Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey, whose career crumbled after numerous sexual misconduct allegations began to emerge in 2017, visited the Israel-Gaza border this weekend with British pro-Israel journalist Douglas Murray, according to Israeli newspapers Haaretz and Ynet News.
The “House of Cards” star reportedly surprised Ayala Levinstein, a member of a combat intelligence unit in the Israeli Defense Forces and the daughter of a friend, touring areas devastated by the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, including the Nova Music Festival site and Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
“Welcome to Israel @KevinSpacey!” Libby Alon, chief international news editor for right-wing outlet Now14Israel, wrote Sunday on X, formerly Twitter, sharing a photo of her and Spacey at the festival grounds. “Thank you for your support.”
The visit comes a little over a year into Israel’s brutal military campaign in Gaza that has left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced amid a burgeoning famine, schools and hospitals bombed to rubble and surgeons conducting amputations without anesthesia.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 44,056 Palestinians have been killed since Oct. 7, 2023.
Spacey, who reportedly last visited Israel in 2019 to pay his respects after the death of his manager’s rabbi brother-in-law, fell from grace in 2017 when the first of numerous 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 found not liable by a New York jury in 2022, and last year was acquitted in London of nine charges of sexual assault involving four theater actors. Several other sexual misconduct allegations against Spacey emerged earlier this year in a documentary series.
In June, the actor admitted to flying on a private jet with Jeffrey Epstein, former President Bill Clinton and several “young girls” during what he said was an “eight-day humanitarian trip” to Africa in 2002 to promote AIDS prevention and awareness.
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Murray, a staunch critic of Islam and liberal immigration policies in Europe, has visited Israel numerous times this year and and called the recent International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes against humanity “exceptionally dangerous.”
He recently published a New York Post op-ed celebrating President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in the recent U.S. election, quoting songwriter Ira Gershwin in his conclusion: “Who’s got the last laugh now?”
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