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.
“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.”
Hardcore socialists hide behind Judaism as a way of judging any complaints or criticism as being anti-semitic.
There is no problem “Jewish-American” society but with the subversives who hide behind it.
IMHO
But we know that Helen Thomas is not anti-Semitic because, after all, she told us so. She’s just...under-appreciated. </sarcasm>
Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!
The word Semite derives from the Biblical descendants of Noah's son, Shem, who were identified in the Bible with Arabs. The group of languages related to Arabic, including Hebrew, came to be called Semitic during the 19th Century. When eruptions of Jew-hatred surfaced in the west in the 19th Century, (the malady is not confined to any particular century) the only identifiable population of Semites living in the west were Jews, so the term antisemitism is understood to mean Jew Hatred.
Jew-hatred really got the bit in its teeth with the Third Reich and its manifestation there is invariably referred to as antisemitism. Since the Nazis made common cause with Arabs when it served their purposes, Nazi antisemitism cannot by any stretch be construed to extend to Arabs.
> The Face That Defies Entropy
For me, it’s the face that DEFINES Entropy.
Or is it Atrophy?
Perhaps both.
Helen Thomas in 1st place, Oliver Stone, Mahatir Mohammad, and Rick Sanchez among others on list.Thanks Uncle Miltie.
I know, but somehow it is an insult to swine..
You will be turned to stone after gazing, let alone kissing the gorgon!
Abortion.
The price one pays for immortality. It’s better than the price paid by Faustus, I suppose.
Alas, you must be very lonesome!
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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But Launched a Thousand Lunches.
Christopher Marlowe! I love that work.
At least they cropped out the snakes!!!!
Marlowe never looked up the visage of Sweet Helen Thomas, else he might have decided to be plumber.
Oh the inanity!
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