Does Nicole Kidman Support Israel?

Tal Feldman Feb 27, 2025 3 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, the one clear pro-Israel act on Nicole Kidman's public record is old: in August 2006 she was among about 85 Hollywood figures who signed a full-page newspaper ad condemning Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist organizations and expressing pain over civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon. Since then she has made no known public statement supporting or criticizing Israel, including through the post-October 7 Gaza war, and pro-Palestinian activists now list her among celebrities they fault for silence. She is not Jewish (she was raised Roman Catholic) and there is no record of her visiting Israel.

What Nicole Kidman has actually said and done

January 2006: Kidman was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, the United Nations women's fund now known as UN Women, with a focus on ending violence against women, as reported by UN News. This is a UN role, not a UNICEF post, and it has nothing to do with Israel.
August 17, 2006: Kidman signed a full-page advertisement, published in the Los Angeles Times and carried in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, stating that the signatories were "pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas" and calling to "support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs." Co-signers included Bruce Willis, Michael Douglas, Sylvester Stallone, and directors Ridley and Tony Scott. The ad is documented by Wikinews and by J. The Jewish News of Northern California.
September 2006: J. The Jewish News of Northern California reported that the ad drew about 85 Hollywood signatories and that the project was initiated by Ehud Danoch, Israel's consul general in Los Angeles, with that coverage also noting that media magnate Rupert Murdoch helped pay for it.
September 2015: Kidman starred as the Jewish scientist Rosalind Franklin in the London stage play "Photograph 51," which ran September to November 2015, as noted by The Times of Israel. This is her most direct link to Jewish subject matter, and it is a professional acting role, not a political statement about Israel.
Through 2026: Across the war that followed the October 7 attacks, there is no public statement from Kidman on Israel or Gaza on record. Israeli outlet Ynetnews and a pro-Palestinian activist tracker, Reverse Canary Mission, both list her among celebrities and UN goodwill ambassadors they accuse of staying silent, citing her 2006 ad as past "complicity."

Not Jewish, and a thin record on Israel

Nicole Kidman is not Jewish. She was born in Honolulu in 1967 to Australian parents and raised Roman Catholic in Sydney, and claims of Jewish ancestry are not supported by reliable sources. Her clearest tie to Jewish subject matter is that acting role, playing Rosalind Franklin in "Photograph 51" in 2015, as The Times of Israel has noted. On Israel specifically, the record is thin and dated. The single concrete act is the August 2006 Hollywood ad, which condemned Hezbollah and Hamas and framed Israel as a democracy under terrorist attack. It was organized around Israel's Los Angeles consul general and drew A-list signatures. Since 2006 there is no traceable public statement from Kidman for or against Israel, which is why present-day activist boycott lists cite her "silence" rather than any new remark.

The bottom line

On the documented record, Nicole Kidman made one clearly pro-Israel gesture in 2006, signing a Hollywood ad that condemned Hezbollah and Hamas, and she has said nothing public about Israel since, including during the current war in Gaza. She is not Jewish and has no known personal ties to Israel (no visit is documented, though 2006 coverage mentioned an invitation to visit). So the fair answer is this: she leaned pro-Israel once, twenty years ago, and has been publicly silent ever since. Anyone claiming she is an active current supporter, or an active opponent, is reading more into the record than exists.

Wear your own answer

Kidman's one clear pro-Israel moment was simple: she put her name on a public statement. You do not need a full-page newspaper ad to do the same thing. If you want to show where you stand plainly, and keep showing it long after a news cycle moves on, our I Stand With Israel collection is built for exactly that, with shirts, hats, and bracelets that say it without a caption. Everything ships from a team that loves Israel and is not shy about saying so.

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