Jon Voight blasts daughter Angelina Jolie’s anti-Israel stance
The
Times of Israel
Pro-Israel
actor says Israel-Hamas war is fight for Holy Land, denounces Hamas atrocities
and calls pro-Palestinian activists ‘fools’
By
MICHAEL HOROVITZ
5
November 2023, 10:25 am
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jon-voight-blasts-daughter-angelina-jolies-anti-israel-stance/
Veteran
Hollywood actor Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, on Saturday
expressed disappointment at his daughter’s recent condemnation of Israel’s
offensive against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.
In
an Instagram post on
November 2 that has almost 4 million likes, Jolie slammed the campaign in Gaza
as “the deliberate bombing of a trapped population” and “murder,” charging that
world leaders were complicit in the crimes by blocking UN Security Council
resolutions calling for a ceasefire.
Voight,
a conservative who has made strong pro-Israel statements in the past,
repeatedly stressed the religious aspect of the war, labeling it as a fight for
the “justice of God’s children in the Holy Land,” in a video posted to X.
Yossi
Dagan, on February 16, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council)
Veteran
Hollywood actor Jon Voight, father of Angelina Jolie, on Saturday expressed
disappointment at his daughter’s recent condemnation of Israel’s offensive
against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip.
In
an Instagram post on
November 2 that has almost 4 million likes, Jolie slammed the campaign in Gaza
as “the deliberate bombing of a trapped population” and “murder,” charging that
world leaders were complicit in the crimes by blocking UN Security Council
resolutions calling for a ceasefire.
Voight,
a conservative who has made strong pro-Israel statements in the past,
repeatedly stressed the religious aspect of the war, labeling it as a fight for
the “justice of God’s children in the Holy Land,” in a video posted to X.
“I’m
very disappointed in my daughter, like so many,” Voight said, adding that she
did not understand the conflict was about the destruction of the Holy Land —
“the Land of the Jews.”
Voight
denounced the October 7 atrocities committed by Hamas as “inhuman terror on
innocent babies, mothers, fathers, grandparents,” and slammed pro-Palestinian
activists: “You fools call Israel the problem.”
“They’ve
been given huge infusions of money, that they didn’t share with the people.
They made weapons instead, for their rage,” Voight said, adding that Gazans
“are prisoners of the barbaric country that use them as shields.”
“Hamas
and this deceit of their ruling is destroying their own people,” he added.
He
also hailed the “great heroism” of Jewish people in the face of a series of
tragedies throughout history, from the Holocaust to the recent “Hamas
Holocaust.”
In
her Instagram post, Jolie shared a photo of a recent Israeli strike in the
Strip’s north, saying: “Gaza has been an open-air prison for nearly two decades
and is fast becoming a mass grave. 40% of those killed are innocent children.
Whole families are being murdered.”
She
added: “By refusing to demand a humanitarian ceasefire and blocking the UN
Security Council from imposing one on both parties, world leaders are complicit
in these crimes.”
Last
year, Voight visited Israel and toured settlements in the West Bank, where he
met Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council.
Dagan
presented Voight with a bottle of wine from the Har Bracha winery and told him
that it was “a great honor to host an important actor like you and more
importantly a friend of Israel.”
According
to a statement from the council, Voight said at the time: “I don’t understand
why Judea and Samaria is called the West Bank, when it’s clear that if you look
at a map Samaria is at the heart of the Land of Israel.”
During
the 2014 war against Hamas, Voight penned an article in The Hollywood Reporter that slammed “obviously ignorant”
actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz for attacking Israel.
Israel
declared war with the aim of eradicating Hamas following the terror group’s
devastating October 7 onslaught, in which some 1,400 people, mostly civilians,
were brutally murdered in their homes and at a music festival, and over 240
more were abducted, including some 30 babies and children.
Times
of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Connecting
the Dots:
Lynne Segall was
an associate publisher for the Hollywood Reporter and a VP for
the Los Angeles Times.
Rosa Brooks was
a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and special counsel to
the president for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for
the Doctors Without Borders.
George Soros is the founder
& chairman for the Open Society Foundations and was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for
the Millennium Promise.
Jolie/Pitt Foundation was a funder for
the Doctors Without Borders.
Angelina Jolie is
a co-founder for the Jolie/Pitt Foundation and was a director at
the Millennium Promise.
Resources:
Past Research
Brad
Pitt and Angelina Jolie Fly Coach with 6 Children (Past
Research on Angelina Jolie)
TUESDAY,
JUNE 9, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/06/brad-pitt-and-angelina-jolie-fly-coach.html
Pressure
Mounts on DiCaprio to Return ‘Ill-Gotten’ Foundation Donations (Past Research on The Hollywood Reporter)
TUESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 13, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/09/pressure-mounts-on-dicaprio-to-return.html
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