The Rabbi who interviewed Helen Thomas

Published on February 13, 2013

It may have been divine providence or it may have been just blind luck, but either way, Rabbi David Nesenoff’s visit to the White House in May 2010 was a transformative event — in his life and in that of one of the world’s most renowned journalists.

Congressmen threaten PA aid over Helen Thomas award

Published on April 10, 2012

In a letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, two congressmen said a medal awarded to veteran journalist Helen Thomas could hurt U.S. assistance to the PA.

Palestinians bestow journalism award on Helen Thomas

Published on April 2, 2012

Longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas received a prize in journalism from a representative of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Helen Thomas tells Playboy she was ‘fed up’ with Israel

Published on March 20, 2011

An unrepentant Helen Thomas said in an interview with Playboy magazine that she knew exactly what she was doing when she said on camera that Jews "should get the hell out of Palestine."

Helen Thomas: Jews were not persecuted in Europe after war so should have stayed there [VIDEO]

Published on February 18, 2011

Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas said the Jews did not have to leave postwar Europe because they weren’t persecuted.

Journalists’ group considers dropping Helen Thomas award

Published on January 4, 2011

Helen Thomas’ decision to take her disparagement of Zionists from off the cuff (last May) to on the record (last month) has led a journalists' group to consider dropping her name from a lifetime achievement award. The Society of Professional Journalists is revisiting its decision last summer not to change the name of its Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award after Thomas, 90, told an Arab-American group in Dearborn, Mich., last month that Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street “are owned by the Zionists.” Thomas, a 67-year-veteran of Washington reporting, resigned from her job as a columnist at Hearst last June after remarking to a video blogger that Jews “should get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home” to Poland, Germany and the United States. She later apologized, but her remarks in Michigan on Dec. 2 have raised fresh concerns about the sincerity of the apology.

Saree Makdisi Dumbs Down Apartheid

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 13, 2010

Helen Thomas and Peter Beinart

Published on June 7, 2010

Helen Thomas is American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic. Peter Beinart is a starry-eyed nephew. She loathes the state of Israel; he claims to love it--though both sided with the so-called Free Gaza flotilla that tried to break Jerusalem's naval blockade and allow the arming of the terror group Hamas, which has been firing rockets at Israeli civilians. Both Thomas and Beinart have caused a stir in recent weeks with their comments about Israel--not about the flotilla episode in particular but about the Jewish state more generally.

Helen Thomas quits

Published on June 7, 2010

Helen Thomas quit her job with Hearst in the wake of mounting outrage over her assertion that Israeli Jews should "return" to Poland, Germany and the United States.