Wayne State Univ. Suspends Helen Thomas Diversity Award After Offensive Comments
Months removed from the anti-Semetic comments that lost her her front row seat at White House press briefings, Helen Thomas‘s continued remarks on the matter have lost her yet another honor– an award given to undergraduates at Wayne State Univeristy in Detroit in her honor, which has now lost its name.
According to the AP, the University announced today the award will no long be available, effective immediately:
Wayne State University says it’ll no longer offer the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity Award, citing recent comments made by the longtime journalist.
In a statement Friday, the Detroit school says it “encourages free speech and open dialogue,” but strongly condemns what it says are “anti-Semitic remarks” made by Thomas on Thursday. According to The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, the Wayne State alumna said during a speech in Dearborn that Congress, the White House, Hollywood and Wall Street are owned by “Zionists.”
The remarks that lost her this award, however, are not the ones that lost her her longtime job– these were comments made last Thursday that “Congress, the White House and Hollywood, Wall Street are owned by the Zionists.” Thomas, who is 90 years old, went from beloved icon to conflicted media figure almost overnight when the aforementioned video of her telling Jewish Americans to “go home” (to Poland) went viral online.
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