Helen Thomas: White House, Congress controlled by Zionists

Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas, detailed her views on Zionist control - saying that American institutions and foreign policy objectives are dominated by Jewish interests.

Speaking publicly in Dearborn, Michigan on Thursday, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas defended the comments that led to her immediate resignation from Hearst News Service in June. “I can call a president of the United States anything in the book, but I can’t touch Israel, which has Jewish-only roads in the West Bank,” Thomas said, according to the Detroit Free Press. “No American would tolerate that — white-only roads.” “Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question, in my opinion,” she said. “They put their money where their mouth is. We’re being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.” Thomas, 90 years old, had been a White House correspondent for 50 years - and had been a columnist with Hearst for 10 years. She began her journalism career in 1943, and she was the first woman to conclude a presidential news conference with the traditional phrase "Thank you, Mr. President." Thomas has received numerous accolades and recognitions, and traveled the world with Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. In May, she had suggested that Israeli's "get the hell out of Palestine" and "go home" to Germany and Poland. Her comments were immediately amplified across the web and resulted in a firestorm of criticisms that led to her resignation in June. “Ms. Thomas repeated the anti-Semitic stereotypes that have been used for more than a century to incite hatred of Jews. Her comments should be condemned by all people who oppose bigotry,” Robert Cohen, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit, told the Detroit Free Press.