Short answer: Seth Meyers has never issued a single blanket "I support Israel" statement, but his public record leans sympathetic on the core points. He condemned the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on air, signed a Hollywood open letter thanking President Biden for backing Israel and calling for the hostages' release, and has repeatedly said Hamas needed to free the hostages. He has also been consistently critical of the humanitarian toll in Gaza and of U.S. policy responses to it. As of August 2026, the most accurate description is a mainstream liberal-Democrat position: sympathetic to Israel and the hostages, paired with open criticism of Gaza's suffering, rather than a hardline stance on either side.
What Seth Meyers has actually said and done
October 10, 2023: Three days after the Hamas attack, Meyers used his Late Night monologue to call it "monstrous and horrific acts of violence." He added that he would "not pretend to have any answers as to how to respond to a crisis like this," and warned that "we are most at risk of losing our own humanity when we are justifiably blind with rage and sadness," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
October 23, 2023: Meyers was one of several hundred Hollywood figures, alongside Gal Gadot, Chris Rock, and Jerry Seinfeld, who signed an open letter to President Biden. The letter thanked Biden for his support of Israel during the war and called for the release of all hostages held by Hamas, as reported by TheWrap and independently confirmed by UPI.
February 26, 2024: President Biden made a surprise appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. In the interview, which aired that night, Biden discussed the Israel-Hamas war and hostage negotiations while Meyers pressed him on calls for a ceasefire, per NBC News.
May 2024: Amid nationwide college protests over Gaza, Meyers criticized the NYPD's forceful response to a small group of protesters at Columbia University, joking about city tax dollars going toward "using drones to round up co-eds" instead of other services. He also argued that "we should spend less time arguing about college kids and more time focusing on what the protests are about," pointing attention to Gaza, as The Guardian reported on May 4, 2024. The segment did not address campus antisemitism, and the policing quotes come from a direct-quote report by NewsBusters.
July 29, 2025: Meyers broke from the usual comedic format of his "A Closer Look" segment to say "we are appalled by the unspeakable horrors currently unfolding in Gaza." He criticized the Trump administration's handling of the humanitarian crisis and said "we need a ceasefire and to free the hostages," as covered by LateNighter.
April 8, 2018 (background): Meyers and his wife, human-rights attorney Alexi Ashe, who is Jewish, named their newborn son Axel Strahl Meyers. Strahl is the surname of Ashe's grandparents, both Holocaust survivors who met at an Austrian hospital the day after liberation from a concentration camp, per The Times of Israel.
The family connection and the fuller picture
Meyers is not Jewish himself, but his wife is, and their children are grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, a family history Meyers has referenced publicly. He hosts Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, where the recurring "A Closer Look" segment has returned to the Israel-Hamas war repeatedly since October 7, 2023. Across that record, two threads hold steady: unambiguous condemnation of the Hamas attack combined with support for the hostages' release, and sustained criticism of the humanitarian situation in Gaza and of U.S. policy toward it. His comments on the 2024 campus protests were aimed at police tactics rather than at Israel's actions or campus antisemitism directly, a distinction that drew criticism from some conservative commentary outlets. There is no record of Meyers visiting Israel, donating to Israel-specific causes, or joining a boycott of Israel, and he has not made one comprehensive personal statement declaring support for or opposition to Israel as a state.
The bottom line
Seth Meyers has not declared blanket support for or opposition to Israel. What the verifiable record shows is that he condemned the October 7 attack, signed a letter backing Israel's ally relationship with the United States while demanding the hostages' release, and has a Jewish family by marriage with a Holocaust-survivor lineage, while also being an open critic of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Taken together, that reads as sympathetic to Israel and the hostages without being a pro-Israel advocate in the activist sense.
Wear where you stand
Whatever a given late-night host says on any given night, plenty of people want something simpler: a clear, wearable way to say they stand with Israel and its hostages, past and present. Our I Stand With Israel bracelet does exactly that, a small daily signal of where you stand, no monologue required.
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Last updated August 2026. We update these profiles as the record changes.
