Vanessa Redgrave: Fate of the elderly in care homes is 'abominable' Well, if your parents are alone, the children haven't been behaving right. It's a sad fact that a whole lot of factors have completely changed life and communities and families. Redgrave, who is known as a political activist as well as for her work on stage and screen, added she was also "appalled" by the struggles of the young, who are trapped in student debt and exploited in internships. She also used the interview to clarify her involvement in a documentary supporting Palestinians in 2007, which led an American television show to call her "the woman who hates Jews." "Oh no, no, no," she told the magazine. That has so little to do with how I think. I suppose most people just don't know me at all, don't know what I've done or what I care about.