Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has called for Miriam Margolyes’s OBE to be stripped.

The Harry Potter actress, who is Jewish, claimed Adolf Hitler has “won” by making Jewish people “like him” during Israel’s recent occupation of Gaza.

The 83-year-old added that while she acknowledged the “wickedness and cruelty” inflicted on Jews by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, the Israeli government was now doing the same to Palestinians in Gaza.

She said in an interview with The Big Issue: “I cannot bear to think that my people are doing exactly the same thing to another nation.

“And the nation they are doing it to, the Palestinian nation, was not responsible for the Holocaust, it had nothing to do with it. That was a purely European pleasure.

“So my heart is broken and I think the terrible thing I have to face is Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.”