Outing Helen Thomas Results in Hate Mail and Threats

The rabbi who videotaped Helen Thomas' self-destructive comments about Jews in "Palestine" is now receiving hate mail and threats:

The New York rabbi who videotaped veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas telling Jews to "get the hell out of Palestine" says he has received numerous death threats and thousands of pieces of hate mail in the days since Thomas' abrupt retirement.

Rabbi David Nesenoff said he is facing an "overload" of threatening e-mails calling for a renewed Holocaust and targeting his family — a barrage of hate he said he planned to report to the police on Wednesday.

"This ticker tape keeps coming in," Nesenoff told FoxNews.com. "We got one specific one saying, 'We're going to kill the Jews; watch your back.'"

Nesenoff said he was shocked not only by Thomas' original remarks — which he called anti-Semitic — but by the wave of insults and threats he has received since his videotape brought about her public shaming and the end of her 50-year career at the White House.

"This is something that I thought was a couple of people here or there, [but] it's mainstream and it's frightening," the Long Island rabbi said. "[Thomas] is just a little cherry on top of this huge, huge sundae of hate in America."

Hatred of the Jews in some cultures has been a tradition for more than 5,000 years and even in today's supposedly enlightened society it still runs hot.

By the way, I hear there's a call for Helen Thomas' name to remain on the seat she occupied in the White House Press Briefing Room.  I'm not sure the White House wants a permanent monument to Antisemitism just a couple of feet from the podium.