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Miriam Margolyes condemns Israel’s policy in Gaza, calling on Jews to ‘shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire’
In a recent clip, Margolyes added that ‘we have to do, as my mother used to say, the right thing … voice your disgust and detestation of the Israeli actions’
Margolyes – whose film credits include the Harry Potter series and Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence – condemned the actions of Hamas and allies on 7 October, when they took some 250 civilians and soldiers hostage and killed around 1,139 people in terrorist attacks in southern Israel. Margolyes did not address comments made by director Jonathan Glazer at the Oscars a month ago, when he said, “We stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people” in Gaza and Israel. Signatories including Joaquin Phoenix, Joel Coen, Todd Haynes, Mike Leigh and Nicole Holofcener wrote that they were “alarmed to see some of our colleagues in the industry mischaracterize and denounce his remarks”.
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