The Simon Wiesenthal Center: A house built on
lies
By Jackie Muhammad
Nation of Islam Research Group (NOIRG) • June
12, 2020
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, one of the most powerful Jewish
organizations in the world has targeted the Honorable
Minister Louis Farrakhan because of his publication ofThe
Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 2.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), one of the most powerful
Jewish organizations in the world, has portrayed itself as
an international “human rights” organization but is in
reality an apologist for the Zionist State of Israel. The
Wiesenthal Center has now targeted the Honorable Minister
Louis Farrakhan because of his publication of the The
Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 2
(TSRV2)and the two landmark
speeches titled “Who are the Real Children of Israel?”
The Minister’s powerful initiative marked a turning point in
American race relations that has upset the enemies of the
rise of Black America. Minister Farrakhan has now challenged
the very identity of those who have called themselves the
“Chosen People of God.” His exegesis of the Old Testament,
backed by documentation of how the involvement of Jews in
the slave system destroyed Blacks while building
astronomical Jewish wealth, has caused anger and resentment
among the Jewish elite.
As the national bestseller goes into its second printing,
the SWC, under the leadership of Rabbis Marvin Hier, andAbraham
Cooper, and Dr.Harold
Brackman, have launched a classic disinformation
campaign to discredit the book and the Minister.
They penned a tepid 16-page “rebuttal” to the 512-page TSRV2
that avoids all the NOI book’s important themes, inserts,
extraneous issues that are not even in the book, and
arrogantly refuses to acknowledge the central role that the
Jews played in the enslavement, dehumanization,
emasculation, and psychological destruction of Black people
for over 400 years. In graphic detail, and well-documented
fashion TSRV2 describes the How and Why Black people endured
the worst form of slavery ever recorded, and further
demonstrates exactly how the Jews profited from it.
What is generally unknown is that the SWC has a
well-documented history of lies, distortions, and
exaggerations, and they are moving against the Minister to
deflect attention away from the ugly controversies that have
surrounded the Center. Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, as well as
members of the Jewish community itself have condemned the
Center and the poor quality of its research. This universal
condemnation has led to its being ridiculed internationally
as an organization built on lies.
Among their many documented ruses, they doctored a WWII
photograph of concentration camp prisoners, painting in
smoke billowing from chimneys intending to make viewers
believe that it was from Jews who were being incinerated.
After it was disclosed that the Center had inserted the
smoke, the Center removed it from the photograph, and
eventually removed the picture from its web site.
Incredibly, the Center tried to explain away the
embarrassment claiming that the smoke was the result of a
“smudge”—an explanation no one believed(The
original photo and the SWC airbrushed version can be seen athttp://goo.gl/Vuah.)
Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review
(IHR) wrote that the SWC’s “record of exaggerating
anti-Jewish sentiment to raise money is no secret. Even the
Anti-Defamation League … has acknowledged that the Center
makes ‘inaccurate’ and ‘exaggerated claims’ about
anti-Semitism to raise money. It found, for example, that a
Center fundraising letter is ‘replete with factual
misstatements and exaggerations’ about anti-Jewish sentiment
in the United States and Europe.”
The fabrication or suppression of information by the Center
appears to be their mainstay. Indeed, Simon Wiesenthal
himself has come under fire for his sordid history of
flagrant lying, and bold faced exaggerations. The famed
Austrian Nazi hunter, now confirmed by newly found documents
to have been an Israeli Mossad agent, was said to “never let
the facts get in the way of a good story.”
Hunting Evilauthor Guy Walters depicts
Wiesenthal as “a liar-and a bad one at that.” He relates how
Wiesenthal concocted outrageous stories about his war years
and made fictitious claims concerning his academic
achievements. Walters found “so many inconsistencies between
[Wiesenthal’s] three main memoirs … and contemporaneous
documents, that it is impossible to establish a reliable
narrative from them. Wiesenthal‘s scant regard for truth
makes it possible to doubt everything he ever wrote or
said.”
The same disregard for truth plagues the center named after
Mr. Wiesenthal. In his article “Deconstructing Simon
Wiesenthal,” Lawrence Swain draws an analogy between the
truth-challenged “Nazi hunter” and the falsehoods that spew
forth from the SWC. He points to the Center’s 1998 report,
“The Unwanted Guests: Swiss Forced labor Camps 1940-1944,”
in which they falsely accuse Switzerland of wartime crimes,
demanding compensation for the Jewish “victims.” But an
Austrian Jewish researcher found survivors that not only
contradicted the report but were thankful for the refuge
they found in Switzerland. The inaccuracies of the report
infuriated Simon Wiesenthal so much that he disavowed the
Center and its report.
Another
individual who is Jewish—in fact, he is the son of Holocaust
survivors—Prof. Norman Finkelstein, author of the critically
acclaimed bookThe
Holocaust Industry, refers to the SWC’s leaders as a
“gang of heartless and immoral crooks, whose hallmark is
that they will do anything for a dollar.” And he is not
alone. Rabbi Michael Lerner, who co-wrote a book with Black
Prof. Cornel West, wrote that the SWC “has a professional
stake in exaggerating the dangers, and sometimes allows
existing racial or political prejudices in the Jewish world
to influence how it will portray the potential dangers.”
When California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was a
gubernatorial candidate, the SWC discovered that his father
was a member of the infamous Nazi “brown shirts.” In an
article written by Ernesto Cienfuegos ofLa
Voz de Aztlanhe alleges that the Center
suppressed this information in exchange for a $750,000
contribution from the candidate. The Center’s “Museum of
Tolerance” is now a line item in the California budget for
$5 million a year. And even while teachers, policemen and
firemen were being laid off in record numbers, the city of
Los Angeles found $18 million for Rabbi Abraham Cooper. Many
Angelinos have voiced their outrage about the huge sums of
money that have been earmarked for the Wiesenthal Center,
particularly in light of California‘s desperate budget
plight.
But despite the state’s budget woes, finances are not a
concern at the SWC. Weber reports that according to records
from 2002-2003, Rabbi Hier paid himself more than $482,000
in salary and benefits. In addition, the rabbi pays his wife
$312,000, and his sons Alan and Aron receive $151,000, and
$95,000 respectively. Rabbi Abraham Cooper received $397,000
in salary and benefits.
The Wiesenthal Center’s record of recklessly abandoning
truth for sleazy propaganda extends to international affairs
as well. Rabbi Hier penned an article in the November 26,
1990, Newsweektitled
“Crisis in the Gulf,” in which he pressed the United States
to invade Iraq claiming that they had nuclear weapons. Hier
makes no mention of Israel’s well-known nuclear arsenal, nor
of how that rogue state shared its nuclear knowledge and
hardware with the racist apartheid state of South Africa.
Hier’sNewsweeklies
clearly contributed to a disgraceful war that cost the
United States over $750 billion dollars, 4,427 American
soldier lives, 35,000 wounded, and hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi deaths and millions of displaced citizens, all
apparently to benefit the state of Israel.
Given this dubious history, is there any reason to question
the SWC’s veracity when it comes to the Nation of Islam and
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan? The Center’s
consistent record of lies and distortions to justify its
political and fundraising agenda is well documented. To
question the scholarship ofThe
Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews, Vol. 2and
the truthfulness of the Champion of Black America is
foolhardy. TSRV2 is one of the most well-researched books on
the market. It leaves it to the reader to do his/her own
research and draw their own conclusions, based on the truth
of the facts presented—and its thousandsof footnotes
and citations.
The Honorable Minister Farrakhan has stated that the “Real
Children of Israel” are the Black man and woman, and not
those who have falsely claimed to be the “Chosen” of the
Bible. He is so committed to this truth that he has offered
his life if anyone can prove what he is teaching is false.
Are the leaders of the SWC prepared to do the same? Based on
their track record, do not count on it.
(Jackie Muhammad is a former presidential appointee, member
of the Oxford Round Table, educator, youth-trainer and
businessman. He can be reached atjacrb519@aol[dot]
com. For more information on the subject, visitNOIRG.ORG.
Another individual who is Jewish—in fact, he is the son of Holocaust survivors—Prof. Norman Finkelstein, author of the critically acclaimed book The Holocaust Industry, refers to the SWC’s leaders as a “gang of heartless and immoral crooks, whose hallmark is that they will do anything for a dollar.” And he is not alone. Rabbi Michael Lerner, who co-wrote a book with Black Prof. Cornel West, wrote that the SWC “has a professional stake in exaggerating the dangers, and sometimes allows existing racial or political prejudices in the Jewish world to influence how it will portray the potential dangers.”
