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Helen Thomas Spurned By WHCA, Loved By PLO

Despite having been spurned by the White House Correspondents Association, Helen Thomas still feels Palestinian love. That's because the PLO's Washington delegation…

By April 03, 2012
Helen Thomas Spurned By WHCA, Loved By PLO
Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas

Despite having been spurned by the White House Correspondents Association, Helen Thomas still feels Palestinian love.

That’s because the PLO’s Washington delegation honored Thomas with its own journalism award.

The 91 year-old journalism veteran was forced out of her position at Hearst Newspapers two years ago for saying Jews should get the hell out of Palestine.

What took the PLO so long?

(Image of Thomas via YouTube/SuccessIntheCityTV)

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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