Short answer: As of July 2026, George Clooney has no clear public record of either supporting or opposing the State of Israel, and his concrete Israel-linked actions point in different directions. On one hand he narrated a 2018 documentary honoring Israeli statesman Shimon Peres. On the other, in 2024 he privately lobbied the White House to protect his wife, human-rights lawyer Amal Clooney, after she helped the International Criminal Court seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders over the Gaza war. He has not endorsed Israel, and he has not joined any anti-Israel boycott.
What George Clooney has actually said and done
- 2018: Clooney narrated Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres, a documentary produced by Moriah Films (the film arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center) honoring the late Israeli president and Nobel Peace laureate, as Variety reported. It is his clearest positive, Israel-adjacent professional engagement on record.
- December 3, 2021: In a Guardian interview relayed by Variety, Clooney said he turned down a $35 million one-day airline commercial because it was tied to "a country that, although it's an ally, is questionable at times." He refused to name the country or airline. Media speculation floated Israel, Turkey, and the UAE, but no source confirms which country he meant, so this is not evidence of a position on Israel.
- May 20, 2024: Amal Clooney publicly confirmed she served on the ICC expert panel and supported prosecutor Karim Khan's request for arrest warrants against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, alongside three Hamas leaders, saying, "I served on this panel because I believe in rule of law and the need to protect civilian lives." As Newsweek noted, George issued no public statement of his own.
- Late May 2024 (reported June 6, 2024): George Clooney phoned White House counselor Steve Ricchetti after President Biden called the ICC warrant applications "outrageous," reportedly worried that Amal could face US sanctions threatened against the court. The call took place in late May, ahead of the June 15 Biden reelection fundraiser Clooney was hosting in Los Angeles. This is his most direct Israel-related action, reported by The Washington Post and confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter. Note that it was a defense of his wife's ICC work, not a public statement about Israel itself.
- September 8, 2025: Film Workers for Palestine published a pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions "implicated in genocide and apartheid," eventually signed by thousands of industry figures (Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Javier Bardem, and others), as reported by CBC News. George Clooney is not among the signatories, and, as the Times of Israel reported, more than 1,200 Hollywood figures signed a counter-letter opposing the boycott.
Why his name comes up: it runs through Amal, not George
George Clooney is an American actor, director, and longtime humanitarian, best known on the human-rights front for his Darfur and Sudan advocacy. He was raised Catholic in Kentucky and has no known Jewish heritage, so "George Clooney Palestine" searches are not about his own identity. His connection to the Israel-Palestine question runs almost entirely through his wife, British-Lebanese human-rights barrister Amal Clooney, who joined the ICC expert panel that recommended arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. That pairing (Amal's ICC role plus George's 2024 White House call to protect her from possible US sanctions) is why his name surfaces at all. His own direct comments on the conflict are sparse. In October 2023, at a Los Angeles film-school appearance, he called the regional situation "heartbreaking" and noted "my wife is Lebanese," reacting to a journalist's death in Lebanon, though that clip is video-only and not from a primary print outlet, so treat it as a soft data point. The overall picture is genuinely mixed and mostly indirect: no pro-Israel advocacy, no anti-Israel boycott participation, and no documented hostility toward Israel or Jews.
The bottom line
George Clooney is neither a public supporter nor a documented opponent of Israel. His record is thin and indirect: a 2018 tribute-documentary narration honoring Shimon Peres on one side, and a 2024 private effort to shield Amal after her ICC work against Israeli leaders on the other. He has not joined the film-industry boycott of Israel. Anyone searching "George Clooney Palestine" is really encountering Amal Clooney's ICC panel work and George's defense of her, not a stated position of his own on Israel.
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Last updated July 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
