"I can't support Miliband as he is the wrong type of Jew" Maureen Lipman 2014

This is from The Guardian 2014


Actor Maureen Lipman has abandoned a lifetime’s support of Labour and announced she would vote for “almost any other” party at the general election, partly in protest at Ed Miliband’s support for recognising the Palestinian state.
The star of stage and screen gave a dim assessment of the present shadow cabinet, telling Standpoint magazine: “The Chuka Harman Burnham Hunt Balls brigade? I can’t, in all seriousness, go into a booth and put my mark on any one of them.”
“For the first time in five decades, I shall not be voting Labour because I can not support Palestine and because Miliband is the wrong kind of Jew.”

But the prominent Jew reserved her most hostile comments for the Labour leader’s decision to back a symbolic Commons vote in favour of recognising the state of Palestinealongside Israel.
And she said she had a “sneaking suspicion” that David Miliband – who was unexpectedly beaten to the leadership by his brother in 2010 – “may return strengthened by his time out in the real world”.
“I’m an actress, Ed, and I am often commended for my timing,” she wrote of the Commons vote.
“Frankly, my dear, yours sucks.
“The world is exploding around us. Isis is beheading our civilians while raping and pillaging across Syria and Iraq. Presidents Putin and Assad are playing such heavy-handed games that we don’t know which rebel group to support.
“Hong Kong may be about to see a replay of Tiananmen. Islamist terrorism in every spot on the globe and if one Jew had been responsible for any of those bombings, there would, I am afraid to say, have been another Kristallnacht.
“At this point in our history you choose to back these footling backbenchers in this ludicrous piece of propaganda?”
She went on: “May I remind you that no one is tunnelling into Dover or sending rockets into Coventry, yet we seem to have every right to bomb the living daylights out of Iraq.
“Again. Conclusion: one law for the Israelis, another law for the rest of the world. Plus ca change.”
Lipman also took a swipe at Mr Miliband’s awkward eating of a bacon sandwich in front of the TV cameras during the local and European election campaign in May.
Miliband, who is from a secular Jewish family, had told her he wanted to “learn more about his religion of his birth” by attending a traditional Shabbat dinner at her home.
“Two days later he was all over the papers, knocking back a bacon sandwich,” she said, referring to the Jewish dietary taboo on pork.
“So, come election day, I shall give my vote to another party. Almost any other party. Until my party is once more led by mensches,” she concluded – using the Yiddish term meaning “a person of integrity and honour”.
It seems unlikely the actress would lend her support to Ukip after the eurosceptic party leader Nigel Farage sought to blame one of her best-known roles for too many young people going to university to study poor quality degrees.
The star’s well-known 1980s BT television advert, where she told her grandson that having an “ology” made him a scientist, meant now there were lots of students “getting ‘ologies”, Farage said.
“I blame Maureen Lipman for the whole thing.”


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