Does Jimmy Donaldson Support Israel?

Shelly Zimmerman Feb 26, 2025 3 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) has never issued a public statement supporting or criticizing Israel, has no documented visit or direct engagement with the country, and has no Jewish identity or heritage connection. He has been touched by a handful of Israel-adjacent incidents involving other people's actions, but has stayed silent or explicitly disavowed them rather than taking a public side.

What Jimmy Donaldson has actually said and done

April 2022: In a public interview, Donaldson said he had left evangelical Christianity, the faith he was raised in, and now identifies as an "agnostic theist." No Jewish heritage, conversion, or identity connection appears anywhere in his documented biography, according to Wikipedia's biographical record.
August 20, 2023: MrBeast released the video "Every Country in the World Competes for $250,000." The Jerusalem Post reported that his accompanying world map displayed the Israeli and Palestinian flags side by side, though no Palestinian contestant actually appeared in the competition. Donaldson made no public statement about the map.
October 16, 2024: Digital billboards near Chicago (Northbrook, Illinois) were hacked to display "Death to Israel" and other antisemitic slogans over a Palestinian flag, falsely attributed to "MrBeast LLC." His representatives publicly stated he did not pay for or authorize it and said they contacted attorneys and police to have it removed. The display was taken down within roughly 90 minutes, according to both The Jerusalem Post and Newsweek.
August 2025: During MrBeast's record-setting "Team Water" charity livestream, guest streamers xQc and Adin Ross chanted "Free Palestine" after a viewer prompt. Israel National News (Arutz Sheva) reported that cameras showed Donaldson staying silent and looking at his phone, with no on-stream reaction from him.

Jewish identity and the creator-economy connection to Israel

MrBeast is the world's most-subscribed individual YouTuber, known for large-scale stunt videos and philanthropy. He has no Jewish identity, heritage, or conversion documented anywhere in his public record, and his own account of his faith journey (evangelical upbringing, now "agnostic theist") does not touch on Israel or Judaism at all. Across the full record through July 2026, he has consistently avoided taking a public position on Israel or the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The few times his name has intersected with the topic, the substantive action came from other people, not from him: a world-map graphic choice in a 2023 video, a 2024 hack of unrelated billboards that impersonated his brand with antisemitic slogans (which his team moved quickly to disown and remove), and a 2025 livestream where two guest creators, not Donaldson himself, chanted a political slogan while he was reportedly looking at his phone. None of these amount to a statement of support for or against Israel. No credible reporting found in this research documents a visit to Israel, a donation to an Israeli or Jewish charitable cause, or attendance at any Israel-related event by Donaldson.

The bottom line

MrBeast has not expressed public support for or opposition to Israel, has never visited or directly engaged with the country, and has no Jewish identity connection. The Israel-Palestine-related moments tied to his name involve other parties' actions (a video's map choice, a billboard hack, other streamers' chants) that he either stayed silent on or explicitly disavowed, rather than commented on substantively. Three documented incidents exist, none of which constitute an affirmative statement of support either way.

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