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Veteran journalist Helen Thomas whose remarks that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine” forced her into retirement will be feted by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
From the Detroit Free Press
The Washington group will present Thomas, who grew up in Detroit, with the 2010 Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award.
She was selected by the National Arab American Journalists Association and the family of late Arab-American newspaper publisher Dr. Mohammad T. Mehdi.
Thomas, a graduate of Wayne State University, was considered a pioneer for women in journalism and known for her pointed exchanges with presidents, but she had grown more outspoken of U.S. foreign policies in recent years.
In June, she was forced to resign from Hearst Newspapers after she said Israelis should “go home” to “Poland, Germany and America, and everywhere else.”
Several metro Detroit Jewish leaders were guarded Tuesday in their reaction to the award. The Jewish Community Relations Council reissued a statement it made earlier this year when the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn announced plans for a statue of Thomas. It quoted Richard Nodel, president of the JCRC: “I just hope that the support for this memorial is there despite her anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views and not because of it.”
Kari Alterman, director of the Detroit chapter of the American Jewish Committee, issued a one-sentence statement saying the organization is “extremely disappointed that a woman who engaged in crass anti-Semitic rhetoric should receive an award from anybody.”
This will do wonders for Arab- Israeli relations. What was the selection committee thinking?
Here is the video of the remarks that ended her career.
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3 Comments for Thomas to Receive Journalism Award
How about a front cover from TIME and NEWSWEEK showing a liberal politicians selling pencils on the street corner witha sign I PAID IN NOVEMBER
This proves once and for all there are NO MODERATE MUSLEMS. Muslims the world over actively teach an ongoing, irrational hatred not only of Israel, but of all Jews personally, and often, in a often disguised form, and equal hatred of Chrisitainity. Not just the adults who attend fiery sermons in Mosque, but children listening to their elders, hear a continuing blame for all the world’s ills on the Jews, a trumpet call for the annihilation of every Jewish man, woman, and child; such cannot claim itself to be a peaceful religion. Of course, we have in Northern Ireland, Christians vs. Christians, Catholics and Protestants imbued with their mother’s milk a distrust and consequest hatred for each other, amplified yearly into their maturity by Priest and Minsister alike, that any atrocity in the name of Jesus Christ is OK as long as it is perpetruated, against a congreants of the other church. Religious hatred is the same the world over, and Muslims are no exception. All religions teach proclaim their own moral superiority, and one way or the other, preach the hatred of some other religious group; even if it is just implied, it is there. And the more devout of each religion pride themselves on the extent of that hatred! Will the world ever survive so many people speaking for such a malicious God!
Wouldn’t it be great if Newsweek or some liberal rag would grace their front cover with a picture of Helen Thomas in running shorts?