By Daphne Anson
British actress (I suppose it’s poltically correct to say “actor”) Miriam Margolyes, who has been an Australian citizen for some years (the photo shows her receiving her naturalisation certificate from no less a personage than them prime minister Julia Gillard), is an inveterate Israel hater, who can usually be relied upon to sign leftist “as a Jew” statements vilifying Israel. This, for instance.
She is consequently a darling of the anti-Israel media including the supposed-to-be impartial taxpayer funded ABC, which as Herald-Sun columnist Rita Panahi showed brilliantly in an article this very day (behind a paywall, I’m afraid) is now more blatantly than ever the home of leftist activism posing as journalism, a place that’s nor merely a conservative-free zone but, increasingly, a centrist-free one as well.
In March 2015 Margolyes, a panellist on the ABC’s Q&A program (the ABC’s version of the BBC’s Question Time) scapegoated Israel for antisemitism.
As former federal MP Michael Danby, observed in 2015,:
“I think it is appalling that the ABC had on its Q&A program the execrable woman Margolyes, who, of all the actors in Australia, had to be brought on to Q&A to comment on international affairs.
She who said, quite disgracefully on this program on Monday, that antisemitism is quite understandable.
It is not understandable in any circumstances.The death of those people [in Paris and Copenhagen] is not justifiable, Ms Margolyes.
You are a disgrace, and the ABC is a disgrace for putting you on…”
The latest way in which unapologetic Corbynista Margolyes has broken ranks with mainstream majority Jewish opinion is her endorsement of this despocable slur on Chief Rabbi Mirvis, who of course has, not before time, issued a statement deploring the effect of Labour Party antisemitism upon British Jews:
Pretty shameful, eh?
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