Does Chris Evans Support Israel?

David Svetsky Feb 25, 2025 4 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, Chris Evans has never made a public statement supporting or opposing Israel, and he has not endorsed either side of the Israel-Hamas war. His only concrete ties to the subject are professional and incidental: he starred as a heroic Israeli Mossad agent in the 2019 Netflix film "The Red Sea Diving Resort," and in 2024 a resurfaced photo falsely claimed he had signed an Israeli bomb bound for Gaza. He clarified that the object was an inert US military training aid and pointedly did not comment on Israel or Gaza either way. Evans is not Jewish; he was raised Catholic in Boston in an Irish and Italian family.

What Chris Evans has actually said and done

June 13, 1981: Chris Evans is born in Boston, Massachusetts, into an Irish and Italian family and raised Catholic. He has no reported Jewish heritage, and in later years he has described himself as more spiritual than religious, per his Wikipedia biography.
December 2016: During a USO holiday tour of American troops in Turkey (alongside Scarlett Johansson and others), Evans signs an inert explosive-ordnance-disposal training aid modeled on an artillery shell. As Yahoo Entertainment later documented, this is the photo that would be misused to allege he backed Israel's Gaza operations.
July 31, 2019: Netflix releases "The Red Sea Diving Resort" (after a July 28 premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival), directed by Israeli filmmaker Gideon Raff, with Evans playing Mossad agent Ari Levinson in the true story of Operation Brothers, the 1980s Israeli mission that smuggled thousands of Ethiopian Jews to safety in Israel. As the Jewish Telegraphic Agency covered, this is his only substantive on-screen tie to Israel, and it is a role, not personal advocacy.
August 2019: The film draws social-media backlash and "white-savior" criticism for centering Israeli Mossad agents over the Ethiopian Jewish refugees, per Wikipedia. Evans never publicly addressed the criticism.
October 12, 2023: A Creative Community for Peace open letter condemning the October 7 Hamas attacks and supporting Israel gathers more than 700 Hollywood signatories (Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Liev Schreiber and others), as reported by Variety. Chris Evans is not among the signers, consistent with his general silence on the conflict.
May 31, 2024: The 2016 USO photo resurfaces virally, days after Nikki Haley was pictured signing an Israeli artillery shell and after an Israeli strike in Rafah, with claims that Evans had signed a bomb for Gaza. Evans clarifies on Instagram that the object "is not a bomb, or a missile, or a weapon of any kind" but an inert training aid, a point the US Air Force confirms. He does not comment on Israel or Gaza. This was reported by The Hollywood Reporter and separately by Yahoo Entertainment.
June 2024: After the clarification, pro-Palestinian activists criticize Evans for not using the moment to condemn Israel, a reaction covered by AOL. An anti-Israel activist campaign site goes further and labels him "Openly Zionist," listing him as "complicit" on two counts: his role in "The Red Sea Diving Resort," which it calls pro-Israel propaganda, and his silence on Gaza.

Why people search "Chris Evans Israel," and what his record actually shows

Chris Evans, best known as Marvel's Captain America, was born June 13, 1981 in Boston and raised Catholic in an Irish and Italian family. He is not Jewish and has no reported Jewish ancestry, according to his Wikipedia biography. His public activism has centered on US domestic politics: he co-founded the nonpartisan civic platform A Starting Point in 2020 and has spoken on healthcare and taxes, but he has stayed silent on Israel and Palestine. The search interest traces to two things. First is his 2019 lead role in "The Red Sea Diving Resort," an Israeli-directed Netflix drama in which he plays a Mossad agent rescuing Ethiopian Jews, a film that portrays Israel sympathetically but remains a screen role rather than a personal endorsement (per the JTA and Wikipedia). Second, and larger, is the 2024 viral falsehood that he signed an Israeli bomb; the photo was actually from a 2016 USO troop visit in Turkey and showed an inert US training aid, which Evans and the US Air Force confirmed (per The Hollywood Reporter). Notably, in that same statement he declined to say anything about Israel or Gaza, and he did not sign the pro-Israel Hollywood letter of October 2023. His silence is documented from both directions, including by pro-Palestinian activists who have criticized him for it.

The bottom line

The straightforward answer is that Chris Evans has taken no public position on Israel. He is neither a documented supporter nor a documented critic; the record is genuine silence. What exists is a 2019 film role as a heroic Mossad agent and a 2024 debunked hoax about signing an Israeli bomb, in which he explicitly avoided commenting on the conflict. Anyone claiming he "supports Israel" or "opposes Israel" is going beyond the evidence.

Support Israel directly, whatever the celebrities do

Some stars make their stance loud, and some, like Evans, stay quiet. You do not need a celebrity to speak for you. The one Israel tie that keeps resurfacing for Evans is his turn as a Mossad agent in a story about rescuing Ethiopian Jews, and you can wear that spirit plainly with our Mossad t-shirt. If you would rather let your everyday choices do the talking, browse our Support Israel collection, where every purchase backs Israeli-made goods and lets you show where you stand without waiting for anyone in Hollywood to say a word.

Last updated July 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.