British Formula One racecar driver Lewis Hamilton proudly displayed his appalling ignorance to the world earlier this week while visiting the Rafah Border Crossing that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt.
While there, Hamilton snapped a photo of himself standing in front of the border crossing and then shared it to Instagram alongside a screed about Israel’s alleged genocide in Gaza.
“It’s an injustice for people to being denied their freedom, their safety and their dignity,” Hamilton wrote in his now-viral Instagram post. “No human being should be treated as though their life matters less.”
“I saw walls stretching for miles, built to keep them in,” the stunningly misinformed Hamilton continued. “Standing there, outside what felt like an open-air prison, all I could think about was getting in to help.”
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As dumb as Hamilton’s social media post was — we’ll explain why in a second — it managed to get even dumber as it continued.
“At Rafah border, I saw food trucks lined up ready to go, but they’re regularly not allowed in or face major delays,” the racecar driver complained. “The first driver in line that I spoke to had already been waiting over 12 hours.”
“At the nearby logistics centre, I saw the hard work of the aid workers, but I also saw what gets rejected for crazy reasons. Sleeping bags, first aid kits, medical equipment, wheelchairs, even footballs for kids,” he added.
Hamilton concluded his diatribe by condemning… Israel.
“Israel needs to fulfil its obligations under the ceasefire and let the aid trucks in,” he complained. “No excuse.”
No excuse indeed, as in there is no excuse whatsoever for a moral preener like him to be so stunningly ignorant of the otherwise obvious truth.
And that truth is that the Rafah Border Crossing is controlled by Egypt, not Israel.
Indeed, according to Middle East Eye, a London-based digital news site, the Egyptians — and Hamas — have been in control of the gateway since 2007.
Since 2007, the Rafah crossing has been controlled by Egypt and Hamas, making it the only gateway not directly controlled by Israel in and out of Gaza.
MEE explains why Rafah is so important ⤵️
https://t.co/cpSEf1Yh3b https://t.co/43Au0WDXYP— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) May 10, 2024
In addition, after the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, Egypt purposefully made the border walls along the Rafah Border Crossing extremely thick.
“Since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted on Oct. 7, Egypt constructed a concrete border wall that reaches six meters into the ground and is topped with barbed wire,” The Christian Science Monitor reported in 2024. “It has also built berms and enhanced surveillance at border posts.”
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Whoops. I guess Hamilton didn’t know any of this.
Evidently, neither did the nearly five million Instagram users who liked his misinformed post. This, folks, is why we can’t have nice things — because of rampant ignorance.
We weren’t the only ones to notice Hamilton’s ignorance. So did Israeli writer and public speaker Hen Mazzig, who argued in a social media post that “when a man with 44 million followers tells them who built a wall, he should get the name of the country right.”
Egypt has been walling off Gaza for years, and it started long before this war. It began with a steel barrier along the border in 2009 and a concrete wall in 2020, with an underground section to block tunnels. During the war, it built more. The road to the Rafah crossing is now lined with miles of concrete and the remains of Egyptian homes that were demolished to clear the area…
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 12, 2026
Mazzig was right. Hamilton should have known better.
Alas, like so many others in our world, he’s been brainwashed into knowing nothing but lies and propaganda.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
