Jon Voight disagrees with Angelina Jolie's decision to support Palestinian refugees amid Israel's assault on Gaza. In an interview with diverse The 85-year-old on Tuesday criticised his daughter, who is estranged from him because she condemns the killing of innocent people in Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
“She was exposed to propaganda, and she was influenced by anti-Semitic people,” he told the newspaper. “Angie has connections to the United Nations, and she enjoyed speaking on behalf of refugees. But these people are not refugees.”
Voight's claim comes days after the U.N.'s top court declared Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for it to end, the Associated Press reported. The court called Israel's occupation an “abuse of its status.”
In the interview, Voight denied Jolie's knowledge of world affairs, saying, diverse“Angie, I think she wasn’t available to that information because people in Hollywood don’t share that kind of stuff… They’re completely wrong. They have no idea what’s going on. It’s a bubble.”
Jolie has worked with UNHCR for 20 years, focusing her efforts on supporting forcibly displaced people around the world. She previously served as a Special Envoy for UNHCR.
when diverse The reporter said it was hard to believe that Jolie wouldn't have access to “correct information,” and that they were both Hollywood, and Voight's face became “red and beads of sweat appeared on it.”[ed] “On his forehead.”
“I love my daughter. I don’t want to fight with her,” he told the reporter. “But the truth is I think she was influenced by the UN from the beginning, it was bad about human rights. They call it human rights, but it’s just an attack on Israel.”
“She doesn't know what the real risks are and what the real story is because she is familiar with the UN,” he added.
In response to Voight's comments, diverse The reporter quoted a source close to Jolie as telling the newspaper that the actress “does not talk about [her father] “Publicly” but she wishes him “well”.
Since Hamas launched an attack on Israel on October 7, more than 38,295 Palestinians have been killed and more than 88,200 others injured amid Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to United Nations data.
In late October, Jolie published a strongly worded statement condemning Hamas’s attacks on Israel and the killing of “innocent lives” in Gaza by the Israeli military. “What happened in Israel was an act of terror,” she wrote at the time. “But that does not justify the loss of innocent lives by bombing civilians in Gaza who have nowhere to go, no access to food or water, no possibility of evacuation, and not even the basic human right to cross a border in search of refuge.”
Voight's attack on his daughter comes a decade after he wrote a letter in which he claimed to be “distressed” that Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and other celebrities were supporting Palestine after an attack by Israel in 2014. “Hold your heads low in shame,” Voight wrote at the time. “You should all show deep remorse for what you have done and ask forgiveness from the suffering people of Israel.”
