Helen Thomas might do better to just ask questions.
The grande dame of the Washington press corps put her foot in her mouth with an answer at the White House last week, suggesting Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else.”
The jaw-dropping words from the 89-year-old Hearst Newspapers columnist hit the Internet on YouTube Friday and sparked a firestorm of controversy.
Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, sharply rebuked her. “Shame on Helen Thomas. She is certainly old enough to remember the Holocaust and the Second World War. She owes an apology to all victims of the Nazis,” Steinberg said.
Thomas posted a lukewarm apology on her personal Web site.
“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon,” she wrote.
The daughter of Lebanese immigrants who has covered the administrations of 10 Presidents in a career spanning nearly 60 years made her controversial comments at a White House Jewish Heritage Celebration on May 27.
Meanwhile, former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, who endured a lot of pointed Helen Thomas questions, told Sam Stein of The Huffington Post that Hearst Newspapers should dismiss Thomas for saying Jews need to “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Poland and Germany.
“She should lose her job over this,” Fleischer said in an email. “As someone who is Jewish, and as someone who worked with her and used to like her, I find this appalling.”
“She is advocating religious cleansing. How can Hearst stand by her? If a journalist, or a columnist, said the same thing about blacks or Hispanics, they would already have lost their jobs.”
Thomas knows that she could never say the blacks should go back to Africa or the Hispanics should go back to Mexico, she would ruin her over-celebrated reputation as the “dean” of the White House press corps.
(Source: NY Daily News / NewsBusters)
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Fire her??? She’ll probably get a Presidential medal.
look at that nazi nose she has.
May she drop dead as soon as possible
Imagine if she would have said this about African Americans……
Obama would have her press card pulled on the spot.
What a raging anti-semite this old rag is.
Why don’t we flood her newspaper with demands that they fire her?!
Someone get the info and post it here now so we can crash their email servers with requests.
We’ve done this before on YWN for other important things.
Someone please post the email and phone numbers!
witch what she is.
she looks like she came from Germany.
Where are all th politicians or is this not worth their efforts.
what a nazi.
zetzer, cant agree with you more if that commentwouldve been directed to blacks, they woouldve created a death penalty for her
This is her boss’s email address:
[email protected]
Now let’s flood Lisa Bagley’s email. Get EVERYONE you know to post on Facebook & send emails.
someone give us contact info for her email and paper. We should attack them.
Look at #9, it has the boss’s address. These are some popular Hearst magazines: cancel your subscriptions
# Cosmopolitan >>
# Country Living >>
# Esquire >>
# Food Network Magazine >>
# Good Housekeeping >>
# House Beautiful >>
# Harper’s Bazaar >>
# Marie Claire >>
# O, The Oprah Magazine >>
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# Veranda >>
No thanks Nazi Thomas, we don’t accept your apology, nothing short of your death may be your atonement. No, you won’t be forgiven for such racist words that showed your true colors and biased stance. As to your company, we will boycott and protest till you’re fired. Lawsuits will be slapped and high-profile claims will do until you’re dismissed. You guessed right, a Nazi like you probably read ‘Mein Kamf’, you should’ve known that we indeed run the world (our God, that is ) and we’ll retaliate. We won’t rest until you’ll really regret the day you were born. We’ll turn over the nation until you feel oppresion, the one you wish upon us. One thing that I am certain, you’re a descendant of Amalek and therefore I wish you ‘Yemach Shmeich Vzichreich’ – May your name and memory be uprooted. Amen.
completely incorrect article/video. your creating a media “phenotype” or personality and basically making israel a 50/50 issue in a democracy. this video basically teaches older women the option of antisemitism.
to make this video correct she needs to be casted as a weirdo and in prison at the end of the video. i guess i should start packing my bags.
i have a feeling jews arnt going down so lightly this time, we know whats going to happen next.
This evil hag is just saying what liberals all over the world think (and many say) anyway, including the Obama administration.
RE my last comment to make it clear, the
Obama administration like liberals all over the world think this anyway.
And many liberals (not the Obama administration) actually say it, as well as think it.
Protest Nazi Helen Thomas’ remarks
about Israel and the Jews. Send to [email protected]
for her dismissal.
Huh what a joke! Is nothing sacred anymore?
Full Contact Info:
Hearst Corporation
300 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-649-2000
[email protected]
After releasing a statement declaring their refusal in considering her dismissal and being supported by friends in the liberal media and the Clinton press secretary more pressure will be needed to get her fired. Lo Eis Lachshos, this is how it all starts. We ought to stop this now before this becomes the norm. This is how Hitler started and this is what fires up the anti-semites. We should do all we can to save ourselves in time from people that wish our destroyal. Do you remember what riots went on when a newspaper published a cartoon of Mohammed? While that isn’t our weapon rather Hakol Kol Yaakov… It should be done with prayer but as Yaakov did three things; Tefilla, Milchama and Matana, so do we have to wage a diplomatic war. Call the Hearst Corporation and demand her dismissal and threaten a boycott by canceling subscriptions etc.
p.s. If one thinks that these statements were not anti-semitism rather anti-Israel, remember what the anti-Zionist leader said about such people: They aren’t anti-Israel rather anti-semites, they just express themselves on what they think is the Jewish nation – Israel. Besides that comments of this sort is far from regular anti-Israeli statements, this is classical neo-nazi material.
The difference between the situation we find ourselves in now and the one in the 30’s and 40’s is that then the goal was destrying our bodies while now the attack would seem to be directed at our choseness – Atah b’chartanu m’KOL ha’amim. Worls opinion is reminding us that their hatred for us – is so unfounded (absurd) – that the only logical explanation is that ever since Sinai, sinah has gone out from Sinai. The only answer is to strengthen ourselves in our belief that we ARE different! But as long as we will strive to be like them -k’maaseh Eretz Mizrayim . . . Uk’maaseh Eretz Canaan . . . – our clothes, our homes, our vacations, our cars, our phones, etc. we are bound to be forced to learn this important lesson.
May Helen Thomas merit a quick “reward” from the One that meets out true justice to all neo-nazis no matter how old or what they do for a living. Amen!
Those who are calling on us to cancel subscriptions I would hope that readers of YWN are not subscribers to the list of trash posted by a previous commentator.
I believe “grande dame” of the press corps refers to her social position, not her journalistic positions. Being a columnist for the Heart company qualifies you as a “minor leaguer”.
Since when is Hearst a liberal organization? Remeber their late, unlamented newpaper The New York Journal-American? It was absolutely pro-nazi.
I am sure the because of her remarks Helen Thomas will probably get a raise, a promotion, and a nice fat bonus.
No self-respecting Jewish person, frum or not, should be patronizing their publications, and their advertisers should be told that if they continue their support, the Jewish public will also boycott their products.
She mentioned germany poland and usa, she is probably too ignorant to realize that about half or israelis are of sephardic decent
.
P.s. She should go back to lebanon.
I miss Ari Fleischer.