They put a bounty on Redgrave’s head and picketed Oscar night, burning her in effigy as “Arafat’s whore”. A JDL member would later go on to be convicted of the bombing of a Los Angeles theatre which had been set to screen The Palestinian.
So it was a great victory that the Academy had ignored the JDL’s threats and voted for Redgrave to win the Oscar. She used her speech to thank the audience.
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