Farrakhan Leads Audience in Anti-Semitic Tirade

Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan used his platform at the NOI’s Mosque Maryam in Chicago on Sunday to lead his audience in an anti-Semitic tirade.

Towards the end of his remarks, Farrakhan made a bizarre comparison between the study of ants and white people. “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says to study [white people]. They’re successful. They make no excuses for their failures. They work hard in a collective manner like the ant….Their long coevolution with other species has led to mimetic, commensal, parasitic, and mutualistic relationships.”

He then brought Jews into the comparison:

Go back to the Secret Relationship[Between Black and Jews] …White people are wise and the wisest of white people are the members of the Jewish community…They are wise and they are the guards of their own world. Are you mad with me for saying that? [Audience: “No sir!”] You can’t go nowhere in their world without paying obeisance to them.

Farrakhan then engaged in a disturbing call-and-response with his audience:

Farrakhan: How many of you are lawyers? Only have one in the house? No wonder we go to jail so much, brother. But at the top of the law profession, who are the top in law?

Audience: Jews.

Farrakhan: Sorry I didn’t hear you.

Audience: Jews!

Farrakhan: Any doctors in the house? Ain’t got no doctors? Oh there’s one way in the back. At the top of the medical profession, the top in that are members of the Jewish community. Anybody in media? Who’s the top in that field?

Audience: Jews.

Farrakhan: Anybody a rapper in the house? There’s rappers. You can rap, ain’t nothing wrong with that, but at the top of that are those that control the industry. Any of you have Hollywood ambitions, Broadway ambitions… Who’s the top of that?

Audience: Jews.

Farrakhan: Same people! They’re masters in business. Well I’m not a businessman I’m a banker. Well who’s the master of the bankers?

Audience: Jews.

Farrakhan: TALK TO ME!

Audience: Jews!

Farrakhan: You don’t discredit them because they’re masters, you discredit them by the way they use their mastery.

Audience: [applause]

Farrakhan: Now, I close.

Jews Control Black Politicians Says Deric Muhammad

Image From The Final Call Article

The Nation of Islam’s newspaper, The Final Call, promotes the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jews control all levels of American government, including the President himself.

The article, titled “The Secret Relationship Between Black Politicians and Jews,” is written by contributor Deric Muhammad, who is described as “a Houston-based activist in the Ministry of Justice.”

Muhammad claims that Obama “had to pledge allegiance to Israel’s flag before he could pledge allegiance to America’s as her president. He was following the course of the vast majority of Black politicians who fear the Jewish lobby more than they fear the Black vote.” He later describes being “sickened” by the way black politicians “kowtow at the mere mention of AIPAC and the Jewish lobby.”

Muhammad also minimizes Jewish involvement in the civil rights struggle and paints it as part of a larger disingenuous Jewish plan to gain control over black politicians. “Jewish people bankrolled the Civil Rights Organizations that marched to uproot the Jim Crow laws that Jews put in place so that we could secure to [sic] right to vote for Black politicians that would eventually end up under Jewish control. You have got to be kidding me.”

The article also perpetuates myths about the relationship between Jews, money, and undue political influence, claiming “…the Jewish community can always use the might of their unified dollars to bully our elected officials into becoming cheerleaders for ‘all things Jewish.’”

On June 13, The Final Call tweeted another article by Muhammad published in January that promotes similar stereotypes about Jewish control over African-Americans, specifically musicians. In the article, Muhammad asserts there have been “decades of draconian record contracts, usury and the general slave/slavemaster relationship between Black entertainers and entertainment executives who happen to be Jewish.”

The Final Call Newspaper Denies Jewish History

The Nation of Islam’s newspaper, The Final Call, featured an article by guest columnist Jackie Muhammad in the May 29, 2012, issue. The article reinforces the blatant anti-Semitic vitriol expressed by Farrakhan during his recent lectures and speeches.

The article not only denies Jewish history by arguing that Ashkenazi Jews have no connection to Biblical Jews but also demonizes the Jewish people in modern times. Muhammad writes that “the white Jewish establishment (Israel)” fears that Farrakhan will “influence the thinking of untold millions who are unaware of the damage done to us by our Jewish ‘friends’” and that “Black youth…will break free of Israel’s control.” The article concludes that it is the “children of the Black slave” who are “the legitimate heirs of God’s covenant,” and therefore the real Jews.

The Final Call serves as a platform to further promote Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. It is a central part of the organization’s media arm, which includes various websites, book publishing and social media initiatives.

Conspiracy Theories Mark Louis Farrakhan’s San Diego Address

Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan’s nearly three-hour speech in San Diego last weekend, titled “Guidance in a Time of Trouble,” was marked by myriad conspiratorial attacks against the U.S., as well as Israel.

While media reports following Farrakhan’s remarks primarily focused on his criticism of Obama’s stance on gay marriage and his “warning” that God will severely punish America if it attacks Iran, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel vitriol marked parts of his speech as well.

Farrakhan reiterated his views about how members of Congress are “afraid to speak out against the warmongering of Israel and their control through AIPAC of your members of Congress.” “Joe Lieberman and his crowd,” Farrakhan said, are pushing for war against Iran and “moving the goalposts” for Iran on the nuclear issue.

Farrakhan also promoted the NOI’s book “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” which argues essentially that the history of slavery in the New World was initiated by Jewish ship owners and merchants, who, as a group, the book maintains, remained the primary beneficiaries of the slave economy.

“How many of you have heard of the Holocaust?” Farrakhan continued. “Raise your hands. Jewish people want the world to know what Hitler did to them. Why? So it will never happen again. Don’t you want to know what was done to you? This book should be in your colleges in your African American studies. But I know who writes your pay checks.”

In addition to discussing how much of the American southwest was taken from Mexico through “trickery” and how birth control is a conspiracy by white Americans to keep the white majority, Farrakhan also attacked President Obama’s position on gay marriage. “He’s the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid…Why is it that all you politicians take your oath of office on the Bible? If the book is no good, what the hell are you using it for to take an oath of office…?”

Farrakhan concluded his speech with a tirade warning America of calamity if it takes action against Iran. “So I’m warning you America, if you bomb Iran…The God that I represent is going to take out some of your cities with earthquakes… He’s going show you his power. In the meantime, one calamity after another until you submit, America, and know that judgment is here…”

Farrakhan to California Students: "Read The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews”

Students affiliated with the Afrikan Black Coalition offered Louis Farrakhan, the racist and anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a platform to promote his hateful views last weekend at the University of California, Berkeley.

Farrakhan speaks at UC-Berkeley

During his talk, Farrakhan repeatedly encouraged the African-American students in attendance to read “The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” an anti-Semitic book published by the NOI that claims that slavery was initiated by Jewish ship owners and merchants. At one point, Farrakhan, who was addressing students from at least 10 University of California campuses, warned them not to engage in dialogue with Jewish students before they read the book.

Farrakhan also alluded to conspiratorial theories about “Jewish control” of publishing companies and the U.S. government. While recounting an interaction with a rabbi who had urged him to renounce anti-Semitism, Farrakhan claimed that he rejected the rabbi’s request and responded: “Since you have a lot of influence on the government, you can bring the government against me too.”

Farrakhan reserved the conclusion of his speech for a scathing attack on Israel, which he prefaced as a message for “Jewish students.”  He claimed that while he doesn’t fault Jewish students for supporting Israel, he “would fault” them if Israeli leaders decided to attack Iran.

Farrakhan’s speech at Berkeley came just two weeks after he delivered his annual Saviours' Day address in Chicago. That speech, which consistently attracts thousands of attendees, included accusations of Jewish control and many of the past anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that have made Farrakhan one of the nation's foremost promoters of anti-Semitism.

For more information, check out our statement on Farrakhan’s appearance at UC Berkeley here. 

Anti-Semitic Prelude to Farrakhan’s Saviours' Day Diatribe

In a prelude to Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic keynote address at the United Center in Chicago  on February 26, the Nation of Islam held a plenary session titled “Business is Warfare: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews” as part of its Saviours' Day weekend.

During the February 24 session, named after a set of NOI books alleging that Jewish exploitation of Blacks during the slave trade has caused deep and prolonged repercussions for African-Americans, several speakers promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in line with Farrakhan’s record. 

• Referring to Jews, Louis Farrakhan’s daughter Donna Farrakhan said, “They didn’t intend for us to have freedom, justice and equality. They built it on our backs, our blood, our sweat, and our tears.”

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  Leonard Jeffries

  Leonard Jeffries, former head of the black studies department at City College of New York, said Jewish owned banks lent money to slave traders. “The evil genius of the Jewish community was to put together their powers to make business their religion and make it part of their culture.”

• Dr. Ridgely Muhammad, Minister of Agriculture for the Nation of Islam, said, “The so called Jews were the ones supporting the KKK and financing them. They formed the KKK.”

Over the past three years, the Nation of Islam (NOI) has engaged in a wide-ranging campaign to demonize Jews. Not only have the speeches delivered by Louis Farrakhan been among the most hateful of his 30-year career as head of the NOI, but the organization's media arm has also reinforced these messages through a range of propaganda.

Thousands Expected to Attend Nation of Islam’s Annual Anti-Semitic Convention in Chicago

In what will likely be the largest gathering in the U.S. to hear an anti-Semite this year, approximately 20,000 people are expected to convene this weekend in Rosemont and Chicago, Illinois, for the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) annual Saviours’ Day convention.

Over the past three years, the NOI has engaged in a wide-ranging campaign to demonize Jews. Not only have the speeches delivered by Louis Farrakhan been among the most hateful of his 30-year career as head of the NOI, but the organization's media arm has also reinforced these messages through a range of propaganda.

Under Farrakhan’s leadership, Saviours’ Day has served as the NOI’s premier event promoting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, including accusations of Jewish control over government, media, finance and entertainment. In addition to Farrakhan’s keynote address, which often serves as the weekend’s primary platform for these views, this year’s event will feature a plenary session seeking to demonstrate disproportionate Jewish involvement in the slave trade.

The plenary session, titled “Business is Warfare: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,” takes its name from a set of NOI books alleging that Jewish exploitation of Blacks during the slave trade has caused deep and prolonged repercussions for African-Americans. A similar plenary session devoted to this topic during the 2011 convention called for the inclusion of the books in educational curricula nationwide.

Another plenary session, titled “9/11: What Really Happened and Why?” is being billed by the NOI as an examination of “all angles of the events which took place on that day” and will feature a known “9/11 truther” group.

Dallas Nation of Islam Leader Calls Jews and Asians “Blood Suckers”

Jeffery Muhammad, the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) longtime leader in Dallas, has charged that Jews and Asian-Americans are among those that have exploited African-Americans for decades. Muhammad, minister of the NOI’s Mosque 48, reportedly said that Asian-Americans “are just the latest in a long line of people who have come to this country -- like Jews, Italians, Indians and now Asians -- who have sucked the blood of and exploited the black community.”

Muhammad’s comments were made amidst increasing tensions resulting from several racially-charged incidents at the Diamond Shamrock Kwik Stop in South Dallas.

Muhammad has also taken his campaign against the store to Twitter, where he has reiterated his anti-Asian remarks on multiple occasions, including in a February 6 post that read, “Asians want to know if we are targeting all Asian business. We know Asians have targeted Black communities to exploit. The JIG IS UP.”

While the incidents have prompted concerns from other community organizations as well, Muhammad’s reference to “blood suckers” to describe the relationship between African-Americans and other minority groups, especially Jews, is right out of the NOI playbook.  

Academic Department Co-Sponsors Farrakhan Appearance at Chicago State University

The African-American Studies Program at Chicago State University (CSU) sponsored a lecture by Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), at the University’s Jacoby Dickens Center on January 25. According to the NOI, Farrakhan’s son-in-law and longtime aide Leonard Muhammad “worked closely” with CSU faculty and staff to make Farrakhan’s address on education in the African-American community happen.

In an interview last fall, Farrakhan described a growing willingness among university administrators to invite him to their campuses despite the nefarious influence of “forces that have seen me as anti-Semitic or anti-White or racist or however they wish to describe me.” In 2011, Farrakhan spoke at Howard University, Jackson State University and Prairie View A&M University—though unlike the CSU event, none of those appearances were sponsored by academic departments.

Farrakhan’s address at CSU comes within weeks of the NOI’s annual Saviours’ Day convention, which is taking place in Rosemont and Chicago, Illinois, from February 24-26, 2012.