Posted on 12/03/2010 2:08:02 PM PST by JimWayne
“As a public university, Wayne State encourages free speech and open dialogue, and respects diverse viewpoints,” the statement said. “However, the university strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas during a conference yesterday.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thesouthend.wayne.edu ...
At least somebody has some backbone
Wayne State?
Which one of the 50 is Wayne? Is it near Kansas somewhere?
That is modern Anti-Semitic boilerplate! I guess she is fully on board with it and figures she has nothing to lose.
Wayne State is located in Detroit Michigan.
Here’s Wikipedia’s entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_State_University
Bravo!
I noticed that your link does not take me to The Onion where this is obviously a fake story.
No University in the US knows what Anti-Semetism is.
/ sarc
Bravo to these academics who condemmed this bigot.
Link has been pulled...
No Juice..No Peace.
OMG.. a glimmer of sanity in detroit.
Hahahahahahahahahaha
How embarrassing.
The interesting thing about senility is that it often turns off the filter. The secret thoughts that guided her for a lifetime now flow freely.
Keep the Award, just change the name of it to someone more deserving/
Almost anyone will do./
Still posted at a different source.
Wayne State cuts Helen Thomas award over anti-Semitic remarks
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Wayne State University is cutting ties with former White House correspondent Helen Thomas in the wake of anti-Semitic remarks she made during an appearance in Dearborn Thursday.
In a statement, the university said it was pulling the diversity award it gives out in her name, saying:
“As a public university, Wayne State encourages free speech and open dialogue, and respects diverse viewpoints. However, the university strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas during a conference yesterday. As a result of these remarks, Wayne State will no longer offer the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award.”
During her appearance, Thomas made several anti-Semitic remarks, including criticizing Israel because of “Jewish-only roads in West Bank” saying no American would tolerate “white-only roads.” She also said that U.S. interests are controlled by Zionist “propagandists against Arabs.”
The 90-year-old Thomas resigned from her position as the White House columnist for Hearst Newspaper in June after she was blasted for calling on Israelis to get “out of Palestine.” She graduated from Wayne State in 1942 when it was known as Wayne University.
There’s also a photo posted there. http://media2.wxyz.com//photo/2010/06/07/helenthomas1_20100607145530_320_240.JPG
Wow, that was quick, but you can copy-paste what I excerpted into Google and you will see that the result shows a link to the website.
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