Dame Maureen Lipman, an 80-year-old Jewish actress, has claimed she was forced to hire security due to Labour's inaction on anti-Semitism. She stated that pro-Palestine supporters are boycotting her play, Allegra, over her support for Israel. The play's posters have been doctored with anti-Semitic caricatures, including a poster depicting her with horns and a pitchfork. This comes after Police Scotland was criticized for ruling that the 'anti-Semitic' image of Dame Maureen Lipman was not a hate crime.
Dame Maureen Lipman , an 80-year-old Jewish actress, has claimed she was forced to hire security due to Labour 's inaction on anti-Semitism. She stated that pro-Palestine supporters are boycotting her play, Allegra , over her support for Israel .
The play's posters have been doctored with anti-Semitic caricatures, including a poster depicting her with horns and a pitchfork. This comes after Police Scotland was criticized for ruling that the 'anti-Semitic' image of Dame Maureen Lipman was not a hate crime. The force was assessing a photograph on Facebook of the actress with red devil's horns and a trident, which was posted by pro-Palestine activists calling for her to be dropped from a play.
The Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC) lobbied for people to back a petition demanding that the 80-year-old 'national treasure' be stopped from taking to the stage. Police have logged the photograph as a non-crime hate incident, despite the implementation of the Hate Crime Act in 2024, which introduced new offences of 'stirring up hatred'.
Dame Maureen Lipman believes anti-Semitism in the UK has reached levels akin to the pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1933, following the stabbings of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London. The former Coronation Street star also called for a ban on pro-Palestine marches in London. The ruling that the image did not constitute a hate crime was met with backlash from the Jewish community in Scotland.
Chairman of the Jewish Council of Scotland, Timothy Lovat, reported the image to police and said that there was a 'reluctance from Police Scotland to charge people with these sorts of crimes'. He claimed that until there is a conscious effort from all parties to put a stop to this anti-Semitic hate, the Jewish community in Scotland will remain unsafe in their own homes.
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has stated that the horrific rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish hatred in Britain and across the world is intolerable, and they will not rest until Britain is a place where every Jewish person can live openly, safely and proudly. They are investing a record £58m in protective security funding for the Jewish community and taking tough action across every corner of society.
The actress has hired protection after 'bigots' tried to have her new stage show cancelled in Aberdeen, where she appeared at His Majesty's Theatre from May 26-30 in a touring 'heart-warming comedy with music' called Allegra, by Peter Quilter. Dame Maureen Lipman bows at the curtain call during the press night performance of Rose at The Ambassadors Theatre on May 26, 2023.
She recently told LBC that she believes anti-Semitism in the UK has reached levels akin to the pogroms in Nazi Germany in 1933, following the stabbings of two Jewish men in Golders Green, London. The former Coronation Street star also called for a ban on pro-Palestine marches in London. The ruling that the image did not constitute a hate crime was met with backlash.
Chairman of the Jewish Council of Scotland, Timothy Lovat, who reported the image to police, said: 'I had a meeting with the Chief Constable last week and she told me this was the case.
'I don't understand what a non-crime hate incident is - if it is a hate incident, then in my humble opinion it should be a crime. ' He claimed there was a 'reluctance from Police Scotland to charge people with these sorts of crimes', adding: 'Until there is a conscious effort from all parties to put a stop to this anti-Semitic hate, then the Jewish community in Scotland will remain unsafe in their own homes. ',
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