Helen Thomas: Jews Back to Poland, Germany

White House Correspondent Helen Thomas makes herself perfectly clear. She thinks Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine” and go back to Poland, Germany, America “and everywhere else.”

H/t: Solomonia

UPDATE 2:38, June 4, 2010: Helen Thomas is a regular contributor to Liberal Opinion Week. According to the publication’s website, she shares a masthead with a number of prominent journalists in the United States. These journalists include Maureen Dowd, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Kristof and Derrick Jackson. CAMERA has sent emails to these writers asking if it is appropriate for them to share a masthead with a journalist who makes such hostile comments. CAMERA has also left a message with the publication itself.

CAMERA will provide updates on any responses recieved.

Second Update 5:23 p.m., June 4, 2010: CAMERA has submitted a query to the White House Correspondents’ Association about Helen Thomas’ comments. The text of this query can be seen after the jump.

Third Update, 10:20 p.m., June 4, 2010: According to FoxNews, Helen Thomas has apologized for her comments.

Below is the text of CAMERA’s email to WHCA.

To: Julia Whiston, Executive Director

From: Dexter Van Zile, Media Analyst, CAMERA

RE: A Query About Helen Thomas

As you may or may not know, Helen Thomas of the White House press corps has recently made some ra,er egregious remarks about Jews going back to Europe. She made them on camera and the video is available here:

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2010/06/helen_thomas_yid_get_out_of_pa.html

Will the WHCA be issuing a statement in response to these comments?

Will the WHCA initiate proceedings to suspend her membership in the WHCA or to expel her from the organization?

To Snapshot readers: The White House Correspondents’ Association’s by-laws state include the following article:

Suspension of Members

The Executive Board shall have power to suspend or expel any member of this Association for due cause, as may be determined in the judgment of the Executive Board, provided that written notice of the consideration of such action, together with a statement of alleged causes, shall be given the member concerned thirty (30) days prior to the meeting of the Executive Board and further provided that a hearing shall be granted such member, if the member shall so desire; and further provided that the temporary suspension of a member may be ordered by a majority vote of all members of the Executive Board, but that expulsion shall not be ordered except upon the approval of two-thirds of the full Executive Board; and provided further that any member so expelled by the Executive Board shall have the right to appeal to the full body of membership at the next succeeding Annual Meeting of the Association, in which case a majority vote of regular members present and voting shall be recognized as the final decision of the Association.