The video has resurfaced after first being shared in November 2025.
Helen Mirren and her husband Taylor Hackford was verbally abused on the street (Picture: antifascistactionuk/Instagram)
An anti-Semitic activist who verbally abused Dame Helen Mirren on the street has been named. Tom Carroll, from north London, who has a historical past of posting offensive content material on-line, is known to have confronted the nationwide treasure whereas she was together with her husband Taylor Hackford in London, calling her an “evil Zionist b****”.
The second was captured in a video shared on the Instagram account ‘Anti-Fascist Motion UK’, which reposted the clip from November 2025 on Wednesday, confirming that the one who ran the account shot the video. The Day by day Mail established the Instagram was linked to a YouTube and PayPal account run by Carroll, who has additionally been tagged in posts linked to the account.
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Tom Carroll is believed to be behind the video (Picture: Tom Carroll)
The video confirmed Dame Helen asking the stranger if he was okay as he approached her. However the filmer launched a verbal assault on the actress.
He mentioned: “And there may be Helen Mirren the avowed Zionist. You mentioned Israel ought to final without end due to the Holocaust. And he or she was very glad the Palestinians’ homes had been gone. You might be an evil Zionist b****. And also you [Mr Hackford] as properly, f*** you as properly.”
Mr Hackford repeatedly informed the person to “f*** off” because the scenario grew hostile, and requested him to go away them alone. Dame Helen has lengthy been outspoken in her help for Israel.
The account has additionally reposted memes, together with one which mentioned: “It is okay to be antisemitic.”
In 2018, Carroll was wished in reference to an assault on an 84-year-old girl at Shoreditch station. 5 years later he handed himself into police and the Crown Courtroom accepted his plea of not responsible to assault, however he was sentenced to a 12 month group order and 200 hours unpaid work for a public order offence of threatening behaviour.
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