Short answer: As of August 2026, yes, in the sense that matters most. Sacha Baron Cohen is alive and has been a consistent, repeat voice against antisemitism and in solidarity with Jews since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, signing hostage-related letters, confronting TikTok executives over antisemitic content, and publicly mourning Jewish victims of terror attacks from Manchester to Sydney, most recently in December 2025. He has stayed almost entirely silent on Israeli government policy and the conduct of the Gaza war itself, so he is best described as a defender of Jewish safety and identity, not as a spokesman for Israeli government policy.
What Sacha Baron Cohen has actually said and done
October 2023: Cohen was among dozens of Hollywood figures, alongside Gal Gadot, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer and others, who signed a letter to President Biden commending his handling of the Hamas hostage crisis and the hostage releases following the October 7 attack, according to Deadline.
November 15, 2023: On a roughly 90-minute private video call with more than 30 TikTok executives, arranged after Jewish creators raised concerns about antisemitic content on the platform, Cohen told the company, "What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis," and told a TikTok operations executive he should feel ashamed. The Times of Israel covered the call, which The New York Times first reported after obtaining a recording, with additional detail from The Hollywood Reporter.
October 2, 2025: After an Islamist terrorist attacked worshippers at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, killing Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, Cohen posted publicly that the murder of Jews "is not a one-off. It's part of the biggest surge in hatred of Jews since the Nazis. No one should have to risk their lives to pray," a statement recirculated by the Daily Mail and reposted by StandWithUs.
December 14, 2025: A father-son pair carried out an Islamic State-inspired mass shooting at a Hanukkah gathering of about 1,000 people on Bondi Beach in Sydney, killing 15 people and injuring 41, as documented by NPR and summarized on Wikipedia.
December 14-15, 2025: Cohen, whose children are half-Australian and who lived in Sydney and Perth for several years, posted an image from the Bondi Beach scene with the message: "Hanukkah, 2025, Bondi Beach. It could be your family, your child. No one should die because of their faith. May their memory be a blessing, and a light toward tolerance and peace," reported by The Jewish Chronicle.
Ongoing: Cohen has not made public statements on Israeli government policy, settlements, or the conduct of the Gaza war. His documented public activism in this period stays focused on antisemitism on platforms and mourning attacks on Jews, not on war-policy commentary, per the same Times of Israel reporting.
Where this comes from
Sacha Baron Cohen was raised in a devout Orthodox Jewish family in northwest London. His mother, a photographer, was born in British Mandatory Palestine, what is now Israel. He spent a gap year on Kibbutz Rosh HaNikra through the Habonim Dror youth movement and is fluent in Hebrew. He has said publicly, "I am proud of my Jewish identity and there are certain things I do and the customs I keep," describing efforts by his family to keep kosher, observe Shabbat when possible, attend synagogue on certain occasions, and celebrate Jewish holidays. Even his pre-fame comic work, before Ali G, included a Hasidic-dressed character, an early sign of how central Jewish identity has been to his comedy.
None of this amounts to public commentary on Israeli government policy. Across the period covered here, Cohen's documented activism is entirely about combating antisemitism, on social platforms and after terror attacks, not about defending or criticizing any specific Israeli policy, military action, or ceasefire terms. He has also drawn sustained criticism from pro-Palestinian commentators who frame his stance as one-sided, criticism that itself reflects how widely he is perceived as pro-Israel and pro-Jewish in the public record, even though he has not personally litigated Gaza war policy.
The bottom line
Sacha Baron Cohen supports Israel in the identity and solidarity sense that most people mean when they ask this question. He is a proud, practicing, publicly Jewish man with real roots in Israel, a kibbutz year, Hebrew fluency, and family born there, who has repeatedly and recently, through December 2025, stood up against antisemitism and mourned Jewish victims of terror, twice reaching for explicit "since the Nazis" language. He has not, however, become a voice on Israeli government policy or the Gaza war itself, so he is better described as a committed defender of Jewish safety and identity than as a political advocate for Israeli state policy.
Wear the solidarity he keeps showing up for
Cohen's public moments, from the TikTok call to his words after Manchester and Bondi Beach, are really about one thing: standing with Jews when it counts. If that resonates, our I Stand With Israel collection lets you carry that same message every day.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
