Instead of celebrating journalistic integrity, the media – controlled
by Zionists in America – refuse to condone any criticism of Israel.
When Helen Thomas, diva of the White House press corps, was asked by a
rabbi if she had any comment about Israel, she replied honestly: "Tell
them to get the hell out of Palestine." She paid dearly for being forthright, saying that the Palestinians are
"occupied" and that the Jews should "Go home" – to Germany, Poland,
America and "everywhere else".
In a later interview with radio host Danny Schechter, Helen revealed that for 50 years “she censored herself as a reporter”. Think about how many otherwise honest, knowledgeable yet restrained
reporters and TV anchors have worn the same albatross around their
necks.
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Helen Thomas's “outcry embodies a half century of frustration
and mental occupation that Arab Americans feel as their voices of
historical truth is pilloried, discredited, and dismissed as either
delusional or anti-Semitic.”
Dr Diane Shammas, Lecturer in American Studies and Ethnicity | |
Widely-respected MSNBC commentators like Keith Olbermann, Rachael
Maddow and Ed Schultz are brilliant and informed. They can't possibly
have missed the plight of the Palestinians.
Like Helen Thomas, they have had to censor themselves. Anyone listening
to these commentators' analyses of major issues would know that they
could not possibly be ignorant of the truth.
A terribly sad reality rears its ugly head with the realization that
men and women of integrity otherwise have been forced to cheat – to
pretend to blind themselves in order to preserve their jobs.
Imagine the three that I mentioned at MSNBC with their heads on the
bodies of monkeys labelled “see no evil", "hear no evil" and "speak no
evil".
Unlike the chimps with limited mentality, these media giants must know
that they wear blinders, ear plugs and muzzles to avoid truths which
they hold so important when it comes to other issues
Dr Diane Shammas, lecturer in American Studies and Ethnicity, says,
"More than being oppositional, Thomas’s comments reflect an accumulative
anger and ire at an America that has not only vilified Arab Americans
in their media and immigration laws for over a century, but also with a
US foreign policy that for over 60 years biases Israel and is complicit
in perpetuating the oppression against the Palestinians."
Why did Helen blurt out the comment that led to her forced resignation
from the White House Press Corps for Hearst papers? What did she feel
that moved her to do what other commentators know is right but have been
terrified to say?
Dr Shammas says that "her [Helen Thomas's] outcry embodies a half
century of frustration and mental occupation that Arab Americans feel as
their voices of historical truth is pilloried, discredited, and
dismissed as either delusional or anti-Semitic."
Ironically, as Dr Shammas reports, "while defending Helen Thomas’s
freedom of speech, the Society for Professional Journalists deems her
remarks as “inappropriate and offensive”.
Inappropriate? The only thing inappropriate was that Thomas was forced out of her job by silencer shills!
Offensive? Only to those who have been brainwashed by Israeli
propaganda. Thomas’s journalistic critics silently admit to
brainwashing. Either that or they're utterly dishonest.
Dr Shammas posed the right question when she asked "Does our country’s
unwavering allegiance to the Zionist ideology irrevocably trump and
excoriate any truth-telling of Palestinian suffering?"
William Shanley, who is making a film about Helen’s career, commented:
Pathetic. America has become a country in which a thief is on the cover of Time Magazine,
the Golden Rule is under the boot of empire, and the truth about the
illegal occupation of Palestine, the theft of land and the mass
incarceration of its people, cannot pass lips.
