Helen Thomas: You Know What the Real Problem is? Anti-Muslim Sentiment. And the Joooos!
[Guest post by Aaron Worthing; if you have tips, please send them here. Also if you don’t know the “Jooo” meme, read here.]
Hey, remember when Helen Thomas said the Jews should be driven out of Israel, and then apologized. Well, she is back at it again:
“I can call a president of the United States anything in the book but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank,” Thomas said. “No American would tolerate that — white-only roads.”
By the way, that is a complete canard. Even the Washington Post has been taken in by it (and corrected themselves when the truth was exposed), but it is. But the hypocrisy on display is stunning. There isn’t a word denouncing Saudi Arabia for its discrimination against non-Muslims—including having areas of the country forbidden to Christians. And for that matter she was fired for declaring that she wanted all of Israel to be a Jew-free zone. She isn’t really opposed to segregation, she just doesn’t like it when it favors Jews (and such segregation didn’t exist, contrary to her lies).
Thomas claimed that “You can not say anything (critical) about Israel in this country.”
Of course she was speaking from prison where she had been locked up for the crime of saying something anti-Semitic, right? No, of course not. So, so much for the claim she can’t say it. These kinds of statements always smack of fascism, since what they are really complaining about is that you are exercising your free speech to shun such speech.
She goes on:
“We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There’s no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where there mouth is…We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.”
But the real problem, according to her, is bias against Muslims and/or Arabs. Indeed, this speech was made at “an Arab Detroit workshop on anti-Arab bias[,]” and she made herself known on that subject:
“We all know the Arabs are much maligned. They are automatically terrorists. I was called the Hizballah at the White House, Hamas, and everything else. But I never bowed to those kinds of slurs because I know who I am. I’m an American.”
At the end of her speech, Thomas spoke about bias against Arabs and then recalled the words of a rabbi at Martin Luther King’s 1963 civil rights march on Washington D.C., when he made his, I have a dream speech. Thomas said that the rabbi, who survived Nazi concentration camps, told the crowd “the greatest sin of all in the Nazi era was silence.”
“And so we have to speak up for our rights, even at price, even at a cost.”
Of course this Arabic audience was appalled by her anti-Semitism and hypocrisy, and responded appropriately, right?
Yes, that is a rhetorical question. The Detroit Free press tells us that the “speech… drew a standing ovation.” Indeed despite her previous eliminationist rhetoric that
[t]onight, Thomas attended the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, where a bust of her was unveiled. And she is to speak at a high school in Dearborn on Friday.
But to its credit Wayne State University has finally corrected a bit of bad irony:
Wayne State University is yanking an award named for journalist Helen Thomas, citing remarks she made criticizing Israel during a conference in Dearborn.
In a brief statement e-mailed to reporters Friday, the university said it “strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas.”
Better late than never, I suppose.
Which of course brought condemnation from National Arab American Journalists Association (NAAJA) coordinator Ray Hanania has denounced this as a blow to free speech and diversity. At his twitter account he wrote that “Wayne State University casts doubt on its diversity and commitment to professionalism after vicious attack against Helen Thomas.” Meanwhile, on behalf of NAAJA they released a statement asserting that somehow taking this award away from was a violation of free speech, in that same fascistic way that somehow free speech requires me to shut up about your bad speech. He has a history of pretending that all of this is lies and slander.
Of course irrational anti-Muslim bias is real. But I couldn’t think of a better illustration of how we have overblown that concern, while downplaying the very serious concern about the rising anti-Semitism in our society, particularly coming from the Muslim-American community, a fact that is borne out by statistics.
[Posted and authored by Aaron Worthing.]
Of course the “mooslims” have done nothing to earn the disdain.
Jim (844377) — 12/4/2010 @ 4:23 pmWhy would anyone pay any attention to this “has been”?
AD-RtR/OS! (434c01) — 12/4/2010 @ 4:38 pmShe didn’t do a good job. The “Kill the Jooos” handbook specifically states that any anti-Semitic essay or speech much include a reference to killing Gentile children for Passover. See Rule 11 on page 69. So even though she quoted from the updated version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and used the recommended trope of quoting a rabbi out of context, we need to deduct at least ten points from her score.
It’s rather sad that there’s nothing really worthwhile in Dearborn, because, as it now stands, there’s no use in me boycotting Dearborn.
kishnevi (d52176) — 12/4/2010 @ 5:42 pmThis creature is just one example of the reason I’m not all that enthusiastic about research into extending life.
Think of all the evil-doers and incompetents in this world who have gotten and held on to power through cunning, and kept it long past their ‘use by’ dates – continuing to destroy as they go along. ugh.
<blockquote>”..and not until your whole generation has lain down and died will the dead weight of you be off our backs!”
ShyAsrai (921609) — 12/4/2010 @ 8:14 pm~Dr. Prentice, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”~
Life can be very hard on those who have little or no physical beauty.
I can not imangine being so ugly that I would embrace a racist and sexist ideology such as Islam as the only way to get laid.
Good luck Helen. There must be one woman hating child molesting follower of the Koran for a sweet girl like you.
highpckets (d42ce5) — 12/4/2010 @ 9:27 pmLife has become so secure and “safe”, that the defective genes never get vacumned from the gene-pool before they can propogate.
AD-RtR/OS! (434c01) — 12/5/2010 @ 12:17 amIn her time Helen has been a relentless propagandist for liberals, Baathists and Al Qaida.
A real scumbag.
Luckily, her time is about to end.
Dave Surls (4cc655) — 12/5/2010 @ 3:48 amHelen Thomas tells the truth no one wants to read, especially the ZioNazis and their Neoconservative lackeys. The US government and media accept ISSraeli policies because the ISSraelis share our hatred for Arabs, especially those who stand for their rights and dignity. Someone has to point that wickedness and hypocrisy and I admire Helen’s courage in doing so. She is an awesome person and will be remembered as such when truth finally prevails and ISSrael finally atones for the horrors it brought.
4Truth (0692b1) — 12/5/2010 @ 3:53 amHelen Thomas tells the truth no one wants to read, especially the ZioNazis and their Neoconservative lackeys. The US government and media accept ISSraeli policies because the ISSraelis share our hatred for Arabs, especially those who stand for their rights and dignity. Someone has to point that wickedness and hypocrisy and I admire Helen’s courage in doing so. She is an awesome person and will be remembered as such when truth finally prevails and ISSrael finally atones for the horrors it brought.
4Truth (0692b1) — 12/5/2010 @ 4:07 amI appreciate the work you are doing, Aaron, but you are really screwing up the whole “Joooos!” thing. I think that you will find that there must be no less than SEVEN os after the J for it to comply with the official IMAO International JOOOOOOOOOOO! Conspiracy™ Guidelines. Please conform with standard usage in the future. Thank you.
David
David, infamous sockpuppet (725724) — 12/5/2010 @ 4:10 am“Helen Thomas tells the truth…”
Ha ha ha
Dave Surls (4cc655) — 12/5/2010 @ 5:43 amAnyone else besides me see the problem with this statement as-written?
Anyone?
Anyone?
“…their mouth is…”
When journalists, and other professional writers don’t even get their grammar correct, you’ve got a serious — and I DO MEAN SERIOUS — educamacationalisticcy problem on your hands.
IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (9eeb86) — 12/5/2010 @ 5:44 amI can only pray that she’s the first, and loveliest of the virgins offered to terrorists in the afterlife.
ukuleledave (ab2451) — 12/5/2010 @ 5:57 amI think the word you’re searching for here is “Boomers”.
IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (9eeb86) — 12/5/2010 @ 6:15 amHelen’s photograph has an honored spot in my crawl space; it keeps the termites away.
Old Coot (f73cf0) — 12/5/2010 @ 7:39 amYou ZioNazis may laugh about her appearance but she’s not the one whose grandchildren will be embarrassed and ashamed one hundred years from now. She’s not the one licking ISSrael’s boots and cheering as it ethnically cleanses Palestine. She’s not the one who’ll take it hard when the Oppressed finally overcomes the Oppressor. Long live Helen!
4Truth (0692b1) — 12/5/2010 @ 7:55 am__________________________________________________
I post the following as a tribute to the fine, upstanding, big-hearted, humane, wonderful journalist Helen Thomas.
Asalam alakum, Helen.
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Mark (3e3a7c) — 12/5/2010 @ 8:07 ameach time see helen
ColonelHaiku (c51653) — 12/5/2010 @ 8:34 amcolonel not help but think of
arafat in drag
Twoofers are always so amusing. FIRE NEVER MELTS STEEL !!!!! ZOMFG the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOS !!!!
JD (0d2ffc) — 12/5/2010 @ 8:35 amWhy is everyone paying attention to this senile woman?
Kevin M (298030) — 12/5/2010 @ 11:15 amHelen Thomas is of Arab (Lebanese) descent, like Danny Thomas. First generation — she was born in America but her parents were immigrants and changed their name at Ellis Island.
nk (db4a41) — 12/6/2010 @ 1:06 amThat vile, old hobgoblin is a piece of wicked work. Seriously, doesn’t she live in a gingerbread house and lure small children there so she can eat them?
Vivian Louise (05aded) — 12/6/2010 @ 3:31 am