Lamenting Los Angeles wildfires, Southern California native Jamie Lee Curtis compares damage to Palisades neighborhood to war in the Gaza Strip, drawing criticism on social media.

By World Israel News Staff

A Hollywood A-lister came under fire last week, after she compared fire-ravaged neighborhoods in Los Angeles to the war-torn Gaza Strip.

Jamie Lee Curtis, the 66-year-old actress and former “scream queen” who starred in the Halloween film series and A Fish Called Wanda, spoke out Thursday at an event marking the debut of her latest film, The Last Showgirl.

During a question and answer session, Curtis commented on the four ongoing wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area, including the massive Pacific Palisades fire.

“I’m born and raised in the City of Angels,” Curtis said, “and the entire City of Angels is on fire everywhere. The entire city. The Pacific Palisades is gone.”

“My house tonight is still there, but I live in a different canyon,” Curtis continued, before comparing the damage in Los Angeles to the Gaza war.

“But the entire Pacific Palisades looks like, unfortunately, Gaza or one of these war-torn countries where awful things have happened. And there are now fires breaking out everywhere. It feels totally bizarre to be talking about a movie. But it is a piece of art, and art will save us – no matter what.”

Social media users quicky pounced on Curtis’ comments, with some denouncing the comparison as insensitive, while others blasted Curtis over her support for Israel after the October 7th invasion.

“This is a completely atrocious comparison considering this is the same woman who advocated for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” wrote one user.

Another, under the handle @lizziesjuul, wrote: “i live in california and you would never find me comparing these fires to gaza…both tragedies but not comparable AT ALL.”

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Code Pink: ‘When US taxes go to burning people alive in Gaza, we can’t be surprised when those fires come home.’

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

Anti-Israel groups took to social media to blame Israel for Los Angeles wildfires.

The fires have destroyed hundreds of buildings and prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands of California residents.

On Instagram, Code Pink created a tenuous connection between the fires and Israel’s war in Gaza.

Code Pink wrote, “When US taxes go to burning people alive in Gaza, we can’t be surprised when those fires come home.”

The Anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace wrote, “Instead of putting resources toward making our country livable, our government is putting billions toward Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.”

Fatima Mohammed, head of anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime posted, “The flames of Gaza will not stop there.”

“Dropping hundreds of thousands of bombs on Gaza, turning it into a blazing inferno, has consequences,” she said. “There are climate consequences that will find us all.”

Commentator Mehdi Hasan asserted that aid to Israel was interfering with funding LA’s fire department.

However, Hasan failed to recognize that Israeli military aid is federal and funding for the fire department is from the City of Los Angeles.

Israel defenders were vigorous in their criticism of the accusations from anti-Israel groups.

New York Congressman Ritchie Torres wrote on X, “The nature of Antisemitism is to scapegoat the Jewish People and the Jewish State for everything wrong in the world — no matter how tenuous the causal connection,” he wrote on X.

“The modus operandi of Antisemitism is slanderous scapegoating: when in doubt, blame the Jews,” he added.

Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the Anti-Defamation League, posted on X, “Code Pink’s rabid anti-Zionism and insatiable animosity toward Israel drives them to make an absurd, incomprehensible claim.”

He added, “What does it say about a group that will find a way to use any tragedy to foster incitement and antisemitism?”

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