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Veteran Reporter Helen Thomas Resigns For Anti-Semitic Remarks

International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, 7 Jun 2010

Helen Thomas, the dean of White House correspondents, will quit her post as a Hearst newspaper columnist and finally retire after suggesting last week that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go back home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else."

Her remarks came in an impromptu interview with Rabbi David Nesenoff outside a White House gathering to mark Jewish Heritage Week on May 27.

The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Thomas has been on the daily White House beat for decades, first as a reporter for the UPI, then the Associated Press, and more recently as a columnist for the Hearst newspaper syndicate.

Asked by Rabbi Nesenoff if she had any comments on Israel, Thomas responded, "Tell ‘em to get the hell out of Palestine... Remember, these people [the Arabs] are occupied and it’s their land... They [the Jews] can go home... [to] Poland, Germany... and America and everywhere else."

Thomas has since posted a half-hearted apology on her personal Web site.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called Thomas' comments "offensive and reprehensible."

Lanny J. Davis, a former special counsel and White House spokesman for President Bill Clinton, compared Thomas’s outburst to calling for "all blacks to go back to Africa."