Helen Thomas regarding Jews: “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine.”
Rabbi Nesenoff broke this story on RabbiLIVE.com …
Rabbi David F. Nesenoff interviewed Helen Thomas on the White House Lawn on American Jewish Heritage Celebration Day, Thursday, May 27, 2010 at the White House. Helen Thomas also said that Palestine is a country of occupation, whose occupiers, Jews, should leave the region, returning to “Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else”.
Thomas was born in Winchester, Kentucky. Her parents, Mary (née Rowady) and George Thomas, were Lebanese immigrants from Tripoli, Lebanon. She was brought up in Detroit, Michigan, and attended Wayne University (now Wayne State University), graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1942. Thomas’s first job in journalism was as a copygirl for the now-defunct Washington Daily News, but shortly after she was promoted to cub reporter, she was laid off as part of massive cutbacks at the paper.
Thomas joined United Press International in 1943 and reported on women’s topics for its radio wire service. Later in the decade, and in the early fifties, she wrote their “Names in the News” column, for which she interviewed numerous Washington celebrities. After 1955, she covered federal agencies such as the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Thomas served as president of the Women’s National Press Club from 1959–60.
Thomas has served as an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps and author. She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every President of the United States since the later years of the Eisenhower administration, coming to the forefront with John F. Kennedy. She was the first female officer of the National Press Club, the first female member and president of the White House Correspondents Association, and, in 1975, the first female member of the Gridiron Club.