Short answer: Yes, with a well-documented misstep along the way. Jamie Lee Curtis publicly and repeatedly supported Israel after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, including signing a Hollywood open letter with more than 700 names condemning Hamas and backing Israel. She also drew criticism for briefly posting a photo she mistakenly captioned as showing Israeli "terror from the skies," which actually depicted Palestinian children fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza (she deleted it and apologized), and for comparing the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires to wartime Gaza. She has Jewish heritage through her father, actor Tony Curtis, and has helped restore synagogues tied to his family's Hungarian roots. As of August 2026.
What Jamie Lee Curtis has actually said and done
October 12, 2023: Curtis was among more than 700 Hollywood figures, including Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Jerry Seinfeld, and Michael Douglas, who signed an open letter organized by the nonprofit Creative Community for Peace condemning Hamas and expressing support for Israel in the wake of the October 7 attacks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Shortly after October 7, 2023: Curtis posted an image on Instagram of children cowering under falling missiles, captioned "Terror from the skies" alongside an Israeli flag emoji, intending to illustrate Israeli suffering. The photo, taken by freelance photographer Samar Abu Elouf, actually showed Palestinian children in northern Gaza fleeing Israeli airstrikes, as the photographer's own caption made clear. After followers pointed out the error, Curtis deleted the post, according to HuffPost and IMDb.
November 2023: Accepting the Advocate of the Year award at The Advocate's Out100 gala, Curtis addressed the backlash over the mistaken photo directly, saying she is "human and therefore flawed and contradictory" and that she makes mistakes and tries to own them. In the same speech, she prayed for "the cessation of violence perpetrated against all people, all over the world, especially the children," per Variety.
January 2025: At a Q&A event for her film "The Last Showgirl" during the Los Angeles wildfires, Curtis said, "The entire Pacific Palisades looks like, unfortunately, Gaza or one of these war-torn countries where awful things have happened." The comparison drew criticism from commentators on both sides, some who felt it minimized the war's toll on Israelis and others who felt it trivialized Gaza's destruction as a metaphor, according to The Jerusalem Post and The New Arab.
Heritage background: Curtis's father, actor Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz), was the son of Jewish emigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary. Though raised without a formal religious upbringing, Curtis explored her Jewish heritage as an adult and took an active role in restoring a synagogue in Mátészalka tied to her grandparents, attending the opening of a Jewish heritage memorial museum there, according to Hey Alma and Kveller.
2026: Curtis remains publicly active, with her series "Scarpetta" premiering on Amazon Prime Video on March 11, 2026, and an appearance at the California Hall of Fame Ceremony on March 19, 2026, per IMDb. Nothing in the record has changed her Israel-related standing since the 2023-2025 events above.
How to read her record
Jamie Lee Curtis is a longtime Hollywood actress, known for "Halloween," "True Lies," and an Academy Award win for "Everything Everywhere All at Once," with Jewish heritage on her father's side. Her record on Israel since October 7, 2023 is genuinely mixed but net supportive. She signed the large, industry-wide open letter backing Israel and condemning Hamas early on, which put her firmly on record within days of the attack. She also made a well-publicized error, posting a photo of Palestinian children as though they depicted Israeli victims, which she promptly deleted and later addressed publicly. In January 2025, her comparison of Los Angeles wildfire devastation to Gaza's destruction drew criticism from multiple directions rather than reading as a statement against Israel. There is no public record of her visiting Israel, making a documented donation to an Israeli or Israel-related charity, or participating in any boycott.
The bottom line
Jamie Lee Curtis has been a public, on-record supporter of Israel since October 7, 2023, signing the industry open letter, and she carries Jewish family heritage through her father. Her overall public record is not uncomplicated, though: it includes a mistaken pro-Israel post that actually used a Palestinian Gaza photo, later corrected, and a subsequent comparison of the LA wildfires to Gaza that drew pushback from observers on multiple sides. There is no evidence of a boycott, no reported visit to Israel, and no documented direct donation to Israeli causes.
Wear your own answer
Whatever you make of any one celebrity's mixed record, plenty of people prefer to state their own support for Israel plainly rather than parse someone else's Instagram history. If that is you, the I Stand With Israel bracelet or the wider I Stand With Israel collection is a simple, everyday way to do that.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
