Dame Maureen Lipman has had a long career acting on film, stage, television and comedy. She’s taken on some specifically Jewish roles, in the movie The Pianist and is currently starring as an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor in Rose at the Park Theatre. Lipman has long been an outspoken critic of antisemitism in the UK, especially within the Labour Party as well as by calling out the distortions in the media’s coverage of the Israel/Palestine conflict.