Helen Mirren Responds to Evil Zionist Attack

Dame has broken her silence after being branded an ‘evil Zionist bitch’ by an anti-Semitic far-Left activist called Tom Carroll during a shocking street confrontation in London.

Speaking to Variety at the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, the Oscar-winning actress said she had been ‘attacked by mistake’ by a man she described as ‘maybe a little over passionate or maybe mentally not quite stable.’

The incident took place in November as Dame Helen, 80, walked with her husband, director Taylor Hackford, 81, near Tower Hill by Carroll, from north London, who has a history of posting abusive anti-Semitic material online. 

Footage of the encounter, first posted by an anonymous account called Anti-Fascist Action UK, showed the actress smiling and asking the man if he was ‘OK’ before he launched into an expletive-filled tirade.

He You said Israel should last forever because of the Holocaust. And she was very happy the Palestinians' houses were gone.

'You are an evil Zionist bitch. And you [Mr Hackford] as well, f*** you as well.'

The Oscar-winning actress has long been outspoken in her support for Israel and has voiced opposition to cultural boycotts against the country. 

Reflecting on the incident in Sicily, Dame Helen said she had been targeted by someone who was either ‘over passionate’ or ‘mentally not quite stable.’

She also expressed concern for the current conflict, saying that ‘evil forces are rising everywhere, even in a country like Israel.’

Dame Helen, who , said: ‘I played Golda Meir and worked in a country that was the idealistic Israel, and I always thought it was a country that would never do wrong, but of course they were doing wrong, even then.’

Explaining why she has continued to support Israel, she added: ‘I was born at the end of the Second World War, I grew up in Europe post-Second World War and the realisation in my parents’ generation of what had happened in the Holocaust was so profound, so important.

‘Therefore, the creation of Israel was a very important moment, although maybe it was done in completely the wrong way, in the wrong place, I don’t know. But something had to happen after the horror.’

The actress added that she has ‘such great friends from Israel’ and said her first two boyfriends were Jewish, including an Englishman with whom she travelled to Israel as a young woman, where she worked in a kibbutz after the Six-Day War of 1967.

She later added: ‘When you play Catherine the Great, why was Catherine called the Great? Because she took land.

‘Why was Alexander the Great? Because he took land. He invaded, he killed people, he destroyed cities and he took land. Why is he remembered in history? Because with incredible brutality and unbelievable cruelty, he took land.