Short answer: Yes. Sarah Palin has a long, well-documented record of pro-Israel statements and actions dating back to 2008, including a personal visit to Israel in March 2011 where she met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She has no confirmed public statements specifically about Israel from 2023 through mid-2026 in reputable press coverage, but nothing in the record contradicts her earlier pro-Israel positions. As of August 2026, this remains her documented position.
What Sarah Palin has actually said and done
September 3, 2008: Days after John McCain announced her as his running mate, Palin met with AIPAC leadership for 45 minutes near Minneapolis. AIPAC's spokesman said she expressed her "deep, personal and lifelong commitment to the safety and well-being of Israel" and pledged to expand the U.S.-Israel strategic partnership, according to the Jewish Journal.
October 2, 2008: In the vice-presidential debate, Palin called Israel "our strongest and best ally in the Middle East," backed a two-state solution, and said she supported moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, per a sourced compilation on Wikipedia.
November 18, 2009: In an ABC interview with Barbara Walters promoting her memoir, Palin said "the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon" and that the Obama administration had no right to tell Israel settlements could not expand, a position that put her at odds with decades of U.S. policy under both parties. This was reported by the Christian Science Monitor and corroborated in the Wikipedia compilation of her positions.
March 20, 2011: Palin made her first visit to Israel, touring Old City Jerusalem holy sites during Purim. Her party turned around short of the Israeli checkpoint outside Bethlehem the following day, having never applied for the West Bank entry permit, as reported by Salon and The Forward. The tour itself was covered by PRX/The World.
March 21, 2011: During the same trip, Palin dined with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem to "discuss the key issues facing his country, our ally Israel," as reported by NBC News and confirmed by PRX/The World.
May 2011: Palin publicly criticized President Obama's proposal that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations use pre-1967 lines as a starting point, opposing the plan for Palestinian statehood on those terms, per the Wikipedia compilation.
April 22, 2025: Palin lost her defamation retrial against the New York Times in Manhattan federal court, a case unrelated to Israel but noted here because it confirms she remains a living, active public figure through 2025, as covered by the Washington Post.
The context behind the record
Sarah Palin's public record on Israel spans nearly two decades and is consistent: strongly pro-Israel rhetoric, alignment with AIPAC's messaging, a personal visit that included a sit-down with Netanyahu, and support for settlement expansion that put her to the right of both major parties' standard U.S. policy at the time. All of the verifiable record comes from her 2008 to 2011 period of national political prominence, spanning the vice-presidential campaign and the run-up to a possible 2012 presidential bid.
We found no reputable news coverage from outlets like AP, Reuters, Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post, or JTA documenting Palin making public statements specifically about Israel during the October 7, 2023 attack, the subsequent war, the 2025 ceasefire, or the hostage releases that concluded with the final hostage's remains returning home in January 2026. She has remained publicly active during this window, including a Cameo career and the 2025 New York Times defamation retrial, but Israel has not been a documented focus of her recent public statements. This is an absence-of-coverage finding, not evidence of a changed position. Nothing in the record suggests she has softened or reversed her earlier pro-Israel stance.
We also found no evidence of any Israel-related charitable donations by Palin, no record of her participating in or refusing a boycott related to Israel, and no documented Jewish-identity connection. She is not Jewish and has not publicly claimed Jewish heritage or personal ties to Israel beyond the political and diplomatic relationships described above.
The bottom line
Sarah Palin supports Israel, based on a strong and consistent public record from 2008 to 2011: the AIPAC outreach, the vice-presidential debate, the Netanyahu meeting in Jerusalem, and her comments backing settlement expansion. Her most recent visible statements specifically on Israel date to that period rather than the current war or ceasefire era, but the historical record is well-documented across multiple reputable outlets.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
