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How is this 'protest'? Helen Mirren targetted

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:19

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

Moment Dame Helen Mirren is called an 'evil Zionist b****' in London

The video, first posted by an anonymous account Anti-Fascist Action UK, shows the Oscar-winning actress being approached as she walked in London with her husband.

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

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SpringIsCome · 28/05/2026 12:46

Pudmyboy · 28/05/2026 12:44

Citation needed, that just sounds like rage bait, frankly

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

Weeellokthen · 28/05/2026 12:44

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😮where did you get that quote from ??

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Citation needed, that just sounds like rage bait, frankly

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:43

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

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Fauxlein · 28/05/2026 12:42

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

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:37

Fauxlein · 28/05/2026 12:33

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.

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.

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 28/05/2026 12:34

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.

Fauxlein · 28/05/2026 12:33

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.

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:32

BorneBackCeaselesslyIntoThePas · 28/05/2026 12:31

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

I don't understand what you mean?

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:32

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?

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BorneBackCeaselesslyIntoThePas · 28/05/2026 12:31

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

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:30

Brank · 28/05/2026 12:24

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.

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Brank · 28/05/2026 12:24

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?

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Blueredyellowgreen · 28/05/2026 12:22

rubyslippers · 28/05/2026 12:19

It doesn’t help
its vile antisemitic abuse

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.

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rubyslippers · 28/05/2026 12:19

It doesn’t help
its vile antisemitic abuse