THAT ALWAYS FETID WAR CRY--IMMIGRANTS GO HOME:

Columnist denounced (Howard Kurtz, 6/06/10, Washington Post)

Helen Thomas has sparked a furor by declaring that Jews should abandon Israel. In a video posted last week on a site called RabbiLIVE.com, founded by a Long Island rabbi, the Hearst Newspapers columnist, who's covered the White House seemingly forever, tells an unidentified interviewer that Israelis should "get the hell out of Palestine."

Asked where they should go, Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, says: "Go home. Poland. Germany. And America and everywhere else."

In a statement, B'nai B'rith President Dennis Glick calls Thomas's remarks "contemptible," saying: "Her distortion of historical reality is astonishing. Her call for Jews to return to Poland and Germany -- site of the Nazi genocide, the worst genocide in modern history -- is beyond offensive."

Former Bush White House spokesman Ari Fleischertold me that "Hearst should let her go. She should not get a pass for saying something so terrible and offensive."

Former Clinton White House aide Lanny Davis accused Thomas of "an anti-Semitic rant" and asked whether the White House Correspondents Association would yank her credentials "if she had asked all blacks to go back to Africa."