The naked truth about Helen Thomas in Playboy

The April Issue of Playboy features Helen Thomas. I assure you that Thomas’ appearance is this month’s Playboy interview is offensive and obscene without any pictorials involved.

Thomas' interview is disgusting. It’s totally clear that the former dean of the White House press corps does not understand why she’s become a pariah, and that her hurtful words are not just anti-Israel but anti-Semitic.

Last year Thomas chose Jewish Heritage Day at the White House to tell, the now Jewish Star Publisher, David Nesenoff, “tell them [Jews in Israel] to go back to Germany and Poland.” Rabbi Nesenoff was interviewing Thomas on camera and the resulting video was soon dominating the Internet and mainstream media resulting in her forced “retirement.” Not widely publicized, since that spring afternoon at the White House, is the spewed venom that makes her statements to Rabbi Nesenoff seem almost tame.

In December, she spoke at a Muslim tolerance conference in Michigan and said: "Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is…We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.”

It was as if Thomas was reading directly from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which preaches that rich Jews control the world. In the Playboy interview, she was just as vile as she was in Dearborn, when asked if she had personal antipathy toward Jews: “They’ve always had the heart for others but not for Arabs, for some reason. I’m not anti-Jewish; I’m anti-Zionist. I am anti-Israel taking what doesn’t belong to it. If you have a home and you’re kicked out of that home, you don’t come and kick someone else out. Anti-Semite? The Israelis are not even Semites! They’re Europeans, and they’ve come from somewhere else. But even if they were Semites, they would still have no right to usurp other people’s land.”

Along with claiming that as a people Jews have always hated Arabs, she ignores that Jews have lived in the Holy Land without interruption since Joshua won that little skirmish in Jericho almost 3,600 years ago. Thomas also repeats the anti-Semitic meme of Louis Farrakhan that today’s Jews are not the real Jews, but rather they are descended from Europeans who converted to Judaism centuries ago.

“Why do they think they’re so deserving?” Thomas continued. “The slaughter of Jews stopped with World War II..... But they were liberated since then. And yet they carry on the victimization. American people do not know that the Israeli lobbyists have intimidated them into believing every Jew is a persecuted victim forever—while they are victimizing Palestinians.”

Make no mistake about it, like most haters, when Thomas says Israeli lobbyists, she means Jews. She believes that those whiny Jews are still "kvetching" about the Holocaust. And as for victimization, one only need to look at the plight of the persecuted Soviet Jews, or 63 years of Arab terrorist attacks against Israeli Jews. Jews have never asked to be victims, as Tevya said in Fiddler on the Roof following the pogrom, which destroyed his daughter’s wedding, "Lord I know we are the chosen people, but once in a while, chose someone else."

Later in the interview Thomas goes back to the “Protocols” script when the interviewer asked if Thomas believed there is a secret Jewish conspiracy at work in this country. “Not a secret. It’s very open…Power over the White House, power over Congress…Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies, which are funded by wealthy supporters, including those from Hollywood. Same thing with the financial markets. There’s total control.”

The Playboy interview reminds us that its time for the media to strip Thomas down for what she is. She was not fired for anti-Israel comments. Helen Thomas is filled with the world’s oldest hatred, anti-Semitism.