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A huge banner depicting Theresa May wearing the Star of David as earrings has been slammed as anti-Semitic.

Hung on the railings of the Bear Pit facing Stokes Croft, the banner was put up around 9.30am on Tuesday, June 6.

But a Jewish woman, who did not want to be named, told the Bristol Post she had challenged the men who were putting up the banner.

She said: “It’s huge, the size of a bus.

“I know it’s a political banner, and I know it’s anti-Theresa May, but why include the Star of David?

(Image: Jennie Banks)

“I think it’s anti-Semitic.

“I’m stunned that we, as a society, have gone back to this. I can’t believe stuff I haven’t heard of, or seen since I was a child is now happening again.

“It makes me sick.”

“I’m shocked. I just think it isn’t healthy in the current climate where terrorists are promoting hatred,” she added.

She now wants the council to remove the banner.

Nima Masterson, one of the organisers who put up the banner, said it was not meant to be anti-Semitic.

“It’s not meant to be that at all. It’s a tiny element of the whole banner.

(Image: Jennie Banks)

“What we are doing with that symbol – it’s an earring – is a reference to Theresa May’s Government’s relationship with Israel.

“It is a critique of her foreign policy, rather than against religion.

“I’m definitely not an anti-Semite. I have Jewish friends, and my half brother and sister are Jewish.

“This is about foreign policy.”

Bristol City Council said Bristol Waste would be removing the banner this afternoon.

UPDATE: The banner has now been removed voluntarily by organisers.