http://www.israellycool.com/2012/05/30/barry-dame-edna-humphries-dig-at-anti-israel-actress/ I have long heard that comedy legend Barry Humphries, the man behind Dame Edna and other characters, is pro-Israel. No, I didn’t read that on the Internet (although I did read that he made Dame Edna Jewish), but rather heard it directly from people in the real world. Go figure.
With this in mind, when I saw this exchange with Jewish BDS-hole Miriam Margolyes on ABC Australia’s Q&A, I couldn’t help but see it as Humphries taking a dig at her for her anti-Israel ways.
Update: Daphne also sees this as indicative of Humphrie’s pro-Israel views.
http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/05/barry-digs-for-israel.html Her face shows her abhorrent mind
Barry Digs For Israel
Celebrated British/Australian actress Miriam Margolyes is seen here in one of her recurrent roles, ardent Israel basher:
Equally celebrated Australian comedian Barry Humphries, long known as a supporter of Jews and Israel, and close friends since their schooldays at Melbourne Grammar with a distinguished rabbi whom I too know and love, has given Miss Margolyes a little piece of his mind on the ABC, when both were panellists on the discussion show Q&A. A reader of my blog who saw it tells me:
'Miriam Margolyes had early complained about being attacked by Jews for being critical of Israel. Later from 37.20 Barry Humphries has a very subtle dig at her in his sarcastic way. I'm not sure she would have even gotten that he was attacking her. He says after she brought up Mel Gibson (he had made a point that most actors were lefties);
[About Mel Gibson to her] "....well you know, he’s a fellow anti-semite, which you should think about Miriam, and you know Miriam – whose wonderful show of Dicken's Women is in Sydney on Thursday night at the Opera House is incredible, it may not be mentioned again so I'm giving it a plug – you’ll find north London Jews will be perfectly happy with what you have to say, there’s a few anti-semites amongst them I can tell you."
To which she replies "and understandably so" ...'
Some time ago, blogger Ray Cook (no rightwing thunderer, by the way), at the end of a memorable piece prompted by Miss Margolyes's remarks on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show which implied support for a single state solution, observed:
'Margolyes and other ashamed Jews need to educate themselves. I am sick of being ashamed of them.
What is she saying now? Oh yes, the Israelis should understand and accept that they owe reparation to the Palestinians just like the Jews expect it from the Germans.
So she, perhaps unwittingly, makes a moral equivalence between the way Jews were treated in the Holocaust and the way Palestinians (who have been hell-bent on another Holocaust for 100 years, and certainly 60) have been treated by the Israelis.
Who attacked Israel in 1967?
Why was the PLO formed in 1964 before there was any ‘Occupation’?
The Israelis are behaving ”so cruelly’. Yes, sometimes all those with power over others behave cruelly. Maybe she should understand why Israelis might do so to Palestinians who want to kill them, and blow up their children on buses and in their beds. Why can she only see one side to this conflict?....
How often do we see people in the media like Miriam Margolyes, Jews and non-Jews, well-meaning, decent people who just do not understand. They live in their cosy left-wing bubbles dreaming of world peace where all will be luvvies.
Sorry Miriam. You are a very nice woman and a wonderful actress, but you are a deluded Jew.
Go read some history. Go read the PLO charter and the Hamas charter.... [Y]ou need to wake up out of your deluded lefty dreams, you and all the ashamed Jews.'
Update: Habima's appearance at the Globe, which Miss Margolyes wanted cancelled, was disrupted by a bunch of usual suspects, as this BBC report indicates. See my next post.
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