“The Amazing Spider-Man” star was among hundreds who signed the Artists4Ceasefire letter last year, urging US President Joe Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire to end the war in Gaza.

In 2021, Garfield said his Jewish heritage has taught him empathy. “Because of the ancestral memory of what it is to be persecuted, of what it is to be told that you don’t belong on this earth, that there’s a physical threat of violence and extermination, and how deeply moving it is that we have survived that threat, that can only enhance our empathy for anyone else going through that same kind of injustice and threat of physical annihilation,” he explained.

He has also previously described the superhero Spider-Man, also known as Peter Parker, as Jewish.