How is this 'protest'? Helen Mirren targetted

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A 'protestor' called Dame Helen Mirren an 'evil Zionist Bitch'. How does this actually help 'palestine'? AIBU

YANBU - this isn't protest and doesn't help palestine

YABU - this is protest and is ok

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15854799/Dame-Helen-Mirren-evil-Zionist-pro-Palestine.html

It doesn’t help
its vile antisemitic abuse

For those who won't open links to DM. The story is on other sites too.

https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/28/dame-helen-mirren-accosted-pro-palestine-supporter-shock-video-evil-zionist-b-ch-28552489/

I agree and yet on our streets we hear antisemitism. Jewish people living in the UK not only feel unsafe they actually are unsafe. Attacks on Jewish people, ambulances, synagogues.

Why are some pro palestine protesters unable to see/hear/know that the problems in Gaza are nothing to do with Jewish people here in the UK.

It’s vile antisemitic abuse of an elderly woman.

Doesn't help anyone or anything.

Might get the perp a few pats on the back from their antisemitic friends.

It’s about the actions of the Israeli government, though, of course. They definitely just don’t hate Jews.

Funny how often the mask slips though, isn’t it?

Some 'protesters' feel enabled and ok to do this. This man was obviously feeling it was ok, otherwise why do it, it was filmed and no doubt shared. Some 'protesters' appear completely obsessed with Gaza as a cause and maybe shouting at people who are Jewish proves to their mates that they are on the right side? Who knows. It's hateful and really needs sorting.

Is this the sort of stunt that gets called a reverse?

To the people who voted 'I'm being unreasonable' and this type of 'portest' is therefore OK in their view - why is it OK to abuse two elderly people in the Streets?

I don't understand what you mean?

It's so stupid and doesn't achieve anything. Was a Palestinian child saved by calling her a bitch? Did Netanyahu see that and think 'My goodness, I need to change what I'm doing'

I remember being horrified at a video I saw from the US. A group of female pro-lifers protesting outside a clinic. A young man went up to argue with them and suddenly did a round house kick to one of the protesters, ostensibly to 'stop her filming'. I am vehemently pro-choice, and have peacefully counter-protested many pro-life demonstrations. But the idea of a young man thinking he was in the right to assult a woman in the name of women's rights was soul destroying.

I think this proves two things. That it’s far safer once you get a platform to avoid talking about politics altogether, and two, society has broken down.

Yes, it's pointless using hate speech at an 80 year old woman and her husband. Yet, this man, felt it was ok to do so. Did it make the protestor feel better, that he had done something useful. It's bizarre the lack of thinking skills that the abusive man used.

I call it toddler politics. You are a BAD person and so I am allowed to be ANGRY at you and because I have the opposite opinion that makes me a GOOD person and anything I do is GOOD and if you are BAD you deserve it

Where is that from? It's not in the story.

Citation needed, that just sounds like rage bait, frankly

😮where did you get that quote from ??

But true as reported in The Times of Israel about her 1967 visit

8% think it’s ok to shout anti-semitic abuse in the street? What sort of a world are we living in?

I've googled the quote and couldn't find it. Could you provide a link since you are making a claim.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/helen-mirren-israel-must-exist-for-eternity-because-of-the-holocaust/

Helen thinks the Middle East needs to suffer because of European evil

Pure misogyny and ageism, disgusting behaviour, no normal human would think this acceptable. The perp should be locked up.

"I witnessed things that were wrong,” she said of her visit. “I saw Arabs being thrown out of their houses in Jerusalem. But it was just the extraordinary magical energy of a country just beginning to put its roots in the ground. It was an amazing time to be here"

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/helen-mirren-israel-must-exist-for-eternity-because-of-the-holocaust/amp/

She’s not Jewish, so I’m confused why anyone is saying this was an antisemitic attack on her?

Calling her a bitch is wrong of course, calling her a zionist is just stating a fact?

It does. I cannot find it anywhere.

I did find that she said that she thinks Israel should exist. There's nothing wrong in suggesting Israel should exist. The opposite, having it wiped out by various terrorists groups funded by Iran. She also opposes the direction the current government is taking the Jewish state in.

"British actress Dame Helen Mirren believes Israel must exist forever, saying it was a lesson learned from the Holocaust, though she opposes the direction the current government is taking the Jewish state.
In an interview aired by Channel 12 on Sunday, Mirren spoke about her leading role in “Golda” depicting Israel’s first and only female prime minister, Golda Meir, during the period of the fateful 1973 Yom Kippur War. The interview was recorded in July when Mirren was in Israel for the premiere of the movie at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
“I believe in Israel, in the existence of Israel, and I believe Israel has to go forward into the future, for the rest of eternity,” Mirren said. “I believe in Israel because of the Holocaust.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/helen-mirren-israel-must-exist-for-eternity-because-of-the-holocaust/

I get this...... The page you were on is trying to send you to https://www.timesofisrael.com/helen-mirren-israel-must-exist-for-eternity-because-of-the-holocaust/amp.