Min. Farrakhan and the Jews
University of Illinois at Chicago Pavillion "The Black Man Must Do
For Self or Suffer the Consequences!"
Chicago, October 7, 1991
"In my hands is a manuscript, brothers and sisters, that arose out
of the controversy between myself and the Jewish community. I want to
tell all of you I have never been antisemitic. I have never been a
hater of Jews, nor am I now that, but I discovered in my tussle with
them that they were on me because I had the nerve to pull the cover
off of some deceitful practices that they practice on us and on
others. And so they tried to make me the worst Black man in history.
When they did that, some Muslims in the Nation rose up to defend me
and went into libraries and did research and compiled a manuscript of
over 300 pages from their own writings not from us. And not one
scholar that we quote is an antisemite. Here are Jewish rabbis,
Jewish scholars, Jewish writers. They document their own hand in the
slave trade. They document their own hand in owning the ships,
running the ships, buying and selling our fathers p; it's
here.
"They tell how they supplied smallpox to General Amherst (Secret
Relationship, pp. 111-114) to send the blankets among the Native
American p; it's all here. I'm going to send this to every Jewish
person that has attacked me p; FREE. I'm not going to ask them to
pay for it p; with a letter from me asking them to comment on
what we have discovered in our research. I'm sending this to the
Black Caucus, to Black leaders and Black preachers. I want you to
read. This is not to create hate, but what it is to do is to
rearrange a relationship that is not beneficial to us but has been
detrimental to us...
"With the help of God we intend to put this everywhere and this is
just Volume One. We have three volumes of it....I'm telling you what
you read in this, it will make you to know that Farrakhan was not
wrong. I stood and I stand on principles of truth and by the grace of
God I will never back down from truth. I want this in the Senate
because the Senate voted 95 to nothing to censure me saying that an
antisemite like Farrakhan has no place in America. I want my day
in court in the US Senate and I want that expunged from the record
and my name cleared."
Attack on FARRAKHAN: The
Beginning
The most recent Jewish attacks on Black people and their leaders
started in 1983 during the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse L.
Jackson. The following is a chronology of these events:
In 1983, some Jews organized a group calling themselves "Jews
Against Jackson" to oppose the presidential candidacy of Rev.
Jesse L. Jackson, a Black civil rights leader and founder of
"People United to Save Humanity" (PUSH). The JAJ protested by taking
out a New York Times advertisement with the slogan "Ruin
Jesse, Ruin," mocking the slogan of Jackson's supporters, "Run Jesse,
Run."
In 1984, Rev. Jackson became the symbol of Black political
advancement, registering thousands of Blacks and poor Whites to vote
in local and national elections. Hundreds of threats against the life
of Rev. Jackson and his family were recorded and several arrests were
made. The remains of mutilated animals were left at the home of
Reverend Jackson and his campaign headquarters in two cities were
bombed. Rev. Jackson enlisted the support of Min. Louis Farrakhan,
leader of the Nation of Islam, whose security force named the "Fruit
Of Islam" secured the life of the candidate.
Hymie, Hymietown and Jesse
Milton Coleman, a Black Washington Post reporter,
mentioned to a White Post reporter, that he heard Jesse
Jackson refer to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York as "Hymietown."
These remarks were uttered by Jackson in a private conversation with
Coleman and other Black journalists. The White reporter then reported
this in an article the next day.
The "Hitler"
Remark-What's the Truth?
February 25, 1984 In a speech given by Min. Farrakhan at a
rally for Jackson, Min. Farrakhan noted the unusually bitter attacks
on Jackson by Jewish leaders and organizations. The following is an
extended excerpt of that speech. (The widely reported words are in
bold print):
"Now whether you know it or not, anytime a Black man stands up with
justice in his mouth, his life is on the line. You know that, don't
you brothers and sisters? When Jesse decided to run, Jesse decided to
put his life on the line. It is unthinkable that we should let our
brother go down into the valley of the shadow of death and we say
'Watch Jesse run. Look at Jesse go.' It is unthinkable that we should
not go down with him so that we may go up with him. I say whether we
know it or not, there have been over a hundred real threats on this
man's life already and several people are already in jail for
thinking, planning to do harm to this brother. What has he done to
merit this kind of thinking in the American public? What has he done?
I'll tell you what he's done. He's freed the minds of these young
Black boys and girls who will never again think that Black people
cannot rule themselves and go to the top, this is what he's done.
What has he done? He stands up for the poor, the oppressed and the
locked out. What has he done? He's extended his hand to the American
Indian, the owners of the country who languish on reservation while
others live from the riches of their land. He reaches out to the
Mexican American, to the Hispanic American. He reaches out to the
poor and to the women. But there's another segment that he reaches
out to. He reaches out to Arab Americans. No president or no
presidential candidate goes to the Arab seeking Arab American votes.
Reverend Jesse Jackson has the nerve to do that and because he had
the nerve to want to include all, not some, he's hated.
"I'm saying to the Jewish people who may not like our brother, it is
not Jesse Jackson that you are attacking. Remember this now. You're
not attacking an individual. Jesse's gone past that now. When you
attack him, you attack the millions that are lining up with him.
You're attacking all of us. That's not intelligent. That's not an
intelligent thing to do. That's not wise. We know that Blacks and
Jews have had a good relationship in the past. We've gotten along
well, because you're a suffering people and so are we. But my dear
Jewish friends, you must understand that everything comes of age. We
cannot define our self interest in terms of your self interest. And
because our self interests differ because we've come of age, why
dislike us? Why attack our champion? Why hurl stones at him? Why feed
the Press so that they can create a climate into which hatred and
bitterness and strife can be poured, creating the same kind of
climate that led to the assassination of John Kennedy, the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and Bobby
Kennedy. Why create that kind of climate when you have the power to
turn it around and show the world that you have sense? Don't you
realize what you're doing? Press, don't you realize what you're
doing? Are you as blind as the government? And if the blind lead the
blind, both fall in the ditch. You are blind.
"You do not realize there are 35 to 45 percent of your armed forces
are Black. It is we who you will send to Nicaragua. It is we who you
sent to Grenada. It is we who you sent to Lebanon. It is we who will
be sent to fight your wars. This is our brother. This is our son.
This is our champion. If you harm this brother, what do you think we
should do about it? How can we fight for America, if America kills
all of our fighters who fight for our justice? This is a foolish
thing that you are doing.
I say to you as intelligent people, sit down and talk with Rev.
Jackson. Sit down Jewish leaders and talk with us. We are ready to
talk with you. Sit down and talk like intelligent people who have a
future at stake. But if you harm this brother, I warn you in the
name of Allah, this will be the last one you harm. We are not
making any idle threats, we have no weapons, we [don't] carry
so much as a pen knife. But I do tell the world that Almighty God
Allah is backing us up in what we say and what we do, and we warn you
in His name leave this servant of Almighty God alone. Leave him
alone. If you want to defeat him, defeat him at the polls. We can
stand to lose an election, but we cannot stand to lose our
brother..."
February 27, 1984 Nathan
Perlmutter of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith referred
to Minister Farrakhan as a "Black Hitler." Nat Hentoff, a Jewish
leader and columnist for the Village Voice participated in a
New York radio call-in show and also characterized the Muslim leader
as a "Black Hitler."
March 11, 1984 - Min. Farrakhan responded to the insult in a
radio broadcast from Chicago:
"So I said to the members of the press, 'Why won't you go and look
into what we are saying about the threats on Reverend Jackson's
life?' Here the Jews don't like Farrakhan and so they call me
'Hitler.' Well that's a good name. Hitler was a very great
man. He wasn't great for me as a Black man (See Hitler's
attitude toward Blacks) but he was a great German and he rose
Germany up from the ashes of her defeat by the united force of all of
Europe and America after the first world war. Yet Hitler took Germany
from the ashes and rose her up and made her the greatest fighting
machine of the twentieth century, brothers and sisters, and even
though Europe and America had deciphered the code that Hitler was
using to speak to his chiefs of staff, they still had trouble
defeating Hitler even after knowing his plans in advance. Now I'm not
proud of Hitler's evil toward Jewish people, but that's a matter of
record. He rose Germany up from nothing. Well, in a sense you could
say there is a similarity in that we are rising our people up from
nothing, but don't compare me with your wicked killers.
"Why would we tolerate this? I've been among Black people as a
teacher from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad for nearly thirty years.
I'm not a stranger in America. I have lectured in every major
university and college and theological seminary in this country. I'm
well-known by my brothers and sisters who are scholarly. I have
addressed every major Black organization that there is. I ask, why
should we submit when a White man calls one of our Black brothers a
"Hitler" that we don't rise up and take them to task? You wait for
Farrakhan to come and defend himself, though I am a defender of Black
people. Not that it matters to me whether you defend me or defend me
not. That's up to you. But that would show some gratitude on your
part for the work of your brother. I am defended by God and He's
sufficient for me, He and his Apostle, but, when you can allow the
enemy to call your leaders anything they want to and get away with
it, then you are selling yourself again into slavery."
Immediately the media was filled with Jewish charges that Minister
Farrakhan praised Adolf Hitler. The Nation of Islam responded:
"Great" is a word that is assigned to anything that has a
lasting influence or consequence. The twelve volume Oxford English
Dictionary uses four full pages to define "great" and only one of
the definitions suggests a positive or laudatory connotation. The
others refer to the size or magnitude, quantity or scope of a thing
or event. Webster's Unabridged Third New International
Dictionary goes even further. Its primary definition refers to a
"large spatial dimension," but it later defines it as somebody who is
prominent or of renown and then uses the examples of "a politician"
or "a dictator" or "a creator of political confusion." Adolph Hitler
was all three.
Judaism a "gutter
religion"?
Some Jews claim that Min. Farrakhan called Judaism a "gutter
religion." Here is the actual statement from a speech on his return
to America from Libya:
June 24, 1984
"...America and England and the nations backed Israel's existence.
Therefore when you aid and abet someone in a criminal conspiracy, you
are a part of that criminal conspiracy. So America and England and
the nations are criminals in the sight of almighty God. Now that
nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she
will never have any peace because there can never be any peace
structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the
name of God to shield your dirty religion under His holy and
righteous name.
"America and England and the nations, because of their backing of
Israel, are being drawn into the heat of the third world war, which
is called Armageddon. Oh America, you have blundered so. And instead
of recognizing the mistake you have made and make a turn for the
better, you persist in your evil. And so the consequences of evil
must come. You hate us because we dare to say that we are the chosen
people of God and can back it up..."
Minister Farrakhan used the term "dirty religion" to describe the
practices of some Jews in the State of Israel. Reasonable people may
argue that Moses would not condone Israelis who,
· develop nuclear weapons for apartheid South Africa
· put the Palestinians in, what Archbishop Desmond Tutu
called, a state of apartheid
· train the Medelin drug cartel security forces
· train apartheid South Africa's military and police
· sell weapons to "terrorist states"
· torture those Palestinians they have illegally detained
· have implemented outwardly racist policies against
dark-skinned Jews
Should these Israelis refer to themselves as Jews, one might say that
they have "dirtied the religion" of Judaism. Minister Farrakhan
regularly teaches that Muslim "big bellied sheiks who live in
opulence when their people live in squalor are practicing a dirty
religion." Christians that give the poor a Bible and then
exploit their faith and take their natural resources, in the name of
God, have dirtied the religion. TV evangelists who thrive off the
faith of the gullible and the ignorant, have dirtied the religion.
This concept is universal.
