Short answer: As of July 2026, Pedro Pascal has not expressed public support for Israel and has no documented visits, donations, or personal ties to the country. He is Chilean-American with a Catholic-raised, non-Jewish family background (his parents fled Chile's Pinochet dictatorship). Since December 2023 he has repeatedly called for a Gaza ceasefire, supported Doctors Without Borders' humanitarian work, and in January 2026 co-hosted a benefit concert with Bella Hadid that raised roughly $5.5 million for Palestinian and Sudanese relief. He also signed a May 2025 Cannes open letter, alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Juliette Binoche, that used the word "genocide" to describe events in Gaza and condemned the Israeli military's killing of Gaza journalist Fatima Hassouna. Separately, despite widespread initial reports later corrected by NPR, he did not sign a different September 2025 Hollywood open letter pledging to boycott Israeli film institutions.
What Pedro Pascal has actually said and done
- December 2023: Pascal posted an Instagram photo holding a "Ceasefire Now" sign bearing the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) logo, calling for a Gaza ceasefire and support for MSF's medical aid work, as The New Arab reported.
- May 16, 2025: Pascal signed a Cannes Film Festival open letter, alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Juliette Binoche, Riz Ahmed, Guillermo del Toro, and hundreds of other film-industry figures, condemning the industry's "silence" on what the letter called "genocide" in Gaza and specifically denouncing the Israeli military's killing of Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who died in an airstrike on her family's home days after her documentary was selected for a Cannes sidebar, as the Times of Israel and Euronews reported.
- September 9, 2025: Pascal was widely, but incorrectly, reported to have signed a separate "Film Workers for Palestine" open letter, in which Hollywood figures pledged not to work with Israeli film institutions. The claim appeared in an initial NPR story and syndicated wire copy, and was repeated by outlets including Ynetnews.
- Late September 2025: NPR issued a formal correction on this specific letter, stating plainly: "An earlier version of this story said incorrectly that Selena Gomez and Pedro Pascal signed an open letter pledging not to work with the Israeli film industry." Pascal did not sign it, according to the corrected NPR report.
- 2025: In a press interview covered by Ynetnews, Pascal urged humanitarian aid for women and children in Gaza and criticized what he called Hollywood's relative silence on the conflict.
- January 10, 2026: Pascal co-hosted the "Artists for Aid" benefit concert in Los Angeles with model Bella Hadid. The event, featuring Shawn Mendes, Daniel Caesar and others, raised roughly $5.4 to $5.5 million for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund and the Sudanese American Physicians Association, according to Dunya News and Good Good Good.
His background and the industry-Israel divide
Pedro Pascal was born José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal in Santiago, Chile. His public family story centers on his parents' 1975 flight from Chile's Pinochet dictatorship, and his upbringing is Catholic-raised rather than Jewish. There is no reporting of a Pascal visit to Israel, a meeting with Israeli officials, an Israeli brand partnership, or Jewish family heritage, according to background compiled on Wikipedia and cross-checked against no contrary reporting.
The record involves two separate 2025 open letters, and it is worth being precise about which one Pascal actually signed. In May 2025, ahead of the Cannes Film Festival, he signed the letter condemning the industry's "silence" on Gaza, using the word "genocide" and naming Israel's killing of journalist Fatima Hassouna. That is a specific, Israel-critical statement carrying his signature. Months later, in September 2025, a different letter asked signatories to pledge not to work with Israeli film institutions specifically; multiple outlets initially reported Pascal as a signatory to that one too, but NPR's on-record correction confirmed he had not signed it, unlike Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. That correction has not circulated nearly as widely as the original, incorrect claim, so some secondary sources and social posts still repeat the inaccurate version. Taken together, Pascal has put his name to strong language about Gaza and about a specific Israeli military strike, while stopping short of the narrower institutional-boycott pledge.
The bottom line
Pedro Pascal does not support Israel in any public, documented way. He has no Israel visits, donations, or Jewish-identity ties, and his public activity since 2023, including ceasefire calls, MSF support, the May 2025 Cannes letter, and the Artists for Aid concert, consistently favors Palestinian humanitarian causes and includes direct criticism of Israeli military conduct. The one distinction worth preserving is narrow: he signed the May 2025 letter using the word "genocide," but according to NPR's correction he did not sign the separate September 2025 pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions specifically. That is a meaningful factual difference from actors who signed both, but it does not make him a moderate voice on Israel; it makes him a consistent Gaza-focused critic who drew one line at an institutional boycott.
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Last updated July 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
