Antisemite Helen Thomas doubles down

Surely that should read " Helen Thomas put down ".

Well, after her nasty comments, she tried to 'apologise' but I never bought these pseudo-apologies she made. Kind of: "I'm sorry that some people get offended when I call them thieves and tell them they should go back to the countries where they were so unwelcome after the war and butchered during the war, but I mean it anyway and won't take it back".

The antisemitic bitch like most antisemites, believes she is just anti-Israel.

In fact, like most self-proclaimed "anti-Zionists" she says exactly the same as racists always said to 'foreigners': "go back to your country". The funny thing is to see the lefties agree with that. Double standards are a sure sign of antisemitism.

"Surely that should read " Helen Thomas put down " "

If only. That's the only way to deal with rabid bitches.

At the time of her original comment, I wondered whether the old gal is suffering from a bit of senile dementia and is confused enough to think that Jews still live in Poland and Germany - in other words, is she confused re her decades.

... and I'm sure all those Jews from Arab lands would be happily welcomed back.

Why she's even forgotten to mention the Jews from her native Lebanon. The 2,000 year-old Jewish community of Lebanon - 14,000 in 1948 - has declined to less than 50 today.

I'm sure Hizbollah would give them a blast of a Welcome Home party.

But, Kahina, Jews are only Ashkenazim in Israel!

And not the verbal defence: "I am a Semite!", pretending to ignore that the term anti-Semite refer only to Jews.
Reminds me of the defence "some of my friends are Jews!".

According to Thomas, there could not be an antisemite in Arab countries while we know more than 90% of the population has antisemitic feelings.

Of course you are correct, Kahina, but does Helen Thomas really matter? After all, once her views became known, she was totally marginalised and ridiculed. That's exactly how one-state extremists should be treated.

That was the Milligramsam on http://www.thejc.com/users/joe-millis , or the one on http://www.thejc.com/users/joemillis ?

That's exactly how one-state extremists should be treated.

You mean simonsam ?

Her opinions about one state or two states are nothing to do with this, Millis. Again, please refrain from calling people "extremist" because you don't agree with their politics.

Her comments were extremely anti-Semitic and racist, and THAT is why she deserves condemnation and exclusion from public life.

Well Joe, a lot of people think like Helen Thomas and seem to believe that all Jews come from Europe. Total ignorance.

And as a journalist with a Lebanese background she should know better.

But I don't get your comment linking with one-state extremists - was she proposing this? Or is this a new topic to bring onto this thread?

Yvetta

The only thing she is suffering from is a healthy dose of antisemitism.
Antisemites come in various hues . Most are no more then a background noise and like weeds rise up and die down . Occasionally one rises up to do terrible harm.

Helen Thomas is one of the former. An irritant and an irrelevance . Her legacy is hate and not much more . She will be less then a footnote and her final resting place soon forgotten and untended.

The people that she so hates will continue to thrive and their contribution to every field of human endeavour will remain unsurpassed .

Basically, Kahina, Thomas is a one-stater because she wants Jews to go back whence she believes they came. Thomas got her comeuppance so I wouldn't make a big deal out of her.

Pryor, one-staters aren't extremists? Hmmm...I believe I will continue to say I'll say what I think irrespective of the diktats of this person or another.

No. People that blow up schools or buses or throw Molotov cocktails at cars driving kids to school are extremists. People that have their own ideas about solving the world's problems are not. Even if you don't like those ideas.

To label people whose views you disagree with "extremist" is a form of fascism. That doesn't make you an extremist by the way, unless you take to physically attacking people who hold such views (or supporting those that do), but it DOES make you a bigot.

Pryor, one-staters are extremists because their remedy means the end of Israel. They are the true bigots. Would you not say that the Nazis were extremists because they "had their own ideas about solving" what they saw as "the world's problems?" And before anyone gets all self-righteous, I am emphatically not saying that one-staters, Pryor or anyone else here on this blog is a Nazi. Is that clear?

Pryor, one-staters are extremists because their remedy means the end of Israel.

Can you offer any evidence for this statement, or is it just based on your fantasies about how many children people are going to have in 20 years time?

They are the true bigots.

Bigot (noun):

A person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

Since it is you that is labelling people who hold differing opinions to yourself as "extremist", I think you need to take a good look in the mirror.

Would you not say that the Nazis were extremists because they "had their own ideas about solving" what they saw as "the world's problems?"

Your argument is thus: Nazis were extremists (of course I will agree with this statement) therefore anyone who tries to think about the world in a slightly different way is also an extremist and comparable to Nazis. This is a non-sequitur and it is downright offensive.

Pryor, one-staters on the Palestinian side believe there is no room for Israel. One-staters on the Israeli side fail to realise that at present between the River and the Sea, there are more non-Jews than Jews and that these non-Jews will gain international support for one-person, one-vote, ergo the end of Israel. Denying them the one-person,one-vote, by the way, means that Israel ceases to be a Jewish democracy and that is a betrayal of Zionism and also the end of Israel.
It was you who said that "People that have their own ideas about solving the world's problems are not" [extremist]. I raised the question "Would you not say that the Nazis were extremists because they "had their own ideas about solving" what they saw as "the world's problems?"
I knew someone would take [manufactured] offence. I didn't think it would be you. Ho-hum

The only one-stater I know on the Israeli side are lefties, by the way. On the Arab side, just plain antisemites.

And since the 'Palestinians' already have one state, they are in fact two-staters.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/02/18/2743034/helen-thomas-jews-wer...

Thomas ignorance of the persecution of Jews exposed.

I doubt that it's ignorance - more likely, she knows that it's mendacious propaganda.