First, some background. In 2007, actress Miriam Margolyes made this spectacularly inane Israel-bashing video. In it, she said she knows “with all my heart, with all my Jewish heart” that Israel is in the wrong. “We have to bring peace to the Middle East,” she declared, before adding: ”How do we do it? I don’t know.” And there we were hoping she had the answer!
Towards the end of the video she explained: “I’m not asking for the obliteration of Israel.” Nice of her, but was she protesting too much? For she has since changed her mind, becoming a proud believer in the one-state solution, which would of course be the end of Israel (but probably the beginning of a bigger bloodbath, she wouldn’t know what to do about that either).
Astonishingly, she has appeared in Caryl Churchill’s play Seven Jewish Children, which has – rightly – been widely condemned as antisemitic. When asked to defend the play from the charge of antisemitism, she said: “That’s bollocks”. She has also shared a stage with Hamas funder George Galloway, disgraced peer Jenny Tonge and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Last week, Margolyes visited the West Bank. As you can see from the Guardian‘s gushing write-up, her main motivation for being there seemed to be to go around telling Palestinians that not all Jewish people support Israel. Or in other words it was all about her. “I have no glib words,” she said, before flying home to Australia. (Wonder where she stands on the aborigine issue?)
The fact she is Jewish doesn’t mean she should have any set opinion on Israel. But her self-indulgence and selective focus do nothing to bring peace any closer. Neither does her appearance alongside Hamas terrorists and their supporters, clearly.
In 2007 she concluded her video by saying: “I am honestly nobody.” Don’t be so harsh on yourself, Miriam. You are somebody – you’re Oy Va Goy’s second Muppet of the Moment!
Miriam please ask your local Hammas rep his opinion on lesbians.
Tra-la-la! Very good, Chas! A friend of my mother’s saw the prize muppet at the theatre once. Aware that the actress had a pathological issue with the Jewish state, she went up to Margolies and simply said ‘L’Chaim Israel!’ To which muppet-face replied, ‘Are you trying to tell me off?’ At which point my mum’s friend simply replied: ‘L’Chaim Israel’ again and walked off. Madame Kermitte was left standing muppet-esque with barely a reply to muster. Quite hilarious really!
Time for La Margolyes to get into bed with two other Jewish Israel-bashing fatties, Stephen (Fry-Up) Fry and Alexei (Say just One more wafer-thin Mint)Sayle and sing a chorus of (You’ve)”Let Yourself Go”, by co-religionist Irving Berlin.
Ooooh, Duvid, what a frightful idea!
Not that one’s appearance matters that much, but she looks a bit like a bag lady in the video.
She could do with the Ahava mud face pack – maybe she can come to the Buycott on the 21st
If only she were a Muppet!
Miriam doesn’t really see the wider picture. Peace talks are taking place at the moment and now is really not the time to be sticking your amatuer dramatic-type oar in.
It occurs to me that the Guardian/Miriam-types would benefit from a little basic understanding of child psychology; you reward the behaviour you want to encourage. Hamas, Fatah (et al) are being amply rewarded for terrorist activities so from their point of view it must be a case of ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. That makes peace even more elusive and puts many Israeli and Palestinian lives at risk. Miriam, of course, will be many, many miles away should another intifada break out. Pontificating from her armchair, no doubt.
Her video reminded me of some of the spoofs from the C4 satire series Brass Eye. Particularly this one.
If you are/were a fan of Brass Eye or Chris Morris’s other shows, I recommend this book.
She’s f*cked-up
In other news, Desmond Tutu retires today. And good riddance: http://www.oyvagoy.com/2009/05/23/desmond-tutus-orgy-of-antisemitism/
He’s a squeaky voiced little twa*. He is a traitor to all the South African Jews ( and Israelis ) who supported him when he needed it.
She is my cousin, by marriage.
Did she go to Nablus and see the Balata “refugee camp”/ghetto where the Palestinian Authority keeps the Palestinians they consider refugees confined with no rights where its increasing population is confined to 1 square kilometre?
The PA does not permit the children of Balata to go to local schools. It does not permit the people of Balata to build outside the one square kilometer. The people of Balata are prevented from voting in local elections, and the PA provides none of the funds for the necessary infrastructure of the camp — including sewers and roads.
Enforced Misery: The PA and the Balata ‘Refugee’ Camp
To call her a useful idiot would be a kind understatement. She utterly fails to perceive the reality in front of her…the elephant in the room, which is Islamic jihad against the Jews. What she calls the ‘occupied territories’ is in fact Jewish land occupied by Arabs.
Tonight in Rome I had the honour of being turned away from a pro-Israeli demonstration at the Temple of Hadrian. We 44 year olds must look more menacing than I thought! There does seem to be a Ms Margolyes around every corner (not all with such lovely diction) but not all Europeans, Jewish or otherwise, are taken in by the Israel bashers, so the Italian journalist Fiama Nirenstein organised dozens of speakers. Each had five minutes to state their love of Israel. There was a wonderful collection of Italians and others. Outside there was a giant screen in the square. How ironic that it took place in the Temple of Hadrian, who crushed Jerusalem. Never again.
She makes the bleedingly obvious self-indulgent soundbites that pacifists are also prone to, droning on about the need for peace as if they are on a higher moral plane than ordinary moratls and are the only ones who want peace yet refuse to face harsh realities. It always annoys me when pacifists preach, because few of us want war, yet sometimes was is necessary and there is the conceot, further, of the just war. In similar fashion to such people, she gets under my skin by calling for the bleeding obvious – the cessation of hostilities – yet ignores reality, completely exculpates the Arabs from any wrongdoing, and cops out with a confessed ignorance of how to solve the problem about which she’s so self-righteously preaching. An entire exercise in vanity and futility. A talking budgie would have had as much to offer.
She really is quite revolting Chas.
She was here in Australia last year, I think, and with a gleeful gravitas as it were took part in a reading of Seven Jewish Children along with Max Gillies, another Left-wing Jew who is married/partnered to a woman who published the equally revolting Antony Loewenstein’s My israel Question, an antiIsrael work.
Margolyes was supposed to perform for a local Jewish aged home but when they found out about her performance in the SJC reading they cancelled her. Well! Was she outraged!!
Punished for having a dissident voice doncha know! I heard her on radio actually saying that the local Jewish community heads
“should be smacked” for their attitude, blah blah blah.
She’s allowed to dissent you understand but that anyone takes offence at her behaviour or disagrees with her is simply immature and not to be borne!
Lot of anti-Jewish chanting at that reading (which of course turned into a demo) as I recall – not accurately reported by a local “reporter”, naturally.
I saw that video of hers too – she looked like she had just emergerd from a muddy flowerpot and had not washed. Later I found out she had performed as Professor Sprout in a Harry Potter movie so perhaps she decided that her dirty politics
should be reflected in her face and attire.
Saw Alexei Sayle’s video to – looked bored stiff, even while saying Israel was an apartheid state.
These people are not Muppets – won’t have you muddying the Muppets, Chas, I love that show!
they are deliberate and malevolent idiots.
That this thrice-removed second cousin of Hellen Thomas (“Jews get the hell out of Palestine”) (just kidding, but both hags might certainly be related to each other) gets even 1 minute of attention from anybody speaks very lowly of that anybody. Her only accurate words in her disgusting diatribe are “I’m honestly nobody”.