On Monday during ABC’s The View, Spanish actor Javier Bardem was invited on the show, but co-host Ana Navarro had to turn the segment into a left-wing biased agenda. Navarro confirmed Bardem as a “long-time activist” which opened the door to Bardem expressing his support for Palestinians in the name of “humanity” while parroting Hamas propaganda.
The View was widely known among conservatives as a show that does not concede their political views, biases, or victim cards. Navarro pivoted the questioning from his acting career to his activism with an overwrought statement about the crackdown on illegal immigrants, “there’s plenty of things to speak up about, here in this country. We can’t stop talking about immigration as I’m sure you know our community is being hunted down.”
She later asked, “Why is it so important for you to use your voice?” Bardem claimed that politicians today have a ‘deaf tone” for what the people have to say about social justice issues and then used what was happening in Gaza to back his claim up by parroting Hamas propaganda suggesting Israel was intentionally harming and killing kids:
For example, the situation in Gaza, which I see your-and of course they have to return those hostages-obviously-but the situation in Gaza has come to a term now where I cannot- I cannot express the pain that I, alone with many millions of people there suffer on a daily basis watching those horrible images of children being murdered and starving to death, being absolutely blocked the aid of medicine, water, medical material. Kids that have been amputated without anesthesia. People that yesterday, they were shot-25 people were shot while they were looking for humanitarian aid in what they call ‘the Hunger Games.’”
While Bardem focused on one side of the situation, he downplayed the horrors of what happened in Israel (initiated by the Palestinians) on October 7, 2023 by simply noting, “of course they have to return those hostages obviously.”
The actor went on to say that the US had a role in “the impunity that is taking Israel in doing these actions” and expressed:
I mean, experts on international law, experts on international amnesty, international, international human rights and some people that know what they're talking, and Holocaust survivors are calling it a genocide for it. And if you ask me, I believe it's a genocide. Why is that? First of all, because the impunity that is taking Israel in doing these actions and the lack of – of action on any government is, of course, the backup of United States with all those weapons and the economics and also the silence of Europe, is creating a scenario where there's such an impunity that if we really don't do something about that, were going towards – Well, what is happening now, an absolute impunity on creating wars all over and creating so much pain that is going to affect so many people.
Let’s go back to Navarro’s words when she brought up immigration. Is it for “humanity” or “decency” to support illegal immigrants, while some of them murdered American citizens like Laken Riley or Jocelyn Nungaray?
Click here for the transcript.
ABC’s The View
6/16/25
11:41 a.m. Eastern(...)
ANA NAVARRO: And Javier, we, um, you have been a long-time activist. You are not just an actor and a pretty face. You are an activist and I –
JAVIER BARDEM: Thank you for the pretty face. Thank you. You've been way too generous for that.
NAVARRO: I have actually seen you do it in English and in Spanish, that's another thing you have done in both languages for a variety of causes, and there's plenty of things to speak up about here in this country. We can't stop talking about immigration, as I'm sure you know, our community is being hunted down.
BARDEM: Yes.
NAVARRO: But there's so many things that are important to you. Why is it so important for you to use your voice?
BARDEM: I don't think it's about using the voice, which it is, it's about decency, decency, to be decent as a human being and to not forget your humanity. And also the right we have as citizens to really, as you were saying before, draw a line in the sand so that politicians and those who are supposed to represent us know that we are the voice and they have to hear us.
Basically, what is going on in the world today, it's very much a lot of deaf tone coming from them and not hearing what we have to say. For example, the situation in Gaza, which I see your – and of course they have to return those hostages obviously – but the situation in Gaza has come to a term now where I cannot -- I cannot express the pain that I, along with many millions of people there suffer on a daily basis watching those horrible images of children being murdered and starving to death, being absolutely blocked the aid of medicine, water, medical material.
SARA HAINES: Food.
BARDEM: Kids that have been amputated without anesthesia. People that yesterday, they were shot – 25 people were shot while they were looking for humanitarian aid in what they call “the Hunger Games.”
I mean, experts on international law, experts on international amnesty, international, international human rights and some people that know what they're talking, and Holocaust survivors are calling it a genocide for it. And if you ask me, I believe it's a genocide. Why is that?
First of all, because the impunity that is taking Israel in doing these actions and the lack of – of action on any government is, of course, the backup of United States with all those weapons and the economics and also the silence of Europe, is creating a scenario where there's such an impunity that if we really don't do something about that, were going towards – Well, what is happening now, an absolute impunity on creating wars all over and creating so much pain that is going to affect so many people.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah.
BARDEM: But also, and on this I will finish, the most important thing is to not lose the humanity and really denounce when we have to denounce and who we have to denounce.
(Applause)
GOLDBERG: Javier, come back. And – [Cuts to black]
