Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist for humane causes, such as the rights of the Palestinians (in 1977 she had funded and narrated a documentary film “The Palestinian” about Palestinians and the activities of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation) (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave ).
Vanessa Redgrave on Zionism: “Zionism is a brutal, racist ideology. And it is a brutal racist regime.” [1].
Vanessa Redgrave (1978) accepting the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress award for her performance in “Julia” (she had been subject to much abuse from Zionist fanatics who picketed the awards):
“My dear colleagues, I thank you very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda [playing Lillian Hellman, the friend of anti-Nazi heroine Julia derived from “Pentimento. A book of portraits”, a controversial fictional book of memoirs by Lillian Hellman] and I have done the best work of our lives, and I think this is in part due to our director, Fred Zinnemann.
And I also think it's in part because we believed and we believe in what we were expressing--two out of millions who gave their lives and were prepared to sacrifice everything in the fight against fascist and racist Nazi Germany.
And I salute you, and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you've stood firm, and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums whose behaviour is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression.
And I salute that record and I salute all of you for having stood firm and dealt a final blow against that period when Nixon and McCarthy launched a worldwide witch-hunt against those who tried to express in their lives and their work the truth that they believe in. I salute you and I thank you and I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism.” [1].
[1]. Vanessa Redgrave quoted in “Vanessa Redgrave”, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Redgrave .