The rabbi who interviewed Helen Thomas

Roger Friedman interviewed the rabbi who got Helen Thomas on video telling Jews to “get the hell out of Palestine.” In case Helen tries to wiggle her way out of her current trouble by pretendig she was the victim of attack journalist, here’s what happened:

Rabbi David Nesenoff is a journalist and filmmaker from Long Island who has his advanced degree from the Jewish Theological Seminar. He went to the White House on May 27th with his 17 year old son and the son’s 18 year old friend on a press pass. Both boys as well as the Rabbi wore yarmulkes and tsi-zit. They were obviously religious Jews.

And that’s what shocked Nesenoff when Helen Thomas told him — as he filmed her on his Flip camera– the Jews should “get the hell out” of Israel and go “home” to Poland or Germany–places they’d been tortured and killed in, and escaped from during the Holocaust.

“There’s anti-Semitism in the world,” Nesenoff told me. “And it’s sitting a foot from the president.”

Rabbi Nesenoff will be on Fox and Friends this morning between 8 and 9, and promises to have more on his website and some kind of announcement tomorrow. Helen Thomas has been dropped by her agency, and the calls for her resignation are growing. To those who say we should leave her there now that her anti-Semitism is on display for all to see, I have two words for you: Pat Buchanan. Neither of them should be earning a penny from the news media, let alone making their major livelihood from it. A columnist with, say, known prejudices against black Americans would find work nowhere but the neo-Nazi media. Buchanan and Thomas are now openly anti-Semitic. Both should be fired. NBC should never have Buchanan on for another second, let alone as a regular analyst. And shame on Fox for having him as well.

It just goes to show you: No one ever goes broke attacking the Jews, no matter how loudly they proclaim that you’re not allowed to do so. And please—criticizing Israel is a freaking cottage industry. Let’s stop pretending that Israel critics suffer for their criticism. Walt, Mearsheimer, Carter, and Buchanan—they all make millions criticizing Israel.

And attacking Jews.