Short answer: Yes, with a complicated history. As of August 2026, Roseanne Barr, who is Jewish, is one of the more vocal celebrity supporters of Israel: she has toured Israel and the West Bank as part of an anti-BDS campaign, called West Bank settlers "pioneers," repeatedly said she wants to make aliyah, and posted in support of Israel after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. Earlier in her career, around 2008-2009, she called Israel a "Nazi state," and in June 2023 she made a widely condemned podcast remark about the Holocaust that she and the podcast's host called sarcasm. Both sides of that record are part of the honest picture.
What Roseanne Barr has actually said and done
- 2008-2009 (during the Gaza conflict): Writing on her blog, Barr called Israel a "Nazi" state, writing of "the destruction of the jews in Israel." The remark drew wide condemnation at the time, reported by the Georgia Straight and later recalled by The Forward.
- April 29, 2018: Speaking at the Jerusalem Post Conference, Barr said she wants to move to Israel and even floated running for prime minister, and thanked President Trump for moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, according to The Jerusalem Post.
- January 25-27, 2019: On a trip to Israel organized by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's World Values Network, Barr toured a West Bank settlement, called Judea and Samaria residents "pioneers," planted a tree, spoke at a "Stop the Boycott" conference in Jerusalem, and compared BDS to Nazi-era boycotts, per JNS.org. In an Israeli TV interview covered by The Times of Israel, she said she believed she had been punished in the U.S. for supporting Trump.
- June 14, 2023 (aired; went viral around June 27-28): On Theo Von's podcast "This Past Weekend," Barr said, "Nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That's the truth," and added a remark that "6 million Jews should die right now because they cause all the problems in the world, but it never happened," along with a comment about Jews running Hollywood like "an organized crime network." The Forward and Haaretz both reported that ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called the comments "reprehensible and irresponsible" regardless of intent, and that YouTube pulled the clip for hate-speech violations. Von said the remark was sarcasm pulled from a longer rant.
- October 7, 2023: Shortly after the Hamas attack, Barr posted on X: "Praying for Israel. Being attacked by Iran after we gave them billions is exactly what we knew would happen and what I feared most when I called out the Obama/Jarrett foreign 'plan.' Make no mistake, this has been underway for years and this is not Biden," according to Newsweek.
- November 29, 2023: Barr criticized President Biden over U.S. aid policy amid the Israel-Hamas war, replying to a Biden tweet with, "They fear nothing more than Jews living. Maybe you should stop giving them billions of dollars? Just a thought," per Newsweek.
The full picture: from "Nazi state" to Knesset guest
Roseanne Barr was born into a Jewish family in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has spoken often about her complicated relationship to Judaism and Israel. Her public position shifted noticeably over the years. Around 2008-2009, during a Gaza conflict, she called Israel a "Nazi state" on her blog, a remark widely condemned at the time. By around 2013 and continuing through the 2010s, she reversed course into one of Hollywood's more outspoken pro-Israel, anti-BDS voices, aligning with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's World Values Network and touring Israel and the West Bank multiple times, including in 2018 and 2019. She has repeatedly said she wants to make aliyah, most notably at the 2018 Jerusalem Post Conference, though as of August 2026 there is no verified record that she has actually relocated to Israel; her comments read as an expressed aspiration rather than a completed move.
Her record also includes real friction. The June 2023 podcast segment drew condemnation from the ADL and other Jewish organizations regardless of the sarcasm defense she and Theo Von offered. Since October 7, 2023, she has posted repeatedly in support of Israel and against Hamas, and against U.S. policy she views as insufficiently supportive of Israel. No verified record was found of Barr making direct financial donations to Israeli causes, joining a formal boycott-refusal pledge, or holding Israeli citizenship or residency status.
The bottom line
Roseanne Barr is a strong, outspoken supporter of Israel today, active in anti-BDS advocacy and pro-Israel media appearances since around 2013. That record sits alongside a Nazi-era comparison of Israel from 2008-2009 and a widely condemned 2023 podcast remark about the Holocaust that she and the podcast's host called sarcasm. Both threads belong in any honest accounting of where she stands, and the more recent and more consistent thread, spanning a decade, is firmly pro-Israel.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
