Wednesday, January 07, 2026
Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely the responsibility of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein.
Back in November 2023 —
only weeks after October 7 — Angelina Jolie accused Israel of bombing “a
trapped population who have nowhere to flee.” She wrote: “Gaza has been an
open-air prison for nearly two decades.”
Fast forward to January
2026. Jolie visits the Egyptian
side of the Rafah crossing into Gaza, ostensibly to check on injured Gazans
and the flow of aid. And there she is: standing on the border with Gaza — in
Egypt.
Did Jolie not know where she was standing?
Because there are two
land borders with Gaza. One is with Israel. The other, with Egypt. If Gazans
have “nowhere to flee,” it’s because of Egypt. Because Egypt
has a border too — and refused to open it to the fleeing Gazan masses, most
of whom are their cousins.
But Jolie does
know where she is standing. She is standing on the border she ignored. She
would have been well aware of it all along, because she served as a Special Envoy for
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Surely she had at least a nodding
acquaintance with borders and crossings.
Now, it is no longer possible for her to claim ignorance of this second border. Her inability to look at a map. Because she has stood at Rafah, on the Egyptian side of the border. Jolie should apologize for demonizing Israel. That she has failed
to do so, proves what we already know: Angelina Jolie is an antisemite. She
hates Jews.
There is no other
explanation — she hates us too much to even contemplate an apology to the
Israeli people, even at the expense of her integrity.
And still, there is no
apology on her lips. Not a peep. No: “I’m sorry. I know it wasn’t Israel
trapping the people of Gaza. That Egypt could have let the fleeing Gazan
refugees in and given them safe harbor, but refused. Israel deserves my humblest apologies.”
But of course, there will
be no such apology. Humble or otherwise. There never is.
Two borders, one ignored.
Because acknowledging the other would make Egypt the guilty party, the bad guy. And they want the bad guy to be Israel. They want to make Israel the bad guy for not letting them in after October 7— they want to blame the Jews, and increase hatred against them. Then come the protests that turn into riots, the riots that morph into bodily assault, and finally spiral into murder. A Jewish museum affords that opportunity. As does the home of a Jewish governor and his family, set on fire at night while they were asleep.
It's all the same. Two borders, one ignored — and finally erased.
Even as one stands right
there on the border with Gaza. Even as the Angelina Jolies of the world lose
their integrity, one by one:
Two borders, one ignored.
It's a lie that betrays a deep
and evil hatred of Jews.
The people who will never
disappear.
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Please note that Jolie's father, Jon Voight, has been a staunch friend to Israel and the Jewish people. From Arutz 7:
Jolie’s criticism of Israel was met with a sharp response from her father, actor Jon Voight, who said his daughter “has no understanding of God's honor, God's truths" and added, “The Israeli army must protect thy soil, thy people. This is war. It's not going to be what the left thinks. It can't be ‘civil’ now. Israel was attacked by inhuman terror on innocent babies, mothers, fathers, [and] grandparents."
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