Short answer: Yes and no, it is genuinely contested. As of August 2026, "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular (real name Braden Peters) spent about a week in Tel Aviv in mid-July 2026, livestreaming warmly about Israel, meeting a rabbi and filming with Israeli personalities. At one kosher dinner he was confronted for more than half an hour by Chana Boteach, an IDF veteran and daughter of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who called him a neo-Nazi to his face. Netanyahu adviser Topaz Luk later said Peters had asked to express regret for his antisemitic remarks, though no apology has materialized. But he arrived carrying an unapologized-for record: in January 2026 he was filmed singing along to a Ye song built on a Hitler speech at a Miami nightclub alongside Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Sneako, and when an Israeli reporter raised it during his Tel Aviv trip, he ended the interview rather than answer. His visit also triggered a real scandal: an IDF soldier who appeared on his livestream was disciplined and removed from her post. Pro-Israel and Jewish commentators are visibly split on whether hosting him helped or hurt.
What Clavicular has actually said and done
Mid-January 2026: At Vendome nightclub in Miami Beach, Clavicular was filmed with Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Tristan Tate, Sneako, and Myron Gaines singing along as the club played Ye's "Heil Hitler," a track built on a Hitler speech. The club later apologized and Miami Beach's mayor condemned the video as glorifying the Holocaust, according to The Jerusalem Post and Miami New Times.
Week of July 13, 2026: Clavicular visited Tel Aviv, livestreaming from beaches, restaurants, and nightclubs. He met Rabbi Yossi Farro at the Royal Beach Hotel, who gave him a necklace combining a Star of David with the OpenAI logo, and he was asked to leave the Loullie beach club after another influencer, Aaron Morali, flagged him to staff, according to The Times of Israel.
Monday, July 13, 2026: When a journalist asked Clavicular about the January Nazi-song incident, he did not apologize. Instead he said, "Why don't you talk about how much I have done for this country's reputation?" and ended the interview, calling the question an attempt to "drag me to the mud," per The Jerusalem Post.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026: The IDF removed soldier Shira Braun, who worked in its Spokesperson's Unit international communications division, from her role and transferred her out of her unit after she appeared on Clavicular's livestream. She also received a suspended jail sentence that activates only on a further disciplinary offense, according to Ynet and Israel National News.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, asked by TMZ about Clavicular's Tel Aviv trip, said she hoped he would "use his platform to give also some light" to Palestinian displacement, underscoring how the visit had become a national talking point, reported the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Throughout July 2026: Israeli and Jewish influencers split publicly over the visit. Some, including an Israeli social-media personality who filmed content with him, treated his presence as good publicity for Israel, while others, including Golda Daphna and Eden Sisson, publicly condemned collaborating with him given his record, per The Times of Israel.
Context: what this visit was, and wasn't
Clavicular is not Jewish and has no documented Jewish-identity connection; his engagement with Israel appears to be tourism and content, not heritage or advocacy. He has made no formal statement of support for Israel as a cause, and no donations or boycott-related stance have surfaced in reporting through August 2026. His Tel Aviv visit reads in the coverage as a personal appearance trip, beaches, restaurants, meeting a rabbi and filming with local influencers, rather than advocacy. It was the January 2026 Nazi-song incident and his refusal to apologize for it, not anything he has said against Israel, that drove the controversy. Israeli outlets covered the visit largely through the lens of "should Israel be hosting this person," including a Jerusalem Post opinion piece questioning why he was let into the country at all.
The bottom line
Clavicular has not made a case for or against Israel; he visited it, was welcomed by some voices and shunned by others, and never resolved the antisemitism controversy that trailed him there. Treating his trip as evidence of "supporting Israel" would be a stretch: it was a livestreamed personal visit by someone who, days earlier, would not apologize for singing along to a Hitler-referencing song, and it ended with an Israeli soldier being disciplined over her association with him.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
