Does Robert Lewandowski Support Israel?

Shelly Zimmerman Feb 27, 2025 3 min read

Short answer: As of July 2026, Robert Lewandowski has never made a public political statement supporting or criticizing Israel, and there is no reputable record of him visiting Israel. The one concrete, documented Israel connection is commercial, not political: he is one of several elite footballers signed as a featured content instructor for Skillset, an Israeli sports ed-tech startup based in Tel Aviv, which made him a named target of a March 2025 pro-Palestinian "Drop Skillset" boycott campaign. He has not publicly responded to that campaign and has not cut ties. The fair read is that he is neither a public supporter nor a public critic of Israel, but he does have an ongoing commercial association with an Israeli company.

What Robert Lewandowski has actually said and done

Founding: Skillset Media Ltd is founded in Tel Aviv as an e-learning platform pairing young players with elite footballers as instructors, co-founded by Noam Hachmon (CEO), Shabbi Hachmon (COO), and Idan Vered, as reported by Calcalist (CTech).
June 10, 2019: Lewandowski scores a penalty for Poland in a 4-0 European Championship qualifying win over Israel's national team at PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, per ESPN. This is ordinary competition, not a political act and not a visit to Israel.
March 7, 2022: Lewandowski ends his roughly 5 million euro Huawei sponsorship over the firm's reported ties to Russia and wears Ukrainian colors, as covered by France 24 and AFP. It shows he will act publicly on some geopolitical issues, yet he has never taken a comparable public stance on Israel or Gaza.
January 2023: Skillset raises about 1.5 million euros, and Lewandowski is featured, alongside Luka Modric, Bruno Fernandes, Virgil van Dijk, Pedri, and Sergio Aguero, as a featured content instructor on the Israeli platform, according to Calcalist (CTech) and the company listing on Startup Nation Central. This is a documented commercial tie to an Israeli company.
March 5, 2025: A pro-Palestinian and BDS campaign, amplified by the Boycat app and activists, names Lewandowski (with Modric, van Dijk, and others) in a "Drop Skillset" push, urging the players to leave the Israeli startup whose founders it says pose with Israeli soldiers. See the Boycat Times writeup and this activist post on X.
July 2026: No reputable source records any public response from Lewandowski to the boycott campaign, any statement supporting or criticizing Israel, or any visit. He remains associated with Skillset and has not publicly cut ties, per Calcalist (CTech).

Jewish identity, the record, and where the boycott story comes from

Robert Lewandowski is a Polish striker (Barcelona and captain of Poland), a practicing Catholic, and one of the most decorated forwards of his generation. He is not Jewish and has never publicly identified with Jewish or Israeli causes. Search engines surface content-farm pages claiming a "Jewish paternal grandmother," a "Yad Vashem visit," and past "support for Israel," but none of these appear in any reputable outlet, and they should be treated as fabricated SEO filler rather than fact.

The single verifiable Israel link is commercial. Since around 2022 and 2023 he has been a featured content instructor for Skillset (Skillset Media Ltd), an Israeli ed-tech startup headquartered in Tel Aviv and co-founded by Noam Hachmon, Shabbi Hachmon, and Idan Vered, as reported by Calcalist and listed on Startup Nation Central. That relationship is why his name appears in boycott material: the March 2025 "Drop Skillset" campaign, promoted by the Boycat app and pro-Palestinian activists, lists him among the footballers it wants to pressure into leaving the platform. Because Lewandowski has shown he will act on geopolitics when he chooses to (he dropped Huawei over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and wore Ukrainian colors), his continued silence on Israel and Gaza reads as a genuine silence rather than an oversight.

The bottom line

Robert Lewandowski is not a public supporter of Israel and not a public critic. He has made no statements and no visits, but he does have a real, ongoing commercial association with an Israeli company (Skillset), which made him a named target of a 2025 BDS boycott campaign that he has neither endorsed nor obeyed. The most accurate way to describe him is commercially tied to Israel through Skillset, not an advocate on either side.

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