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Jon Voight Claims Daughter Angelina Jolie ‘Ignorant’ About Israel, ‘Influenced by Antisemitic People’
Jon Voight at the opening night of the 2023 Beverly Hills Film Festival held at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres in Hollywood, California, on April 19, 2023. Photo: FS//AdMedia/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
Actor Jon Voight accused his daughter, actress and filmmaker Angelina Jolie, of being uniformed about Israel and swayed by antisemites while commenting on their differing political views about the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in a new interview with Variety magazine.
In November, a mere three weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre and the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Jolie criticized Israel’s military actions targeting terrorists in the Gaza Strip. “This is the deliberate bombing of a trapped population who have nowhere to flee,” she wrote in an Instagram post. “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.”
Her Instagram post was the second time that Jolie publicly commented on the Israel-Hamas war. Both times, she did not mention Hamas by name or the rockets fired by the terror group from Gaza on Israeli civilians during the ongoing war.
The Oscar winner spent over 20 years working with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, first as a goodwill ambassador from 2001–2012 and then as a special envoy from 2012-2022.
A day after Jolie’s Instagram post in November, Voight, who is an avid supporter of Israel, criticized the anti-Israel views of his once-estranged daughter who he reconciled with over the years. The 85-year-old bashed Jolie’s anti-Israel stance several times again during his interview with Variety, which was published on Tuesday.
“She has been exposed to propaganda,” the former “Ray Donovan” star said about his daughter. “She’s been influenced by antisemitic people. Angie has a connection to the UN, and she’s enjoyed speaking out for refugees. But these people are not refugees.”
Voight — who has said he feels an obligation to combat antisemitism – then accused the “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” star of being trapped in a Hollywood “bubble” and not having access to real information about the Israel-Hamas war. Voight told Variety: “Angie, I think she hasn’t been available to this information because in Hollywood people don’t share this kind of stuff. They’re way off. They have no idea what’s going on. It’s a bubble.”
“It comes from ignorance, like everything else,” Voight explained. “It’s like, why are these kids in the universities siding with Hamas, right? It’s because of ignorance. They don’t know the story.”
He further told the magazine that while he loves his daughter and does not want to fight with her, he believes she has “been influenced by the UN.” He said the United Nations claims to care about human rights, but when it comes to the actions of Israel, “it’s just anti-Israel bashing.”
“She’s ignorant of what the real stakes are and what the real story is because she’s in the loop of the United Nations,” he further claimed about Jolie.
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240 Arrested as IDF Dismantles Hamas HQ Inside Kamel Adwan Hospital
Illustrative. Smoke rises following Israeli strikes in Gaza, October 8, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
i24 News – Israeli forces concluded an operation to dismantle a Hamas terror headquarters in Gaza’s Kamel Adwan Hospital. Some 240 terror suspects were arrested, including the hospital’s director and some 15 terrorists who took part in the October 7 massacre.
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IAF Downs Two Gazan Rockets Fired Towards Jerusalem
Illustrative. Rockets are fired from Gaza into Israel, in Gaza May 11, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammd Salem
JNS.org – The Israeli Air Force on Saturday downed two rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip towards Jerusalem.
The attack triggered air-raid sirens in the capital, the Western Negev and the the Judean Foothills (the Shfela).
There were no reports of injuries.
Following the rocket fire, the military again called on Palestinians to evacuate parts of the northern Strip.
“Urgent warning to all those who have not yet evacuated the area specified in the map, and the Beit Hanun area [in the Strip’s northeast] in particular,” Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, posted to X.
“This area has been warned many times in the past. The IDF is operating in this area with force. You must evacuate the area immediately and move south towards Salah El Din Road. Moving via another road exposes you to danger,” he added.
On Dec. 11, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired four rockets at southern Israel, setting off sirens in several towns and villages along the border. The Israel Defense Forces intercepted two of the rockets, with the others impacting in open areas, causing no damage.
On Dec. 3, the IAF intercepted one rocket fired from northern Gaza.
The IDF’s year-plus-long offensive against Hamas in the enclave has greatly curbed rocket fire from the Strip, although Palestinian terrorists still intermittently target the Jewish state.
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Putin Apologizes Over ‘Tragic Incident’ with Azerbaijan Airlines Plane Crash
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Photo: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov
i24 News – Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev for what he said represented a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed on Wednesday.
Flight J2-8243 crashed in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from southern Russia where Ukrainian drones were reported to be attacking several cities. At least 38 people were killed while 29 survived.
“Vladimir Putin apologized for the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again expressed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,” the Kremlin said in a statement.
“It was noted in the conversation that the Azerbaijani passenger aircraft, which was traveling according to its schedule, repeatedly tried to land at Grozny airport. At that time, Grozny, Mozdok and Vladikavkaz were being attacked by Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, and Russian air defense systems repelled these attacks,” the Kremlin said.
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