'The Boys' faces boycott as star Tomer Capone’s past in Israeli army resurfaces

Social media boycott calls target Amazon's hit series after actor's graphic 2016 interview describing military actions against Palestinians resurfaces. | Contesto: cronaca

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Calls to boycott Amazon Prime's hit series "The Boys" are gaining momentum on social media following the resurfacing of a 2016 interview in which Israeli actor Tomer Capone described his military service, including detailed accounts of violence against Palestinians. The controversy erupted in mid-April 2026, coinciding with the premiere of the show's fifth season, as translated excerpts from the Ynet interview circulated widely on platform X. The interview, originally published eight years prior, contains stark first-person narratives from Capone's time as an Israeli Defense Forces soldier enlisted in 2004. He describes participating in a raid on a family home in Nablus in the occupied West Bank to arrest an 18-year-old woman. "The family does not let their 18-year-old daughter out easily, and a struggle begins. Pushing, cursing, and we grab her and drive off," Capone told Ynet. He recounted finding her zip-tied and blindfolded, later seeing "eight other girls inside who look more or less the same," an experience after which he said he "just fell apart." He also described refusing a father passage through the Huwwara checkpoint to reach a hospital with his sick daughter because orders prohibited it. Further accounts from the interview include Capone's time as a commander during an operation where another soldier fired toward children throwing stones, and what he termed "pranks" at checkpoints, such as disassembling a fruit truck and cutting open watermelons "just for fun." The actor reflected on the psychological toll, stating he and friends "lost it" and that their actions "made them go crazy." He criticized Israeli politicians for being "only interested in their personal needs," for which soldiers pay the price, and said he later realized he had been "a puppet on a string to serve something." The backlash centers on the perceived hypocrisy of a show lauded for its anti-authoritarian, anti-fascist satire employing an actor with this background. Capone, who is of French-Algerian descent, plays the French-Algerian character "Frenchie," a fan-favorite bad-boy with a dark past seeking redemption. Prior to "The Boys," he starred in the controversial Israeli drama...

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