Lillian Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an anti-racist Jewish American author of plays, screenplays, and memoirs and was linked with many socialist and humanitarian causes. Outstanding anti-racist Jewish American writer Lillian Hellman was hated and defamed by the Zionists. Alice Kessler-Harris has recently observed that "Hellman was understood by many people in the fifties and sixties to be a "non-Jewish Jew" or a "self-hating Jew". Yet she had been an early opponent of Hitler's Germany and an active contributor to funds for Jewish refugees in the late thirties and forties". Zionist fanatics picketed the Academy Awards in which Vanessa Redgrave was awarded an Oscar for her performance as Julia in "Julia" based on a controversial story about an anti-Nazi heroine by Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman) (Google "Vanessa Redgrave" for the Wikipedia account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave ). One can begin to understand the venom of Mary McCarthy's appalling demolition of Lillian Hellman; "Everything she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the"" (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Hellman ).
Lillian Hellman: "Zionism is an atavism", "[Zionists] were angry that I wasn't" and "I am not only not a well-known Zionist, but Zionist have accused me of being an anti-Zionist". [1].
[1]. Lillian Hellman quoted in “The Stolen Legacy of Ann Frank. Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary.” by Ralph Melnick (p34).