Plus family drama.
Jon Voight criticizes his daughter Angelina Jolie debtOr support Palestine. In the midst of The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.
The 85-year-old actor called Jolie, 49, “ignorant” and “naive.” variety It was published on Tuesday.
“She has been subjected to propaganda,” Voight said. “She has been influenced by anti-Semites. Angie has ties to the United Nations and enjoys speaking out for refugees, but these people are not refugees.”
Jolie, a former special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has been a vocal critic of Israel’s bombing of Gaza. Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7.
“What happened in Israel was an act of terrorism,” Jolie said in an October 2023 statement. The Hollywood Reporter“But that does not justify the innocent lives lost while bombing civilians in Gaza who have nowhere to go, no access to food or water, no possibility of evacuation and no basic human right to seek refuge across the border.”
The “Maleficent” star’s father fired back, saying, “My daughter is under UN supervision and doesn’t know what the real danger is or what the real story is.”
Voight criticized “naive” activists who claim there are more than five million Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the West Bank.
“These are gullible people who never come out of their shell,” he said, noting that Jolie was one of those “naive gullible people.”
Voight explained that talking to his daughter about their differences is “difficult.”
“She doesn’t really want to share this kind of stuff because she has other ideas about it,” he said.
The “Pride and Glory” star continued, “I love my daughter. I don’t want to fight with her. But the fact is, I think she’s been affected by the UN. It’s been a terrible violation of human rights since the beginning. They call it human rights, but it’s just anti-Israel attacks.”
After his rant about Jolie, Voight made it clear that his daughter is very important to him.
“I love my daughter. That’s the most important thing. When Angie is happy, I’m happy,” he said, fighting back tears. “When she’s sad, I’m sad. When she’s down, I’m down.”
A source close to Jolie told Variety, “Angelina wishes him the best but won’t speak about him publicly.”
The Washington Post has reached out to Jolie’s representatives for comment.
Jolie and Voight have had a lot of issues over the years.
The “Lara Croft” actress was reportedly upset that her father had cheated on her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, during their marriage. The couple divorced in 1980, when Jolie was five years old.
Beltran died in 2007 at the age of 56.
Voight Apparently he didn’t know Jolie and Brad Pitt’s wedding in 2014.
Last year, the “Runaway Train” actor accused Jolie of defending Palestinians but not Israelis.
“I’m very disappointed that my daughter, like so many others, doesn’t understand God’s honor and God’s truth,” he said. Instagram Videos.
“This is the destruction of God’s land, the Holy Land, the history of the Jewish land. This is justice against God’s children in the Holy Land,” Voight added.
Jolie has never publicly responded to her father’s comments.
