However, Mr Marber told the Jewish Chronicle that he disagreed with this idea. 

He said: “I f—–g hate that expression. Because ‘lived experience’ is sort of a denial of what creativity is and denies the actor the fundamental challenge and right to become someone else to impersonate another human being from another time, from another culture, from another religion, and another sexuality and other gender.

“I really want us Jews to fight our corner, but to not be exclusive and excluding. I want us Jews to be liberal-minded and generous. 

“I think a gentile can play a Jew and a Jew can play a gentile. I don’t like it when someone plays a Jew and gets it wrong.”

However, he added: “I don’t like quotas. I don’t like laws. I think we should be better than that, we Jews.”

In December Maureen Lipman, the Jewish actress, made headlines by declaring that cancel culture was killing comedy. 

She also told the Jewish Chronicle that she was uncomfortable with Helen Mirren, the Oscar-winning actress, who is not Jewish, playing Golda Meir, former Israeli president, in the forthcoming film, Golda.