Does Gordon Ramsay Support Israel?

Tal Feldman Feb 26, 2025 Updated Jul 27, 2026 3 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, Gordon Ramsay has never publicly declared a position on Israel. The only documented connection is a September 2018 trip to Jerusalem's Old City, where he posted a series of enthusiastic Instagram videos and, per the Jerusalem Post, was reportedly filming an ad for an Israeli software company. He has made no known public statement about the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, the hostages, or the Gaza war, has not joined or publicly rejected any boycott of Israel, and has no known Jewish heritage. The "he supports Israel" read that circulates online rests entirely on that single warm 2018 visit and his general silence since; the opposite read, that his silence amounts to complicity, rests on the exact same two facts.

What Gordon Ramsay has actually said and done

September 20, 2018: On his first trip to Jerusalem, Ramsay toured the Old City souk and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and posted roughly a dozen enthusiastic Instagram videos, saying things like "This place is crazy... beautiful" and "Wow. Amazing... pretty incredible." A final clip showed a menu specially prepared in his name at the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem, where he appears to have stayed, according to the Times of Israel.
September 21, 2018: The Jerusalem Post reported that Ramsay's Jerusalem visit coincided with filming an advertising campaign for an unnamed Israeli software company, framing the trip as commercial as well as personal.
October 2023 to July 2026: No public statement, donation, event appearance, or comment from Ramsay on the October 7 Hamas attack, the Israeli hostages, or the Gaza war turns up in any reputable news search through July 2026. His English-language Wikipedia biography, which does log his other controversies and political brushes, contains no mention of Israel, Gaza, or Palestine at all, an absence that both mainstream coverage and pro-Palestinian trackers who actively look for such statements appear to agree on, including Reverse Canary Mission.
As of 2026: Two opposing activist-run tracking sites cite the same 2018 Jerusalem visit as their only evidence and reach opposite verdicts. Israeli.Company categorizes Ramsay as someone who "Supports Israel" solely because he "visited Israel in 2018 for culinary tour and praised Israeli cuisine," while the pro-Palestinian site Reverse Canary Mission lists him as complicit for the same visit plus his subsequent silence on Gaza. Neither is a news outlet; both are advocacy or tracking projects, and neither cites any statement or action by Ramsay beyond the 2018 trip.

A quiet faith, and a fan-made cookbook that isn't really his

Gordon Ramsay is broadly apolitical in his public brand. He is not Jewish; multiple sources describe him as having a quiet Protestant Christian faith and a Catholic upbringing, and no reputable source ties him to Jewish heritage or Jewish-identity organizations. His single documented Israel connection is the September 2018 Jerusalem trip, confirmed independently by both the Times of Israel and the Jerusalem Post: he toured the Old City, posted warmly about it on Instagram, and was reportedly there partly to film a commercial for an Israeli software company that was never publicly named. That is the entire verifiable public record. No reputable outlet reports a follow-up visit, an Israeli restaurant venture, a donation to an Israeli or Jewish cause, an industry event tied to Israel, or any comment, for or against, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before or after October 7, 2023. There is also no record of him joining, endorsing, or publicly refusing any boycott of Israel. Worth setting aside: a "Ramsay's Kosher Kitchen" cookbook circulating online is a fan-made, unofficial project by a third party, not written or endorsed by Ramsay, and has no bearing on his actual position.

The bottom line

The honest answer is that nobody knows, because Ramsay has never said. He has one warm, on-the-record moment in Israel, in Jerusalem in September 2018, and total public silence on the Israel-Palestine conflict before and after October 7, including through the Gaza war. That combination is genuinely ambiguous: it reads as quiet support to some and as complicit silence to others, but both readings are inference from the same thin record, not anything Ramsay has confirmed himself. There is no evidence he has boycotted Israel, donated to Israeli or Palestinian causes, or has any Jewish-identity connection.

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