{"id":701198,"date":"2026-05-29T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:56:12","slug":"actress-helen-mirren-harassed-in-london-for-zionist-stance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701198\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Helen Mirren harassed in London for Zionist stance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actress Helen Mirren was called an “evil Zionist b****” by a man in the street on Wednesday, while walking in the East London<\/a> neighborhood of Tower Hill.<\/p>\n

The 80-year-old Oscar-winning actress was walking at night with her husband, director Taylor Hackford, a video posted on X\/Twitter showed, when she was accosted by a man calling her “Helen Mirren, the avowed Zionist.”<\/p>\n

“You said Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust<\/a>,” he shouted at her. “She was very happy that Palestinians’ houses were gone,” he added. Hackford shouted back for him to leave them alone.<\/p>\n

Mirren, despite not being Jewish, has been outspoken in her support of Israel for years.<\/p>\n

In 2023, she portrayed the former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir<\/a> in the film Golda.\u00a0During this time, Mirren spoke to Israel’s Channel 12, where she stated, \u201cI believe in Israel, in the existence of Israel. I believe Israel has to go forward into the future, for all of eternity. I believe in Israel because of the Holocaust.”<\/p>\n

Last month, she also joined hundreds of leading entertainment figures in putting her name on a petition to support Israel’s inclusion in the Eurovision<\/a> Song Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actress Helen Mirren was called an “evil Zionist b****” by a man in the street on Wednesday, while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26325,68895,49,48,75,196806,45025,88533,4472],"class_list":["post-701198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actress","tag-anti-israel","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-golda-meir","tag-helen-mirren","tag-holocaust","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}