Helen Thomas' School Scraps Award Over Anti-Semtic Remark

CNN reports that the "alma mater of journalist Helen Thomas will not bestow an award that had been given in her name, making the decision after the 90-year-old scribe made more controversial comments about Jewish people. Wayne State University, the Detroit, Michigan, institution that Thomas graduated from in 1942, said in a statement Friday that the school will no longer give out the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award." CNN reports that according "to the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, she said, 'Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists. No question.'" As is well known, "Thomas abrupty retired earlier this year from her position as a White House columnist for the Hearst media chain after a YouTube video circulated in which she told a rabbi that Israel should 'get the hell out of Palestine.' She also said Jewish people should leave Israel and go home to 'Poland, Germany ... and America and everywhere else.'" Tweet