Posted on 12/18/2010 10:30:18 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
Simon Wiesenthal Center puts Helen Thomas in 1st place, Oliver Stone, Mahatir Mohammad, and Rick Sanchez among others on list.
A Jewish group has released a list of “top ten anti-Semitic slurs of 2010.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Friday released a list of anti-Semitic quotes made over the past year which it compiled in pecking order.
Top of the list was Helen Thomas, the 90-year-old journalist who retired earlier this year after she told a rabbi at a White House reception that “Jews should get the hell out of Palestine.”
“They should go home to Poland, Germany, America and everywhere else,” she told him.
Director Oliver Stone came second with his remark on the alleged misportrayal of Hitler’s role in history.
“Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it’s been used cheaply,” said the director in January. “He’s the product of a series of actions. It’s cause and effect.”
Other personalities named by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in its list include former Malaysian Premier Mahatir Mohammad; Al-Mutawakil Taha, Deputy Minister of Information for the Palestinian Authority, and Rick Sanchez, former CNN correspondent.
According to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the list illustrates a rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric which it says is becoming increasingly prevalent.
“Never before, in recent memory, has the Simon Wiesenthal Center seen such a proliferation of anti-Semitism going mainstream,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Center adding that “Our list of top ten anti-Semitic slurs runs the gamut of well-known personalities including journalists, government officials, celebrities, a prominent film director, and academics.”
Making anti-Semitic remarks in 2010, however, is not without repercussions. Thomas retired following her slur, Sanchez lost his job and Stone had to apologize to the Anti-Defamation League twice, which accepted his apology on both occasions.
Exactly my reaction
The biggest insult is posting her FACE! I’M BLIND
Ditto that; and I cannot fathom ( amongst so many other things ).
Poor Mel Gibson - snubbed by the critics again.
Another win for crazy Helen!
I though Glenn Beck was anti-Semitic....?
Should he be #1 for what the said about George Soros???
Oh that is what the SPLC wants you to think.
Somehow, after my eyeballs got whiplash, the thought “lipstick on a pig” came to mind!
“The Face That Sank A Thousand Ships”!
As I have already said in an ongoing thread;
Given that left wing Jewish Americans have posed and continue to pose more of a threat to conservative American values and society than Muslims ever have and American Jews were involved in anti-American terrorism long before Muslims were I am often mystified why American conservatives are always so concerned about their fate.
At what point do conservatives stop being polite and start asking some very hard questions about the subversive political beliefs that are endemic within Jewish American society? After all conservatives never have any problem questioning the loyalty of US Muslims even though that group have actually done very little damage to American society.
Just for the record I support the state of Israel and loathe anti-Semitism.
A face to match her heart.
And the #1 slur against all humankind goes to Uncle Miltie!
I know beauty is only skin-deep, but DAY-UMM! That Helen Thomas ugly goes plumb to the bone!
Lebanon?
Ahhhh, “victimization”. The crutch some people need to feel “special”.
“Lipstick on a pig”, how appropriate.
The Face That Defies Entropy
Don’t ever, never do that again. /s
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