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On Mideast, Vanessa Redgrave Isn't a Straight Shooter

(Chicago Sun Times) Jay Bushinsky - Vanessa Redgrave, the British actress and campaigner for human rights, told a meeting of foreign correspondents in Jerusalem that, ''Any Palestinian mother or schoolchild knows that a schoolchild who is dressed in the uniform can be and is frequently shot in the head - not in the chest, not in the legs, in the head.'' Redgrave based this horrendous allegation on one of four documentary films produced by UNRWA and screened last month at its Geneva headquarters, while her UN colleagues and escorts sat beside her without batting an eyelash. This astounding and highly provocative charge is verbal poison that conforms to the 2,000-year-old blood libel that Jews allegedly engage in the premeditated murder of non-Jewish children. And it is astounding that the representatives of UNICEF and UNRWA who sat at the dais alongside Redgrave did not deign to disagree or correct her remarks.
2004-07-09 00:00:00
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