Farrakhan Continues Anti-Semitic Campaign At Annual Saviours’ Day Conference

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said today that anti-Semitism was �front and center� at the Nation of Islam�s annual meeting near Chicago, and that the organization and its longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, continue to engage in a targeted campaign against Jews.

Minister Farrakhan�s February 27 keynote address featured a range of conspiratorial messages about Jews and Zionists, including accusing Jews and Israel of trying to push the U.S. into a war with Iran, blaming Jews for killing Jesus, and claiming that Jews were responsible for Black suffering through history.

The NOI convention�s opening plenary session, titled �The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews,� sought to demonstrate disproportionate Jewish involvement in the slave trade and to blame Jews for Black suffering ever since.� Speakers accused Jews of controlling the media and called for the NOI�s anti-Semitic books to be taught in schools nationwide.

�Anti-Semitism has suffused the Nation of Islam�s message, and Farrakhan is the standard bearer and bigot in chief,� said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.� �For the past two years he has put anti-Semitism front and center on the agenda, so that it is now a drumbeat heard across the organization. And perhaps what�s more disturbing is that despite his anti-Semitic rants, he has not been made a pariah in his own community.� What does it take for him to stop being a pied piper of hatred?�

Farrakhan, who has a long history of anti-Semitic and racist statements, addressed the Nation of Islam�s 2011 Saviours� Day convention at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois.� Included among his conspiratorial messages was the allegation that �Zionists� are goading the United States into �a military offensive against Libya,� whose leader, Muammar Qaddafi, he praised as �my brother� and �my friend.�

�At a time when Qaddafi is engaged in a brutal and violent crackdown against his own people, it is shocking to hear Farrakhan praising him,� said Mr. Foxman. �Qaddafi�s actions against his own people are indefensible, and yet Farrakhan defends him.�

Additional excerpts from Farrakhan�s Saviours� Day address:

�� �President Obama, if you allow the Zionists to push you, to mount a military offensive against Qaddafi and you go in and kill him and his sons as you did with Saddam Hussein and his sons, I�m warning you this is a Libyan problem, let the Libyans solve their problem among themselves.�

�� Farrakhan accused American Zionists and Israel of trying to push the U.S. into a war with Iran and charged that, �Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.�

�� �Some of you think that I�m just somebody who�s got something out for the Jewish people.� You�re stupid.� Do you think I would waste my time if I did not think it was important for you to know Satan?� My job is to pull the cover off of Satan so that he will never deceive you and the people of the world again.�

�� �The Black people of America are the real children of Israel.�

(Source: ADL.org)