hernandez
Don Johnson
Donald Trump
Doug Liman
Dustin Hoffman
Ed Zwick
Emmanual Nunez
Eric Braeden
Fran Drescher
Frank Price
Gail Berman
Gary Barber
Gary Sinise
Gerard Henderson
Gloria Carlin
Haim Saban
Halle Berry
Harrison Ford
Harry Connick Jr.
Howard Gordon
Hugh Jackman (?)
Howard Rosenman
Ivan Reitman
Irwin Winkler
Jack Carter
Jack Gilardi
James Woods
Jason Alexander
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jerry Seinfeld
Joel Surnow
John Savage
Jon Avnet
Jon Liebman
Jon Lovitz
Jon Voight
Jonathan Glickman
Jonathan Lipnicki
Joshua Malina
Kathy Bates
Kate Linder
Keifer Sutherland
Kellan Lutz
Kelly Kruger
Kelly Preston
Kevin Costner
Kirk Douglas
Kristin Chenowith
Larry Elder
Larry Gelbart
Larry Miller
Laura Ziskin
Lauren Shuler Donner
Lawerence Bender
Lenny Kravitz
Lionel Chetwynd
Lisa Kudrow
Louise Mensch MP
Maria Conchita Alonso
Marc Platt
Mark Gochman
Marvin Hamlisch
Mary Steenburgen
Matt DelPiano
Maureen Lipman
Mayim Bialik
Melissa Manchester
Meyer Gottlieb
Michael Chiklis
Michael Douglas
Michael Mann
Michael Welch
Miguel Ferrer
Millie Perkins
Natalie Cole
Nathalia Ramos
Nathan Kahane
Neal Moritz
Nicole Kidman
Nina Jacobson
Noah Wyle
Norah Jones
Norm Crosby
Paula Abdul
Pat Sajak
Patricia Heaton
Phil Blazer
Randall Emmett
Rick Finkelstein
Rob Lowe
Robert Duvall
Robin Williams
Roger Birnbaum
Ron Meyer
Ronald Harwood
Rupert Murdoch
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sam Raimi
Sam Schwartz
Sandy Wernick
Sarah Drew
Scott Lambert
Serena Williams
Seth Rogen
Shannon Woodward
Shaun Toub
Sherry Lansing
Sid Caesar
Simon Callow
Sir Ridley Scott
Stephen Dorff
Steve Scheffer
Steven Berkoff
Stevie Wonder
Summer Redstone
Sylvester Stallone
Ted Danson
Thomas Calabro
Tom Cruise
Toby McGuire
Tom Dressen
Tony Bennett
Tony Scott
Travis Milne
Valerie Harper
Vivica A. Fox
Warren Beatty
William Friedkin
William Hurt
General Sources:
Support for Sderot is strong at L.A. benefit concert
Live for Sderot Benefit Concert Photo Gallery
Nicole Kidman and 84 Others Are Against Terrorism
US’s best wish Israel happy birthday
60th Anniversary of Israel “From Vision to Reality”
Hollywood Jews: Toronto film fest protest against Israel a ‘blacklist’
The JPost – Israel Solidarity Page
Israel At Sixty American Zionists Salute Israel
To Life! America Celebrates Israel’s 50th
Pro-Israel Celebrities For Habima Speak Up
About the Author
An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Aussie Dave
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Excellent! Many thanks for this list.
Elton John http://blog.goisraelblog.com/2010/02/01/sir-elton…
John Lydon & P.I.L.
http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/columnist…
Johnny, perhaps. Elton? I need more than a visit to Israel or shunning of a boycott to qualify as pro-Israel
Not to forget Bob Dylan – for much more than just "‘Neighborhood Bully’…
In the old days (see the book, The Borsht Belt) there was a fundraiser for Israel called Night of a Thousand Stars. It had all of the comedians, for example. I will look around. We really need to get Lebanese Christian Danny Thomas in this list.
Is everyone who is no an out-spoken Israel critic/obscurantist/enemy on this list?
No! As I wrote below, my criteria was either speaking out in support of Israel or being associated with some pro-Israel event. It takes more than not criticizing Israel
How are you defining celebrity? If you include Glenn Beck, then we can pull in every major radio talk show host, starting with Rush Limbaugh.
I'm a little uncertain of the criteria to make this list, too. I'm a regular Howard Stern listener and my feeling is that he is definitely pro-Israel. Howard Stern is not particularly political. But he does take strong exception to Islamic terrorists, declared enemies of Israel like Hamas and Hezbollah and called Helen Thomas a dirty old c*nt who should move back to Lebanon or wherever old anti-semites go to die. Does this count as being pro-Israel?
My criteria was either speaking out in support of Israel or being associated with some pro-Israel event. It takes more than speaking out against terrorism in general or not criticizing Israel
stern tries to stay apolitical when it comes to israel…and he has stated in the past that he thinks jews are nuts for wanting to live surrounded by arabs
To say I am no fan of Stern's is putting it lightly, but he is certainly a celebrity.
Bernie Mac passed away in 2008.
I made aliyah!
Really? I thought you were there longer.
And Bob Hope before that. I did not limit the list to the living as mentioned in my introduction.
Wait a minute. Isn't this the way the Nixon's Enemies List got started?
I'm not sure if you are kidding. If not, then this is very different. This is a Friends List, compiled by ordinary people not by government officials trying to use their official powers to harass their political "enemies."
This is the story of my life; why I became a government bureaucrat and not a writer on Saturday Night Life. This was an attempt at humor. Geez, nobody gets me!
I am sure you are funnier than SNL was for a large portion of its run. (Admittedly, that's not saying much.
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Some political jokes are funny even if you disagree with them (Tim Russel (?) in Buffalo). Others are only funny if you agree with them (my best example of this was Dennis Miller on SNL – but now he doesn't agree with himslef either!)
Thanks for compiling this list-in-progress. I was quite dismayed to see Ed Asner come out as supporting the boycott of performing in the "West Bank." He's been around and should know better. Tony Kushner is less of a surprise, but he too should think about where there is tolerance and where there is hostility, and realize that he should be siding with Israel.
asner has spoken out against israel in the past…hes another confused lib
you can trash most of this list…the fact that lydon is on there is enough
i will gladly sick lydon on all the 150 nobodys and used to be's on their list
he will rip their throats out
Asner is no surprise, not since that Academy Awards years ago. Bikel is the only disappointment to me.
I would like to join the head of the music school and theater Aspaklaria, who supports the boycott in the hope that maybe now some quality theater will emerge in Israel, instead of the politically correct garbage currently being produced. If I ever become a celebrity like Dave, I can sign the list.
In case anyone wonders why anyone cares, the boycott is mainly against Ariel, which is pretty cosmopolitan. The University actually has a large Arab contingent. (Rhetorical question: How many Jews in Al-Kuds university?)
OK, I'll like them all, as long as I could remember their names!
Here's an easy one. Nathan Strauss, the Macy Department store owner, as well as an important advocate for milk pasteurization. Rechov Strauss in Jerusalem and the city of Netanya are named after him. (For references, see the wikipedia article.)
Add Fidel Castro to that list.
http://www.theatlantic.com/jeffrey-goldberg/
It's not April, is it? And don't you dare. There's more justification for adding Stalin, heaven forbid.
Add Amare Stoudemire: http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/nba/news/story…
You can still support Israel and oppose building towns for Israelis in land seized from the Arabs in 1977.
Lorenzo, you can support Israel and still criticize lots of things, just as you can support a loved one without blindly supporting them. I agree wholeheartedly. Where I disagree is where this supposed support devolves into thinly cloaked prejudice and so on. For instance, if you oppose Israeli development of the lands taken in 1967 then I can respect your position, even though I disagree with it, if you were to tell me that you also support international pressure on India and Pakistan to not develop or otherwise alter the situation in Kashimir until such time as a settlement is reached. Another example is Tibet where you simply MUST support Tibetan rights and international pressure China to stop the cultural eradication of Tibet if you support the Arab position against Israel. Do you? If not, you've singled Israel out, and this is prejudice.
How was it theirs before? Jordan seized it in 1948. I have a friend in Ramot, Jerusalem, whose neighbor is an Arab who settled there in 1949. If my friend is an illegal settler, why isn't his Moslem friend also one?
Since Jews own, run, control Hollywood (fact; not antisemitism), it's impossible to be a celebrity and be anti-Israel.
Tell that to Mel Gibson, Vanessa Redgrave..and the list goes on and on.
"I only appoint your enemies from among yourselves". Thus said the Rabbis, over 1500 years ago.
You're a little fuzzy on your facts and your conclusions are highly illogical. And, besides, aren't you the one who sunk the Titanic?
eh, that was true when hollywood started and still so 50 years ago, then somewhat 30 years ago, but most of the studios they ran have been bought and sold and changed management, even though they kept the name. A better estimate is that the industry is about 25% Jew owned, which is a lot, but not all. Take Disney for instance, Disney has always been anti-Semitic and owns a lot of Hollywood and the associated studios.
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. He's been making semi-regular stops in Israel for years, but Tull has never, to my knowledge, had a single concert in an Arab country, and I think the only Muslim country they've played is Turkey. His first wife was Jewish, so this isn't very surprising.
You forgot Amare Stoudemire.
Look it up. He just got back from Israel about a month ago.
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Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore and James van der Beek. http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/36653/ashto…
Charles Bronson, Chuck Norris, Richard Boone, Gregory Peck
Do you have sources for this?
Norris makes movies in Israel and said he loves to film there. Bronson played in Raid on Entebbe, Richard Boone and Gregory Peck made movies in Israel too.
Richard Boone
http://disc.yourwebapps.com/discussion.cgi?disc=1…
Gregory Peck
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2340198400/nm0000060
Kevin Costner, Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier
Do you think anyone who doesn't support Israel would/could be famous in the USA….I don't think so…..
Either you're kidding or you live in a bubble. There are tons of anti-Israel celebrities. That's the reason for this list.
Oh my, how snark-like.
Jason Isaacs … aka "Lucius Malfoy" in the Harry Potter films and "Michael Caffee" in the "Brotherhood" series, and many, many other roles … his parents and one of his brothers made aliyah back in the '80s, and another brother is a macher in one of the major universities here.
http://www.jpost.com/home/article.aspx?id=125456
fantastic,so many supporting GENOCIDE…such goddamed idiots!!
Look in the mirror, your ugliness.
Ana, the ones supporting genocide are leftist, progressive FAKE anti-war socialists, who NEVER demonstrate against al qada, osama bin laden, hamass, hezbullah.
And it was scotland/uk which released the bomber of Pan Am 103, on "compassionate" grounds, which were in fact "passion" for libyan oil contracts.
http://www.boycottscotland.com
METALLICA
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=metal…
Played a killer show in Ramat Gan this year.
Not really a celebrity, but more than that: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Monte Hall, Sam Levinson, Jackie Robinson, Judy Holiday, Harpo Marx, Gabe Kaplan
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You forgot to mention: Sammy Davis jr.
How about Herman Barron, pro golfer on the 1947 Ryder Cup team, who was instrumental in the development of the first golf course in Israel at Caesarea during the 1960's?
I question whether Tom Cruise should be on this list. I have embedded a youtube video where he screams at pro-Israel demonstrators. I wasn't there. I do not know for sure this is Mr. Cruise, but why does a search on YouTube for him lead to this video? Enlighten me please.[youtube 07vXuOpNd2k&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07vXuOpNd2k&feature=related youtube]
That is not Tom Cruise. The search on YouTube leads to the video because someone named it that way for the shock value, likely to grab attention.
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Shelley Winters__Eddie Cantor__Jeff Chandler__Dana Andrews__Paul Newman__Lee J. Cobb_Merv Griffin_Harpo Marx
Pat Boone
That's not Tom Cruise
Debra Winger
Pamela Anderson: "I love Israel."
Alan King
yah yah…..israeli really knows what's in the future….they're really are the supreme race…
Hello Aussie Dave
thank you for your list
check it out in the description section
WE LOVE ISRAEL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSd7SuBglA
Jean Vercors
All the best
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as Israeli its warms my heart .
thank you
Paul McCartney ignored death threats and protests from various groups, and paid a fair amount of his own money for security, to play Tel Aviv for Israel's 60th. Not to mention his first wife, Linda Eastman, and his future wife, Nancy Shevell, are both Jewish.
Elton John also defied attempted boycotts of Israel to play there in 2010, denouncing other artists who canceled their visits, and supposedly said at the concert "Shalom, we are so happy to be back here! Ain't nothing gonna stop us from coming, baby," with a fist in the air.
[...] isn’t wholly alone – here’s a list-in-progress of celebrities, including such A-listers as actors Natalie Portman and Harrison Ford, who have oral out in support [...]
Four names-Janine Turner-Chuck Norris- Kirk cameron-John Schnieder
Wow, this is really funny stuff.