Short answer: No. Lana Del Rey is not a supporter of Israel in any advocacy sense. As of August 2026, the public record shows she withdrew from an Israeli music festival in 2018 under boycott pressure and, in 2025, said she prays for Palestine every day. She has framed herself as pro-peace rather than pro-Israel, and there is no record of her advocating for Israel, donating to an Israeli cause, or appearing at a pro-Israel event.
What Lana Del Rey has actually said and done
- August 19, 2018: After BDS-aligned activists pressured her to cancel a planned September performance at Israel's Meteor Festival, Del Rey posted a statement defending the booking, saying "performing in Tel Aviv is not a political statement or a commitment to the politics there" and that music should bring people together, according to The Times of Israel.
- August 31, 2018: Less than two weeks later, Del Rey withdrew from the Meteor Festival entirely, tweeting that it was important for her "to perform in both Palestine and Israel and treat all my fans equally" and that she was postponing the show until she could arrange visits to both Israel and Palestinian territories, as reported by The Times of Israel and confirmed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. She never performed in Israel.
- September 2, 2018: JTA reported the cancellation as a win for the BDS movement, and Meteor Festival organizers publicly called her withdrawal a "publicity stunt," per the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
- September 2018: Roughly 15 to 20 other acts, including Of Montreal and Shlohmo, pulled out of the same festival in the wake of Del Rey's exit, widening the boycott's reach, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
- July 7, 2025: Responding to fans on Instagram who asked why she had spoken about Texas flood victims but not Gaza, Del Rey wrote, "And yes of course we pray for Palestine every day. I wish for peace between all nations and am constantly up on all of the news between the Israel Palestine conflict," as reported by Billboard and Daily Sabah.
Context: no Israel advocacy, no Jewish-identity connection
Del Rey's only direct brush with Israel is the 2018 Meteor Festival booking, and it ended in a cancellation, not a concert. She initially resisted the boycott campaign against her, then reversed course and withdrew while framing the decision around treating Israeli and Palestinian fans equally, language that both BDS activists and Israeli outlets read as a win for the boycott effort. There is no record in the public reporting of her visiting Israel, donating to an Israeli cause, or appearing at any pro-Israel event since. Her most recent public comment on the conflict, from July 2025, is explicitly framed around Palestine and a general wish for peace rather than support for Israel. On heritage, Del Rey was raised in a Catholic family; nothing in the available record points to Jewish ancestry or a Jewish-identity connection.
The bottom line
Lana Del Rey does not support Israel in any partisan sense. The public record points the other way: a canceled Israeli festival appearance in 2018 and a 2025 statement that she prays for Palestine daily and wants peace between the two sides. She presents herself as pro-peace and pro-humanity broadly, not as a voice for Israel specifically, and there is no documented advocacy, donation, or event appearance on Israel's behalf to point to.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
