New York Daily News
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 [the clip received nearly 1 Million hits since] 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.
Questioned about the Palestinians by Rabbi David Nesenoff for RabbiLIVE.com, Thomas said, “Remember, these people are occupied and it’s their land. It’s not Germany, not Poland.”
Meanwhile even as she was trying to walk back the remarks, calls for her firing mounted.
Among the more vocal was former former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who claimed to have a close relationship with Thomas when he was manning the daily briefings.
“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.”
no wonder she is labanease
she is dum
Call a” Hearst” for her to be taken to cremation
Helen Thomas is NOT a grandmother of any member of the human species. Full stop. She married at 51, and she ain’t no Sorah Imenu (lehavdil) that she could have children and therefore grandchildren. Your act is stale. Try again, kiddo.
B”H. who needs more of her!
I hate these people! let their names be erased from planet earth, and their memory too!
how does that (expletive) say that an laugh
LOL ur a big liar b/c u just said ur grandmother loves everyone and in the video shes telling us to get the hell out of here so just watch what you say!!!!
r u jokin or its realy ur grandmother
Familiar?
While i must believe that … was always an anti semite, it is revealing that of all 10 presidents she covered, only nOw does she actually say what she always believed, so much for non bias reporting. A Alte Machasheifah!
yumach shemah
witch
too much lipstick. she has gotta get the heck outta the white house or we gotta get the heck outta america, whatta abnox
yes that is my grandmother what u search her ??? that is rude and just b/c she looks creepy she is’nt!!!! she is very kind and loves everyone so just Shut you’r MOUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
she should get the heck out of the white house!!!
For the record, Helen Thomas has no grandchildren, children or any other human offspring. She married in 1971 at an advanced age. Of course, given her tenuous connection to the human species, it is possible she did mother some sort of five or seven legged offspring somewhere along the line.
She is a notzriah and if Hizbollah had their way with her she would never have made it to pollute this earth for 90 years. The woman is sick. Look up Brigitte Gabriel to find the true Lebanese notzri opinion of Jews and EY. (Oh, and there is a big physical difference between the 2, age notwithstanding).
To the troll who claims she is your grandmother – is Ahmadinejad your uncle and Erdogan your aunt? Or is it the other way around?
Contact Hearst Corp.
We need a Jewish Al Sharpton!
Ari Fleisher is 1000% correct. If she would have said all blacks should go back to Africa she would have long been fired already.
We must encourage our Jewish leaders – and ourselves – to speak out against this!
call her employer – the hearst corporation and tell them to fire this wicked witch!
telephone: 212.649.2000 ext. 0
call now…leave messages…let our voices be heard!
what a nice way to talk about granny!!
omg if it wasnt so pathetic it’ll actually be funny…
gosh…a witch is an understatment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She has face for a newspaper columnist!! Small wonder she never made it as a TV reporter. Machseifa…
old rotten piece of … u would think the older the smarter and the more respect they would get, every 2 year old should be taught to disrespect this old puts age means nothing
All Americans of Europen descent should promptly return to Europe, of African descent to Africa, and of Asian descent to Asia. Leave the land to the Native Americans, it’s their land. Come to think of it, it is probably originally the land of the buffalo.
Actually, Helen should get off this planet; it belongs to people. She should go home to the planet of the apes!
we won because hashem led us. this land is ours because hashem gave it to us via the torah and fight. this woman does not deserv our attention.
MY SCREEN JUST BLEW WHEN THAT PICTURE OF HER CAME UP LOLOLOOLOL ok its ot ice unfortantly some people are just diusting looking and as poited out earlier it reflecs woth shs like on the inside…………
no way shes my grandma also we must b related:)……………. anyways shes a sick sick sick person and her inside diffidently shines through on her outside!!
Lol grandmother
Vicious lady…
THAT WOMEN HAS ALREADY DROPPED DEAD!
Washington press “CORPS” ha ha ha -bekarov!!
What you think the daughter of Lebanese immigrants would have anything nice t o report about Israel OR the US for that matter???
Why does this come as a surprise? This is your typical left wing liberal media! (it just came out a little bit more blunt when caught off guard ) let”s see what will be done after she was “exposed”…
Israel why can’t the world let us have i tiny country of our own !
Let her go back to lebanon and see how they’ll treat her there!!!
even to admit that !
hey this is my grandmother so u shouldint talk if i were u!!!
Give the US back to the Indians and Americans go back to England….
such a face should never be seen in public, lol. a true machshaifa!
at least she is honest and open re her hatred
most in the mainstream media hide their true colors
so much for UNBIASED journalists
How many years do you think this old prune has left? (if i were her, I wouldn’t even buy green bananas).
Wish I could be a fly on the wall of hell when she arrives!
you can see her inside by what she looks like on the outside……………………………………..evil, ugly, vicious!
doesnt matter to the world that the land was g-d given, what shud matter is we won the land fair and square!
burn in hell woman!
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… Read more »
BECAUSE IT SAYS IN TORAH NOT BECAUSE UN “GAVE” IT TO US!
David Nesenoff is a regular at Chabad in Stony Brook
If what she said wasnt bad enough, she looks like a witch!!
she deserves that face
how abt u get the hell outta palesting! she is a freaky lost her mind maniac!