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Video shows Culver City police chase after driver hits 8 pedestrians


A horrifying new video shows the suspect in the Culver City vehicular rampage plowing into a teenager as he fled from the cops.

The police footage shows a white car speeding away from cops until veering into a 19-year-old crossing the street.

Juan Luis Estrada, 45, of Perris allegedly struck eight pedestrians as he fled officers on Tuesday, before he crashed in a McDonald’s drive-thru and cops nabbed him.


A white car swerving to hit pedestrians in the street.
A horrifying new video shows the suspect in the Culver City vehicular rampage plowing into a teenager as he fled from the cops. Culver City Police

Police vehicle involved in a crash near a McDonald's sign during a pursuit in Culver City.
Juan Luis Estrada, 45, of Perris allegedly struck eight pedestrians as he fled officers on Tuesday, before he crashed in a McDonald’s drive-thru and cops nabbed him. KTLA

He allegedly injured an officer at the end of the chase, but the cop is in stable condition, officials say.

Police detailed the suspect hit one person following a report of a hit-and-run crash around 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

Cops were able to find the man after he tried to fill up at a gas station and hit three other pedestrians. As police chased the man, he collided with four other pedestrians.

Victims from the driving rampage range from aged 15 to 70.

It’s unclear why the man hit the pedestrians, and it’s unclear if his actions were intentional. Culver City police say the man put the community in danger with his actions.

“Recognizing the severity of this suspect’s actions and the recklessness and the danger he was putting our community in – that was why our officers continued to engage in pursuing him….

“He clearly had no regard for human life on the road,”  Jennifer Atenza, public information officer for the Culver City Police Department, told ABC 7.

Estrada has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder, felony hit-and-run, and a litany of other charges.

He’s being held on $4.15 million bail, according to inmate records. The investigation into his alleged crimes is ongoing.



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Uzbekistan and Colombia close out the festivities for Day 7 of the World Cup with a night match in Mexico City.

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What our Post expert thinks about Uzbekistan vs. Colombia

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Luis Diaz (39 percent) and Luis Suarez (38 percent) are the top picks to score a goal in the match with James Rodriguez (28 percent) trailing just behind.


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Iran’s parliament speaker signals shift from war to rebuilding prosperity after sealing US deal



Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, appeared to nudge his country to shift away from confrontation and toward helping Iranians prosper.

While addressing China-related policy at Tehran’s chamber of commerce, Ghalibaf, who was a key architect of the preliminary peace deal with the US, called for policymakers to focus on everyday Iranians over war.

“We must take over the trench from the launcher boys, lift people out of economic pressure, and build the country,” Ghalibaf said during his remarks, per a translation.

“I don’t want them to be left alone. No. Let’s make their lives easy and healthy. Let us build the country with power. Let us build it in all its parts.”

Ghalibaf also argued that it was important for China to “believe that Tehran is a partner in the full sense.”

Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, called for his country to focus more on the economy than confrontation. Anadolu via Getty Images
President Trump has faced a revolt from foreign policy hawks over the MOU with Iran. AFP via Getty Images

Ghalibaf’s remarks come as Iran is poised to get significant economic relief from the memorandum of understanding with the US.

The MOU includes a lifting of America’s naval blockade on Iran, Tehran eventually benefiting from a $300 billion reconstruction fund, waivers on sanctions against Iranian oil, and eventually formal sanction relief if the Islamic Republic meets conditions that will be negotiated.

Under the preliminary deal, Iran agreed that it won’t pursue a nuclear weapon and will wind down its stockpile of enriched uranium.

Details of how that will take place will be decided during negotiations for a more full-fledged deal over the next 60 months.

American critics have argued that Iran can’t be trusted with sanctions relief and will eventually resort to building up its ballistic missile capabilities, funding terrorist proxies in the region, and possibly breaking its obligations against nuclear development.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sought to improve relations with the West. But experts have questioned his level of influence within Iran. He may participate in the MOU signing. Foad Ashtari/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

Iran has been battered by decades of sanctions, economic policy failures, and recent attacks from the US as well as Israel.

Last December into early January, Iran was rocked by massive protests over the cost of living crisis in the country as their currency shed significant value.

“Their economy has been in a freefall for a very long time,” Vice President JD Vance told Fox News’ “Hannity” on Monday. “You combine the new leadership, and you combine the fact that their economy is in shambles.”

“I think that they see there’s a real opportunity to turn over a new leaf so long as they do the right thing.”

Vance, who was instrumental during negotiations, also contended that he was “seeing even people that I would have assumed are hardliners who are kind of saying, ‘You know what, maybe it was a mistake for us to do the things that we’ve done over the last 40 years.’”

“‘Maybe we should turn over a new leaf in the relationship with the United States of America.’”





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Apple’s Tim Cook says price hikes are on the way, citing memory chip crunch



Apple plans to hike its prices, citing the rising costs of storage chips and memory, CEO Tim Cook says.

The shift comes as the AI industry has been devouring memory, driving up the costs, and as inflation has been plaguing the economy.

“Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” Cook told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Wednesday.

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during the Apple WWDC on June 8 in Cupertino, Calif. REUTERS

“We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable.”

He didn’t specify the dollar amount of the hikes, say which products would be affected or share the timing.

The announcement came as Apple’s next major product launch is expected in September, the Journal noted. The rollout, usually one of the biggest events of the year in consumer tech, will feature the iPhone 18. A new, foldable iPhone is expected, too.

Price hikes for products including Macs and iPads could hit consumers prior to September, according to the Journal.

Apple fans should brace themselves – the skyrocketing price of memory means the company would have to hike prices seriously to preserve its profit margins. That could translate to a $270 price increase for the next iPhone Pro, according to the Journal, which cited estimates from research firm TechInsights.

Word of Apple price hikes comes ahead of the company’s big annual product rollout, expected in September. H_Ko – stock.adobe.com

The AI data center boom has been gobbling up the world’s supply of memory chips, creating a shortage and casuing prices to skyrocket, according to reports. That has knock-on effects for consumer tech, experts say.

“We’re willing to use our balance sheet to help be a part of the solution,” Cook said. “Obviously, more capacity is needed.”

Still, Apple has no plans to get into the memory-chip business itself.

“We can’t do everything,” the exec said. “We know what we’re good at.”

The line-up of the Apple iPhone 13 is displayed on their first day of sale in New York in September 2021. AP

The warning from Cook, who’s set to step down as CEO in September, comes as the tech giant is redoubling its own AI efforts.

After lagging behind competitors the past few years, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company recently announced a new, AI-powered Siri digital assistant that’s advertised as being “profoundly more intelligent, knowledgeable, and capable.”

Apple is also readying to launch AI-equipped AirPods and glasses – the next step in its development of tech that can analyze images and provide instant context, according to Bloomberg News.

Prices have been going up across the board.

Inflation surpassed 4% in May for the first time in three years as higher energy costs amid the Iran war weighed on prices – seeping into everything from food to airfares as Americans face a rising cost-of-living.



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Bellingham scores early in second half to put England 3-2 up



Jude Bellingham gives England a flying start to the second half against Croatia, scoring in the 47th minute to put Thomas Tuchel’s side 3-2 ahead at the Fifa World Cup.



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‘Never Change’ Hulu Review: Stream It or Skip It?


Never Change (now on Hulu) is the new lunatic comedy from American High, a production company that apparently aspires to be the next Happy Madison. That is, it specializes in films that don’t aim too high of brow, which is a nice way of saying they’re pretty much stupid on purpose. See also: 2020 Pete Davidson vehicle Big Time Adolescence, which helped launch the brand, and most recently, the somewhat self-explanatory Pizza Movie. The key creative behind Never Change is John Reynolds (Search Party), who gets lone screenwriting credit and a key role in the ensemble, and is most likely the one to blame for this wannabe-deranged comedy that’s chock-full of go-nowhere-on-purpose jokes. Whether that tickles your f-bone is the question.

NEVER CHANGE: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? 

The Gist: And by that, I mean “funny bone,” ye of dirty minds. The premise: In 2008, a tornado tore through North Meadows, devastating the high school, and the graduating class was given a pass and allowed to walk despite the truncated school year. In the film’s most absurdist joke, legislation is passed to improve education — what is this, some sort of ridiculous alternate universe or what? — which means said class has to complete two weeks of high school lest their diplomas be declared illegitimate. Problem is, Never Change is set in the present day, and members of said class have aged to their mid-30s, because that’s what happens when one applies the passage of time to the human body. This means a bunch of adults are about to crush each other in the nards with dodgeballs, gut out a sex-ed class led by a remarkably horny instructor, and endure the most awkward prom ever. It’s only logical!

Among the notable retro-students is Katie Cartwright (Sofia Black-D’Elia), a TV newscaster; Sunny Football (Reynolds), an aimless sort who invented pants made out of towels; Tedi Mayo (Carmen Christopher), father of too many kids who owns the local watering hole, Stools (get it? “Stools”? Like the poop?); Curtis Eldgridge (Gary Richardson), a recently fired advertising wonk who keeps experiencing horrific visions/flashbacks of alien abductions; and Amelia Nadler (Jo Firestone), fresh off a breakup with an aspiring DJ, which, against all common sense, has made her depressed. Katie and Sunny consider rekindling their teenage romance, despite her being engaged to a moron (Rudy Pankow). Amelia and Curtis reminisce about being in the school play, a true crime endeavor about North Meadows serial killer saga the Handsome Man Murders, overseen by a creepy director (Topher Grace) who must once again bring his (apparently confessional) masterpiece back to the stage. And Tedi, he yells a lot and I’m not a fan of his hair.

This summary is a grossly inaccurate reflection of Never Change, because it implies there’s a plot that hangs together and functions with any real narrative force. In truth, it’s a collection of deadpan it’s-so-random gags featuring characters who may be under the influence of sociopathy-inducing mass hypnosis. I mean, that teacher, Ms. Jankey (Maria Thayer), is so horny she even bends wayyyyy over in front of dumbass Tedi. Pot brownies get consumed, a guy dies and gets a tribute, another guy throws a raging kegger because his parents are gone, forever, as in they died, recently. Roberta Colindrez, Sunita Mani, Patti Harrison, and Ana Gasteyer turn up in this thing as other characters stirred into the nonsense stew. Are we laughing, though? Not enough. 

Never Change!
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What Movies Will It Remind You Of? I dunno man, The Napa Boys found a way to bullseye the type of surreal comedy Never Change seems to be aiming for, but might be too stoned to pull off. 

Performance Worth Watching: Black-D’Elia seems to be playing the only character even remotely recognizable as a non-insane human being. I don’t know if it works in this particular film, so I’ll just casually mention that her too-brief performance in Remarkably Bright Creatures was enjoyable. 

Sex And Skin: Just some raunchy talk.

Gary Richardson and Jo Firestone sitting on a roof in 'Never Change'
Photo: Everett Collection

Our Take: As ever, your mileage will vary with this type of chaotic comedy. And it’s a sub-brand of comedy I call nonedy, which is engineered to deliver unjokes, which we’re supposed to laugh at simply because they’re engineered to be presented as funny even though they’re rather obviously not funny. E.g., the repetition of the word “shit” and a running joke about the use of the word “obsoosed,” both of which yield a significant amount of silence from the audience. See? Nonedy.

So I have to ask: Are actual joke-type jokes passe? As a Gen-Xer who watched 1987 Mark Harmon hands-down classic Summer School far too many times to be healthy (note: it’s not really a hands-down classic), am I outside the apparent Millennial-and-younger target audience? I’m willing to admit that new developments in comedic styles exist outside my demographic barriers. That’s just reality.

But Never Change allows that manner of un-ness to seep into the key components of its structure and execution. Reynolds and director Marty Schousboe stir in half-assed cliches of teen high-school sex comedies as if they aimed for satire but got bored halfway through conceptualizing it and said hey, good enough. The film begins as a collection of jokes, but deviates into moments of earnest sentimentality in the third act, essentially undermining its harder-edged jokes (the inevitable bit of dark comedy about school shootings, for example). And as soon as it gives us the sense that it’s not putting necessary effort into the writing and character work and instead turning on the camera and trying too hard to be funny on the spot, well, it’s sunk. It’s loosey-goosey by design, but ultimately to a fault.

Our Call: This might end up being a cult favorite for someone out there, somewhere, but it ain’t me. SKIP IT.

John Serba is a freelance film critic from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Werner Herzog hugged him once.





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JD Vance visits Long Island and rips into local congressman as he pledges to stomp out fraud


Vice President JD Vance visited Long Island Wednesday, ripping local Rep. Tom Suozzi as he vowed the congressman’s Republican opponent would help the Trump administration crack down on fraud.

Vance visited Bethpage in Nassau County, where he claimed Suozzi cared more about his stocks than public service and talked up Republican congressional candidate Mike LiPetri.

“If you need a congressman, if you need somebody who’s going to fight for you in Washington, DC, Michael LiPetri is your guy,” Vance said at Gold Coast Studios, “but if you need a wealth manager, put your money wherever Tom Suozzi is putting his money, because this is a man who hates representing you, but loves sitting at his desk and trading stocks.”

Vance said the Trump administration was helping drive down murder rates because of its hardline stance on illegal immigration.

Suozzi, who shot back at Vance at a media opportunity later that day, is known for his prolific stock portfolio performance, and even had the best outcome of any other Democrat in Congress last year, according to alternative data platform Quiver Quantitative.


JD Vance addresses a crowd holding signs that say "Enough is Enough."
Vance made an appearance in Bethpage. Stefano Giovannini for NY Post

His 35% windfall outpaced every major index, according to the platform, which tracks Congress members’ stock trades.

“You need somebody who goes and doesn’t trade stocks, but tries to get legislation passed that makes your life better,” Vance said.

“You need somebody who is not getting rich off the public trust, but is trying to make you rich with every single decision that he makes.”

Vance also addressed crime and fraud as he talked up LiPetri, a former state Assemblyman who is facing fellow Republican Greg Hach in a primary this month.

“One of the things that I love about Mike LiPetri is that he cares about this fraud issue just as much as I do,” said Vance, who was introduced by Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive and GOP gubernatorial candidate.

“He has this belief in an old-fashioned good government concept that when you pay your taxes, it ought to go to the services and the national security needs that it’s meant to go towards.”

The comments come a day after the feds sued Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration, alleging state health officials rigged a bid on an $11 billion Medicaid homecare program. The state health department has dismissed the legal action as “baseless.”

The VP also said murder rates in the state have plunged because “we got illegal criminals out of our country and stood behind law enforcement.”

LiPetri, 35, told The Post after the event it was “truly an honor” to have Vance’s backing as he vowed to make sure tax dollars aren’t sucked into fraud.


Bruce Blakeman, 10th County Executive of Nassau County, speaks into two microphones.
Bruce Blakeman introduced JD Vance on Wednesday. Stefano Giovannini for NY Post

“Our federal government just wastes because they’re not accountable, because the Democrats don’t care for us, it’s about scrutinizing every dollar as if it’s our own,” he said.

The Republican lost to Suozzi in 2024 by just a few percentage points after the Dem won a special election against a separate GOP opponent earlier that year to fill in the House seat vacated by disgraced former lawmaker George Santos.

But Suozzi, 63, tore into the vice president during a Zoom call with reporters later Wednesday.

“The vice president really came across, as I said, as a phony, as amateurish, as childish, and as a liar,” he said.

Suozzi declined to address his stock trading, but challenged the Veep to a debate as he blasted Vance for holding a campaign-style rally during what was billed as a government event.  

“From the very beginning until the very end, it was 100% a political hit job,” Suozzi said.

“So, Mr. Vice President, bring it on, come debate me any time about the policies of this administration and how they’ve affected the people of the United States of America, and the people in this district know me, and the phony baloney attacks that you made today.”



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Neil deGrasse Tyson urges government to just ‘show the alien’


Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a blunt request for the government as the Pentagon rolls out the highly anticipated UFO files — just “show the alien!”

Tyson shared his two cents Monday on “The Fox News Rundown” while arguing the American public is more than ready for irrefutable evidence that aliens exist.

“Is it too much to ask at this point for them to just show the alien? That’s all, I don’t think I’m asking too much here,” Tyson, 67, said.


Neil deGrasse Tyson on Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Failla.
Neil deGrasse Tyson on Fox News Saturday Night with Jimmy Failla. FOX NEWS

Given the century of movies and media about extraterrestrials, Tyson posits that the public’s reaction would be “anticlimactic, given our anticipation for what it could be.”

“We’ve already been told this, so to say if they rolled out an alien, we’d somehow freak out given the century of alien movies we’d been treated to and alien stories… I don’t see that we’d freak out at all,” he said.

He explained that he would only be “shocked if the alien were in fact humanoid because of just the statistics of biological variation on earth, and most life is not humanoid on Earth.”

Tyson’s new book, “Take Me to Your Leader,” is a guide for dealing with extraterrestrial visitors, which showcases what and how aliens might look, act and behave during a first encounter.


Illustration of a flying saucer abducting many human figures with a light beam.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s new book, “Take Me to Your Leader.” Simon Six

He isn’t the only voice demanding transparency from the government regarding alien life in the cosmos.

Earlier this month, former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch accused the American intelligence agencies of absconding billions in spending related to unidentified aerial phenomena.

Grusch, like Tyson, believes that “it’s a continuum from corporeal bipedal life to, you know, what I would consider is like sentient plasma life,” he explained while speaking at a Capitol Hill event alongside members of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.

In February, Trump announced his mandate to agencies to begin the disclosure process for information related to UFOs and extraterrestrial life. 

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters,” he wrote on Truth Social.

Last Friday, the War Department released its third tranche of the UFO files.



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Lefty streamer Hasan Piker claims Israel has no ‘right to exist’ in its current form


Left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker told Charlamagne tha God on “The Breakfast Club” that Israel had no right to exist “in its current formation” during a Tuesday interview, responding to a question about whether Israel and a Palestinian state have a right to exist.

“I think Israel, in its current formation, given that it’s a settler colonial operation that’s seeking out the expulsion or complete extermination of the indigenous population as an apartheid state, does not have a right to exist,” Piker said.

Piker compared the question to asking whether other historic regimes should have continued to exist.

“It’s like, for me, it’s like saying, does Nazi Germany have a right to exist, or does apartheid South Africa have a right to exist? Does Rhodesia have a right to exist? No, of course not,” he said in a clip flagged by Mediaite.

He said he was referring to Israel’s political structure rather than Israeli citizens.

“People have a right to exist. People do exist. Israel currently exists,” Piker said. “It’s just a matter of, are they following international humanitarian laws? And they certainly are not. And I want to change that.”


Hasan Piker, Streamer and Creator, speaks at Web Summit Vancouver 2026.
Piker likened the current Israeli government to Nazi Germany. Sportsfile via Getty Images

Charlamagne asked whether that was similar to saying MAGA “doesn’t have a right to exist” as a movement, and Piker argued such claims are often mischaracterized by political opponents.

“That doesn’t mean kill all Republicans or whatever, right?” Piker said. “I’m sure that’s how people would present it as.”

Piker said the “right to exist” question is used to move attention away from Israel’s conduct toward Palestinians.

“The ‘does Israel have a right to exist’ deployment as a statement, as a question, is a technique to shift the conversation away from Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians,” he said. “To make it seem like the opposition is actually being crazy and they want, like, all Jews to be exterminated, all Israelis to be exterminated, which is not the case.”


Jerry Seinfeld watches the second half of Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
Piker’s comments came after Charlamagne asked the lefty streamer about Jerry Seinfeld’s comments about Palestine. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

The exchange began after Charlamagne asked Piker about Jerry Seinfeld, who was asked to say “Free Palestine” outside a New York Knicks NBA Finals game and responded, “It doesn’t exist.” Piker called Seinfeld “a gross racist” and said denying Palestine exists is a common pro-Israel talking point.

“Palestine existed under Ottoman occupation initially under the Ottoman Empire, and then it became a British holdover occupied state, British-occupied Palestine,” Piker said. “It’s existed for far longer than Israel has. Israel’s only existed since 1948.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Seinfeld for comment, but did not immediately hear back.



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Gwyneth Paltrow did not expect backlash over Israeli ad: source



Gwyneth Paltrow is used to “taking c–p,” as a source told Page Six. But she now joins the ranks of Hollywood celebs being vilified not just over their support of Israel but also for her self-admitted “pretty centrist” views. 

The Oscar winner — whose late father, director Bruce Paltrow, was Jewish — has so far stayed silent in the wake of online attacks over appearing in an ad for a luxury Israeli real estate developer.

Gwyneth Paltrow promoted 51 Park in the coastal city of Herzliya. The ad is only airing in Israel, yet she has received backlash from across the globe. 51 Park
Paltrow never expected the backlash over the advert, a friend said. 51 Park

“With Goop, Gwyneth has showed that she is always willing to take on criticism and work from it,” a friend told Page Six of Paltrow’s lifestyle brand. “She’s used to taking c–p, but she did not expect the fallout from this ad at all.”

The star was blasted for filming a commercial for 51 Park in the coastal city of Herzliya, prompting notable commenters including Livia Firth and Alana Hadid to call for her cancellation.

Hadid, the pro-Palestine activist and sister of models Bella and Gigi Hadid, wrote on Instagram, “This is not even tone deaf it’s actually complicit af.”

Firth, the ex-wife of actor Colin Firth, said she had cancelled a planned trip by Paltrow to Quintosapore, the regenerative farm she runs in Umbria, because “what she did is completely unacceptable.”

The Green Carpet Fashion Award creator also alleged that “complicit” Paltrow supported the alleged “genocide” of the Palestinian people by collaborating with Israeli real estate group Aviv Melisron.

“Making an ad for a luxury condo is as disgusting as it can be for someone [with] privilege,” Firth said, adding that Paltrow needed to be “canceled.”

The star was pictured in Sardinia in Italy while on a getaway with husband Brad Falchuk this week. COBRA TEAM/CIAOPIX / BACKGRID
Paltrow said Falchuk is “so progressive” that he thinks she’s a Republican. “Which, I’m not a Republican,” she added. COBRA TEAM/CIAOPIX / BACKGRID

“Gwyneth is an example to every producer and actor that you cannot engage with Israel without backlash,” Hen Mazzig, Israeli author and Senior Fellow at The Tel Aviv Institute, told Page Six. “If you’re working in Hollywood today, it’s a smart career move not to say anything.”

Scarlett Johansson, another Jewish actress, faced similar issues when she starred in an ad for Soda Stream in 2014. The company’s factory was on the West Bank, and Johansson stepped down from her role as Oxfam ambassador amid the backlash, later insisting she had no regrets about the ad. 

“No, I stand behind that decision,” she said. “I was aware of that particular factory before I signed. And it still doesn’t seem like a problem — at least not until someone comes up with a solution to the closing of that factory and leaving all those people destitute.”

Paltrow, with Falchuk in March in NYC, said she’s “pretty centrist.” GC Images

Although some critics went so far as to say Paltrow is promoting stolen territory, Herzliya was officially bought from Arabs in the 1920s and originally set up as a farming community in November 1924.

According to the Paltrow pal,  the actress, who’s preparing to star in the Netflix movie adaptation of Belle Burden’s hit book, “Strangers,” is also being attacked for her political views.

The mom-of-two clarified her beliefs earlier this month, telling ‘The Good Podcast’ that Brad Falchuk, her husband of seven years, is “so progressive …

Paltrow’s late father, director Bruce Paltrow, was Jewish. WireImage

“I’m pretty centrist and my husband thinks I’m a Republican,” she said. “Which, I’m not a Republican … I feel I’m completely an Independent.”

“She’s a business owner, she’s a sensible moderate. A centrist,” Paltrow’s friend said. “But the idea of being a Conservative in Hollywood is anathema.”

While Aviv Melisron has not responded to the outcry over its ad, Gabi Attal, who ran the creative campaign, wrote on Linkedin they turned to Paltrow as they needed a figure “who effortlessly embodies international elegance, a premium lifestyle, and uncompromising quality.”

We have reached out to Paltrow for comment.



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