Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, whose profession crumbled after quite a few sexual misconduct allegations started to emerge in 2017, visited the Israel-Gaza border this weekend with British pro-Israel journalist Douglas Murray, in response to Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Ynet Information.
The “House of Cards” star reportedly stunned Ayala Levinstein, a member of a fight intelligence unit within the Israeli Protection Forces and the daughter of a good friend, touring areas devastated by the Hamas assault on Oct. 7, 2023, together with the Nova Music Competition website and Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
“Welcome to Israel @KevinSpacey!” Libby Alon, chief worldwide information editor for right-wing outlet Now14Israel, wrote Sunday on X, previously Twitter, sharing a photograph of her and Spacey on the pageant grounds. “Thank you for your support.”
The go to comes slightly over a yr into Israel’s brutal army marketing campaign in Gaza that has left a whole lot of hundreds of Palestinians displaced amid a burgeoning famine, colleges and hospitals bombed to rubble and surgeons conducting amputations with out anesthesia.
In response to the Gaza Health Ministry, at the very least 44,056 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023.
Spacey, who reportedly final visited Israel in 2019 to pay his respects after the demise of his supervisor’s rabbi brother-in-law, fell from grace in 2017 when the primary of quite a few sexual misconduct allegations emerged — and he was accused of molesting a then-14-year-old actor in 1986.
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The Oscar winner was discovered not liable by a New York jury in 2022, and final yr was acquitted in London of 9 fees of sexual assault involving 4 theater actors. A number of different sexual misconduct allegations in opposition to Spacey emerged earlier this yr in a documentary collection.
In June, the actor admitted to flying on a personal jet with Jeffrey Epstein, former President Invoice Clinton and several other “young girls” throughout what he stated was an “eight-day humanitarian trip” to Africa in 2002 to advertise AIDS prevention and consciousness.
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Murray, a staunch critic of Islam and liberal immigration insurance policies in Europe, has visited Israel quite a few instances this yr and and known as the current Worldwide Felony Court docket arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes in opposition to humanity “exceptionally dangerous.”
He lately printed a New York Publish op-ed celebrating President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris within the current U.S. election, quoting songwriter Ira Gershwin in his conclusion: “Who’s got the last laugh now?”
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