Esteemed White House Reporter Helen Thomas tells Joy Behar “Jews are NOT Semites, most came from Europe”

Helen Thomas appeared on CNN with Joy Behar to educate her on Jews and the Middle East

Joy Behar just got a lesson in global politics from one of America’s wisest and most experienced journalists.   Ms. Behar is a wonderful comedian and show host.   What makes her successful is that she’s really just like you and me.

She’s trying to find the answers and reach out.  And so no one can blame her or any of us for that matter if we think that Semites are Jews.   In the USA, that’s what we’ve been conditioned to know.  And boy were we wrong.

Helen Thomas, an Arab American, made it clear that she’s a Semite and not Jewish.  How can that be right?   Have we been duped?

Let’s take a longer look at what a “semite” actually is…..

“Anti-Semite” slogan used by American Corporate Media to Confuse U.S. Public

After much research, I have found that the phrase “Anti-Semite” is being misused primarily in the USA and causing us harm as we debate the issues concerning U.S. Middle East Policy and Israel.

I have found Semitic peoples are Arabs too and if we mean to charge another with being “anti-Israel” or “anti-Jewish”, the use of the phrase “Anti-Semitic” is very confusing as it makes it seem that we are charging the person with being Anti-Arab.  I don’t’ think that’s the intent, is it?

Semite refers to a language family and culture of largely Middle Eastern origin, from Samaria, now called the Semitic Culture and languages. This family includes the ancient and modern forms of Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Ge’ez, Hebrew, Maltese, Phoenician, Tigre, and Tigrinya among others.  As language studies are interwoven with cultural studies, the term also came to describe the extended cultures and ethnicities, as well as the history of these varied peoples as associated by close geographic and linguistic distribution.

In the USA, the Zionist Political Movement has successfully connected the phrase “Anti-Semitic” to being anti-Israel and/or anti-Jewish.  Successful marketing?  You betcha!

Incorrect and doing harm to our intellectual and genuine debate?  Absolutely!  We need to adjust for the sake of everyone so the debate is very clear.

In lieu;

1. If you aim to call out another as an anti-Israel, country, please consider calling them “anti-Israel” and make it clear.
2. If you feel, the person is a bigot and is “anti-Jewish”, make sure to call them “anti-Jewish” so that it’s clear.
3. Please use the phrase “anti-Semitic” if you are describing someone who is anti-Middle Eastern including but not limited to Arab peoples

Finally, as you make your case forward, please consider that;

• Not all Jews are Zionists
• Not all Zionists are Jews
• Zionism is NOT a religion but a political movement

With knowledge and correct phrasing, I strongly encourage all to make their cases forward and let’s together figure out what’s in the best interests of humanity and the global citizenry.

In 2011, it’s time we take a longer look at our foreign policy in the Middle East.  Are we on the wrong side of history?  Is our moral compass out of whack?  Shouldn’t we be standing both by those lost in World War II but also against the occupation, repression, concentration camps in Gaza, and more…..

Our United States is at a moral crossroads.  Who are we and what do we stand for?  These are questions we are being forced to answer.

Finally, Ms. Thomas raises some outstanding issues on “occupation” and “imperial” aggression by Americans and Europeans who’ve pushed their way into the lands of Palestine deplacing the peoples there and, in their places, putting them in concentraction camps like HEBRON and GAZA, holed up and locked in like sardines.

Why are there still settlements going on in Palestine?

Moreover, Ms. Thomas said it right, you can call the U.S. President any name in the book, but if you go after Israel, you’re screwed.  That said it all.  And every American should be up in arms about that true statement.  It’s one thing to stand with those lost in World War II but it’s another to serve masters 8000 miles away in a land far far away.

This is America 2011 and I am wondering if my fellow Americans will muster the strength to rid ourselves of this Zionist lobby menace that has inflicted its harm on the world and us.  When will this lobbyist dictatorship fall?

Does anyone have the phone number of that Wael guy in Egypt who worked for Google and got rid of Mubarek?  Maybe he can come over and help us learn how to topple this lobby dictatoriship.

Or, at least, maybe it’s time for Arab Americans to sign a petition simply calling themselves rightfully, SEMITES and get it signed by the U.S. Congress recognizing the Americans from those lands as Semites so that we can take one of the Zionist lobby’s immoral and misrepresented marketing tools away from them.

So let’s stop the ignorant use of the phrase “You’re an Anti-Semite” made so famous by Uncle Leo on the Seinfeld show.   Funny?  Yes!  Incorrect and harmful, even more so!

So if Zionists have a case, let them present it honestly and without misrepresentation.    I mean we ought to have empathy for those lost in World War II but, in 2011, we must have empathy for those who are alive and in bondage in Palestine.  That’s moral too!

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Johnny Punish founded VT in 2004.  After 20 years at the helm, he “retired” from the daily operations in late 2023 passing the ball over to the new owner of VT, Chief Justin Time.   He now writes for VT as “Writer Emeritus”.  He is also a global citizen eco-activist, visionary, musician, artist, entertainer, businessman, investor, life coach, podcast host, and syndicated columnist.  

Punish is an ethnically cleansed Palestinian-American whose maternal family was evicted from their home in Haifa, Palestine in 1948 by Irgun; a Euro-Zionist Settler Terrorist Group.  The family became part of the over 1,000,000 Palestinians who are Al-Nakba refugees (The Catastrophe).  The family fled to Beirut Lebanon for 13 years eventually emigrating to the USA in 1961 via a Brasilian passport obtained by his Palestinian Brasilian-born grandmother (In the early 1900s, the family was sent to Sao Paolo Brasil as guest workers in the mining industry.  Punish’s father is Italian-American from New York City.  Punish’s paternal great-grandparents emigrated to the USA from Naples Italy and Marineo in Sicily in the 1890s.  Punish was born in the Bronx, New York in 1963.

Punish was educated at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (1980-81) and California State University Fullerton (1981-1984) with studies in accounting and business. Before the “internets” had been invented, he owned and ran (5) national newspapers in the United States of America from 1987-1998.  From 2004 to 2023, he owned and managed VT Foreign Policy retiring at the end of 2023.

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