The Globe and Mail reports that actor Jon Voight is accusing actress Jane Fonda of “aiding and abetting those who seek the destruction of Israel.”
Fonda, Danny Glover and Wallace Shawn are among the more than 50 signatories of an online letter protesting the Toronto International Film Festival’s spotlight on Tel Aviv. The letter accuses TIFF organizers of being part of an Israeli propaganda campaign.
In his own letter, released yesterday, Voight said “Jane Fonda is backing the wrong people again.’
Voight, 70, is a former liberal who once made public appearances with Fonda, 71, and Leonard Bernstein in support of the Unidad Popular group in Chile. Recently he renounced his former activism as the result of “Marxist propaganda.”
The Globe says Voight states, “people like Jane Fonda and all the names on that letter are assisting the Palestinian propagandists against the State of Israel. … Jane Fonda’s whole idea of the ‘poor Palestinians,’ and ‘look how many Palestinians the Israelis killed in Gaza,’ is misconstrued. Does she not remember what actually took place in Gaza? Did Israel not give the Palestinians of Gaza the hope that there could be peace? In response, did Hamas not launch rockets from Gaza into Israel, killing many innocent people?
“This seems to me to be another one of Jane Fonda’s misplaced ‘patriotic’ duties toward the wrong people. I was in Israel. I saw the rockets coming down on Sderot, and visited many families who lost their loved ones. How long can a democratic country keep from defending itself?”
“Time and again, [Israel] offered the Palestinians land,” his letter says. “They always refused. They don’t want a piece of the pie, they want the whole pie. They will not be happy until they see Israel in the sea.”
Voight and Fonda co-starred in the 1978 anti-Vietnam war movie ‘Coming Home.’





