Journalist Helen Thomas Hired to Write for Newspaper in Virginia

...and you could say Muslims occupied "Palestine" from the previous Jewish inhabitants. Would she have told THEM to get out and go back home if Israel had never been created? Probably not. Why? Because she's from Lebanon and biased. And yes, you could say that about everyone. We don't live in a fairytale world with no borders. Reality is what it is. It's Israel now, she needs to get over it.

WE SHOULD HONOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH. HELEN THOMAS IS WELL DESERVING A HIGH HONOR AWARD FOR HER WORK .

If Helen Thomas isn't a bigot, then who is? Does she have any idea who built Jerusalem? When is Turkey going to give back Constantinople? It's occupied land!

Helen Thomas should not be kicked to the curb! She has never been known to hide from controversy. This should not define her career. I'm proud of her. Some of you are too young to remember her accomplishments.

OK folks, I think you're all missing the point. As a long time Jewish progressive, I find this just another example of the difficulty that Jewish progressives find themselves in today, vis a vis their relationship with the rest of the progressive movement. That is, while we agree with all (most of all) other progressives on all (most) other issues, we find it increasingly difficult to stand with other progressives given the overt hostility, and dare I say it, anti-semitism shown by a large portion of the progressive left. This was brought home to me during the pre-Iraq peace marches, when I found myself becoming more and more disgusted by the signs and slogans surrounding me put up by ANSWER and their ilk. While the progressive left purports to believe in the "big tent" theory, they are in fact committed to pushing their jewish brethren out of the tent. They claim they are not anti-semitic, only anti-Israel, but as a progressive Jew who has walked among them on many occassions, it is clear that they are in fact anti-semitic. And getting back to Helen Thomas, it pains me to have to acknowledge that someone I have admired for so long has suddenly shown her true anti-semitic colors. And no amount of sugar coating by my "progressive" friends will explain away this fact.

Do they have a Lebanese language newspaper in Virginia ?
Who else would hire her?

It seems to me that Helen Thomas is being persecuted for saying Jews should leave Israel. Doesn't she have the constitutional right to say this? It seems to me
she is being persecuted for not being a Zionist.

People over 50 can't find jobs but a 90 year old can? Amazing.