Posted on 11/21/2010 3:06:16 PM PST by presidio9
Helen Thomas is a hero. For more than 57 years, she has stood up to all forms of discrimination. First as a woman journalist in a man's world. Second as a fiercely objective journalist who questioned every President From Eisenhower to Obama with the same principles of justice, objectivity and balance. And Third, she is a hero because she has stood up to the onslaught of ugly name-calling from extremists in the American Jewish Community who are not happy kicking Palestinians out of Palestine, they want to kick them out of America, too.
Tonight (Thursday Nov. 18) in Washington DC, Thomas will receive among many honors the Dr. M.T. Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award from the National Arab American Journalists Association and ADC (the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee). The award was established in 1999 to honor the work of journalists who have stood up to hatred, fear mongering, defamation and slander because of their work. It is presented to journalists who have shown courage in speaking and writing the truth in the face of overwhelming public anger.
It is so easy for many mainstream American journalists to remain silent, rather than to expose the hypocrisies in American society, especially after the terrorism of Sept. 11, 2001. It is easy because the hatred and racism against Arabs and Muslims in America has reached an unprecedented height. Arabs and Muslims are easy prey for racists and bigots because the American public is so uneducated about truth and accuracy and they are fed a constant stream of lies from the mainstream American media.
And those Arabs and Muslims who dare to challenge the lies in the coverage of the rights of the Palestinian people are even easier to target because on top of the bigots and racists who attack Arabs and Muslims, American Jews often also join in the assaults against morality and ethics.
You can read the blog called Elder of Ziyon, an often racistly anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate site to see this hypocrisy at work. (Click here to read their most recent hateful post.)
On the one hand, the writer argues that Helen Thomas did not say that Jews should get out of the occupied territory, making the precision of the words their strongest case. And then they hypocritically violate principle, morality and even truth, arguing that Helen Thomas said that Jews should get out of Israel. The fact is Helen Thomas NEVER used the word "Jews." She was asked by a racist rabbi what Israelis should do and she said "Get the hell out of Palestine."
The most outrageous example of bigotry and racist hate comes from Morton Klein, the head of the Zionist Organization of America. His history of racism and bigotry is shameful. Klein could care less about the truth. He is more concerned with protecting a foreign country rather than defending Americans from bigotry and racism. Klein prefers to defend Israel and he hates Helen Thomas for the very reason she deserves to be honored tonight by the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC, www.ADC.org)and the National Arab American Journalists Association (www.NAAJA-US.com).
More than any other journalist, Helen Thomas was not afraid to challenge the hypocrisies and lies about Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims. She often asked the tough questions of Presidents exposing the hypocrisies of American Foreign policy that sacrificed truth and ethics for political bias towards one foreign country called Israel. And her colleagues, who rarely reported on her courageous challenges, shouted her down with their ugly silence and unprofessional and unjournalistic conduct.
NAAJA salutes Helen Thomas and American Arabs who refuse to be shouted down by bigots, demagogues and hatemongers like Morton Klein and others all because they have DARED to challenge the political polices of a foreign government, Israel.
No pictures! I just ate.
When an organization give someone like Helen Thomas, who has been over the hill for 56 years, they are just publicly declaring their own bankruptcy. IMHO
Wonder if she has to fly to pick up her award. ;)
If so, she’ll wear her muzzi garb.
then maybe looking for a ‘bailout’?
Lucky for you I have been mostly away from FR for a couple of months, and suddenly I can’t remember how to post pictures. My teens and 20’s continue to haunt me.
The pictures I had ready were one of the author & one of HT & Barry hugging each other and mugging for the camera.
lol. I’m sure the old cow will be happy to accept an award from this group railing against “American Jews”.
OMG I thought pics would be bad! I have an image of Osamabama hugging Helen Thomas burned into my mind now! *Sigh* another sleepless night.
Hey, look there, presidio9. TWO muzzie-loving, Jew hating, anti-Americans in one photo!!
The stew I had for dinner tastes different the second time going down......curious.
What a cute little cupcake.
Incidently, Helen got herself canned for antisemitism in July. At the time, our lame duck president told the Today Show called her “out of line” and “insensitve” and said that “It was the right thing to do.”
The photo was taken on her Birthday, August 4, 2010. Presumably in the White House Briefing Room. So will somebody from the Obama Admistration pleas explain to me why our freqently exausted and in need of a vacation CIC seems so fond of her? And what the heck is Major Garett doing in the seat closest to her and having such a great time?
...a fiercely objective journalist who questioned every President From Eisenhower to Obama with the same principles of justice, objectivity and balance.IOW, this award is like Zero's nobel. Thanks presidio9. Was this in Dearborn?
Washington
Pardon me, presidio9, when I saw the headline, the first thing I thought of was Eddie Murphy singing, “Unce, tice, fee tines a mehdi.” ;)
Man, is this article BS.
In keeping with the holiday spirit ...
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