Kudos to the Times of Israel --- for speaking the truth to power. Here telling why Vanessa Redgrave is unapologetic for standing for the people of Palestine

[Jim Doran]

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Vanessa Redgrave unapologetic about 40-year-old ‘Zionist hoodlums’ remark

Following sympathetic 1977 documentary about Palestinians, members of Jewish Defense League extremist group had burned actress in effigy and put a bounty on her head

By JTA30 August 2018, 11:09 pm  

Vanessa Redgrave attends the 75th Venice Film Festival, where she received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Venice, Italy, August 29, 2018. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images via JTA)

Vanessa Redgrave is unapologetic for referring to “Zionist hoodlums” during her Academy Award acceptance speech 40 years ago.

On Thursday, the veteran actress told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview ahead of receiving a lifetime achievement Golden Lion Award from the Vienna Film Festival that she felt a responsibility to speak out no matter the consequences.

Redgrave, 81, was referring in her remarks at the 1978 Oscars to the members of the Jewish Defense League who objected to her funding and narrating “The Palestinian,” a 1977 documentary about the Palestinians’ situation and the activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

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