Does Carnival support Israel?

We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Carnival. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.

Filed under: Hotels & travel companies · Companies that support Israel

Background

No corporate donations or support for Israel are on record for Carnival Corporation & plc. The association people draw between Carnival and Israel comes mainly from the Arison family, not the company: founder Ted Arison was an Israeli who returned to Israel in 1990, and his philanthropy there (the Ted Arison Family Foundation) was personal; his son Micky Arison, Carnival's longtime chairman, was born in Tel Aviv, and the Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation is likewise a personal vehicle whose public giving centers on South Florida, health research and disaster relief. Corporately, Carnival's brands (Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and others) historically included Haifa and Ashdod as routine ports of call; on October 7, 2023 Holland America's Nieuw Statendam left Haifa early after Israel's emergency declaration, and group brands then canceled or rerouted their remaining Israel calls. Carnival has no political action committee, and searches found no corporate or corporate-foundation grants to Israel-linked organizations.

Wikipedia — Ted Arison Wikipedia — Micky Arison Inside Philanthropy — Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation Cruise Hive — lines that suspended Israel operations Cruise Radio — ships left Haifa on October 7

What we checked

• News & official statements — 2026-07-21
• Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-21
• SEC filings — 2026-07-21
  81 full-text 'Israel' hits reviewed; overwhelmingly Form 4 insider filings tied to Arison family shareholders (notably Shari Arison, the Israel-based former director/major shareholder), not company operations; no Israel operations, contracts or donations disclosed.
• Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-21
  FEC committee search returned no Carnival political committees; the corporation has no PAC.
• Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-21
  Carnival does not appear on BDS movement target lists or common boycott lists, and no viral claims about Carnival supporting Israel were found to cross-check.
• usaspending — 2026-09-24
  Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-24 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
• lobbying — 2026-09-24
  Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-24 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
• ohchr — 2026-09-24
  Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-24. This company is not listed in it.
• whoprofits — 2026-09-24
  Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-24 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
• hebrew-arabic-press — 2026-09-24
  Searched Hebrew and Arabic news for this company on 2026-09-24 via Google News and Bing News. No headline mentioned a donation, aid, the war, an investment, an acquisition or a boycott.

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Sources & citations

Record last updated: 2026-09-24

• Wikipedia — Ted Arison en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia — Micky Arison en.wikipedia.org
• Inside Philanthropy — Micky and Madeleine Arison Family Foundation insidephilanthropy.com
• Cruise Hive — lines that suspended Israel operations cruisehive.com
• Cruise Radio — ships left Haifa on October 7 cruiseradio.net