The Palestinian is a 1977 television documentary that runs for 66 minutes. Vanessa Redgrave produced and starred in the film, which was directed by Roy Battersby and stars Vanessa Redgrave.
An explosion occurred in front of the Doheny Plaza theater in Los Angeles at 4:26 a.m. on June 15, 1978, forcing the film’s scheduled opening that evening to be postponed by one day. The incident was later linked to a member of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), who was subsequently convicted.
Vanessa Redgrave had previously won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Julia earlier in the year. In her acceptance speech at the Academy Awards, she made scathing remarks about “Zionist hoodlums,” which were taken to be a reference to the Jewish Defense League, which was picketing the ceremony.
A Beverly Hills movie theater that was contracted last night to show “The Palestinian,” an allegedly anti-Israel documentary film starring Vanessa Redgrave, was bombed today at 4:26 a.m. The bomb, which detonated outside the loboy, caused damage estimated at $1,000 by Gerald Peters, manager of the Doheny Plaza theater. Despite this, the theater stated that it would show the film tomorrow night on a cart.