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he executive committee
of the national Society of
Professional Journalists (SPJ)
has recommended that the organiza-
tion retire a lifetime achievement
award named for Helen Thomas.
The recommendation issued Jan.
8 by the national journalists group,
based on anti-Zion-
ist remarks made by
Thomas, will be sent
to its board of direc-
tors within 10 days.
"While we support
Helen Thomas' right
to speak her opin-
ion, we condemn
Helen Thomas
her statements in
December as offen-
sive and inappropriate the executive
committee said in making its recom-
mendation.
On Dec. 2, in a speech to a Arab
American-themed group in Dearborn,
Thomas, 90, said that Congress, the
White House, Hollywood and Wall
Street "are owned by the Zionists." The
remarks raised fresh concerns about the
sincerity of an apology for her remarks
last spring to a video blogger that Jews
"should get the hell out of Palestine"
and "go home" to Poland, Germany
and the United States. She apologized,
but her remarks in Michigan on Dec. 2
raised fresh concerns
about the sincerity of
the apology.
After her prior
remarks to blog-
ger Rabbi David
Nesenoff, the society
considered calls
from members
Hagit Limor
and some Jewish
groups to rename
its Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime
Achievement but decided against it,
noting her apology and the off-the-
cuff nature of the remarks, an official
with the organization told JTA.
Thomas, a 67-year Washington report-
er, resigned shortly afterward from her
job as a columnist at Hearst.
"This is a complex issue, and the exec-
utive committee considered comments
and letters from both sides',' the society's
president, Hagit Limor, said following the

Jan. 8 vote."Because of the importance
of this decision, it is appropriate to put
this before the full board:' Limor an
investigative journalist for WCPO-TV
in Cincinnati and a native Israeli who
moved to the United States at age 8.
The national SPJ granted Thomas its
first lifetime achievement honor in 2000,
and pledged to name subsequent awards
for her. The award has no cash value.
Thomas told the Washington Jewish
Week on Sunday that the journalists
group "dishonored and disgraced the
First Amendment" by its decision. "How
can you take away anyone's lifetime
achievement award? What right do they
have to do that?" she said.
"Helen Thomas brought shame to
the journalism profession; the Society
of Professional Journalists restored its
honor:' Elan Steinberg, vice president of
the American Gathering of Holocaust
Survivors and their Descendants, said
in a statement released Sunday.
Wayne State University Thomas' alma
mater in Detroit, immediately withdrew
its Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the
Media Award following her resignation.
Thomas recently began writing a
column for a free Virginia weekly news-
paper, the Falls Church News Press. Its
owner-editor Nicholas E Benton wrote
that, as one who had known Thomas
since 1991, "She is progressive, and
following my more than eight hours of
direct, one-on-one talks with her since
the events of last June, I remain firmly
convinced that she is neither bigoted,
nor racist, nor anti-Semitic." Il

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Carmel Fire Aftermath
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- In the wake of
the Carmel Forest fire, Israel's gov-
ernment approved more than $223
million for homefront emergency pre-
paredness and disasters.
Nearly $100,000 will be allocated to
establishing an upgraded national fire
service and an aerial firefighting force.
The bill also transferred responsibility
for Israel's fire services from the Interior
Ministry and local authorities to the
Public Security Ministry.
The Carmel fire broke out Dec. 2 and
took four days to get under control.
Forty-four people were killed in the
blaze, which burned 12,000 acres of land,
consumed 5 million trees and destroyed
or severely damaged 250 homes.

