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Notorious antisemite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan live-streamed a three-hour Independence Day rant on YouTube where he calls prominent Jewish Americans, including Jonathan Greenblatt and Alan Dershowitz, “Satan,” as well as repeating the lie Israel was behind George Floyd’s killing.
The Combat Anti-Semitism Movement (CAM) on Wednesday called on YouTube to remove the video, saying it was “in clear contravention of YouTube’s own policies on hate speech.”
Farrakhan’s Fourth of July address also aired Saturday on Revolt TV, a cable channel owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs. Combs encouraged his 15.6 million Twitter followers to watch the video, tweeting “Everyone can watch…Just not the scared ones.”
Everyone can watch… Just not the scared ones.— Diddy (@Diddy) July 4, 2020
In the address, the 87-year-old Nation of Islam leader called the head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jonathan Greenblatt, “Satan.”
“Mr. Greenblatt, you are Satan. Those of you that say that you’re Jews, I will not even give you the honor of calling you a Jew. You are not a Jew… you are Satan and it is my job now to pull the cover off of Satan so that every Muslim when he sees Satan, pick up a stone, as we do in Mecca,” Farrakhan said.
“When you know who Satan is, you don’t have to kill him [but] the stone of truth, that’s what you throw. We cast truth at falsehood till we knock out its brains,” he continued.
He also called Jewish renowned defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz “a skillful deceiver” and “Satan masquerading as a lawyer.”
Farrakhan also implicated Israel in the death of George Floyd and in police violence in general.
“That’s why you gotta come at us like a coward,” he said. “Like snakes trying to wrap yourself around us so you could give us the treatment that you were taught in Israel. You may, as you gonna stop your police from going to Israel to learn how to kill better.”
“Your days of killing us without consequence are over,” he added.
Greenblatt took to Twitter to respond to Farrakhan’s “trademark antisemitism.”
“This is routine for Farrakhan- give him a platform, he never fails to espouse hatred,” Greenblatt said.
CAM Director Sacha Roytman-Dratwa wrote in a letter addressed to Matt Halprin, YouTube’s vice president of global trust and safety:
Louis Farrakhan has a long history of antisemitism, incorporating it into the very legitimate, important fight for civil rights and equality. His perversion of these values by promoting hatred and dehumanization of Jews is quite simply unacceptable.
According to CAM, by allowing the video, which has garnered nearly 900,000 views in three days, to remain on its site, “YouTube is allowing him to hijack the worthy cause of racial justice and use the video sharing site as a platform for anti-Semitism.”
“[Farrakhan] even suggested the Jewish community seeks to kill him, saying, ‘If you [Jews] make that move, I can guarantee your destruction,'” the letter reads.
In his address, Farrakhan bizarrely attempted to disavow accusations of antisemitism.
“They tell lies to make you think I am a bigot or antisemite, so that you won’t listen to what I’m saying. So far they’ve been pretty successful,” he said.
“If you really think I hate the Jewish people, you don’t know me at all. [I’ve never] uttered the words of death to the Jewish people,” he went on.
In the past his rancorous antisemitic rants have included calling Jews members of the “Synagogue of Satan” and claiming Jesus called the Jews “the children of the devil.”
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said he was not surprised by Farrakhan’s remarks.
“At this stage of history, no one can be surprised by the rants of America’s Godfather of antisemitism,” he told The Algemeiner.
Cooper also condemned Farrakhan’s “lurid antisemitic conspiracy linking the Jewish state to the death of George Floyd.”
The
new Fox ‘Soul’ network has announced that it will air Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan’s “Message to America” on a special July 4th program, despite
his history of racism, antisemitism, and homophobia.
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‘Soul’ Network to Air Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan July 4
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The new Fox ‘Soul’ network has
announced that it will air Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s “Message to
America” on a special July 4th program, despite his history of racism,
antisemitism, and homophobia.
LIVE ON
FOX SOUL: THE CRITERION
THE
HONORABLE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN will deliver his MESSAGE TO AMERICA on JULY
4th at 11am ET / 8am PT.
For More information visit https://t.co/cQCGt59mm7 and
tune into FOX https://t.co/ZQ7BibvsBi or Download the FOX SOUL APP pic.twitter.com/CdJoQLcEnP
Farrakhan’s history of hateful
rhetoric is well-documented. In 2018, he compared Jews to termites. That same year, he drew criticism
for defending the use of the phrase “death to America” during a
conversation with students in Iran.
The main FOX network launched Fox Soul in January in an effort to reach African American
audiences — and to reach beyond the conservative branding of Fox News. Fox Soul
offers four hours of streaming programing daily.
Former New York State Assemblyman
Dov Hikind (D), founder of Americans Against Antisemitism, made an impassioned
plea on Twitter on Sunday for Fox Soul to cancel the program.
.@AmericansAA calls upon @FOXTV to immediately cancel the planned
JULY 4 broadcast of Dishonorable Minister of Hate @LouisFarrakhan on @foxsoultv@splcenter considers the Nation of Islam to be
an extremist hate group. So why amplify this hateful voice?!#CancelFarrakhanNow! pic.twitter.com/FJo632h4cR
The advertisement (above) for Fox
Soul’s special Farrakhan broadcast includes a link to the Nation of Islam’s
website.
The website (link not provided) is billing
Farrakhan’s appearance as The
Criterion: Announcement to the World. The website also includes
links to purchase the Nation of Islam’s antisemitic trilogy, The Secret
Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.
The Nation of Islam has had
controversial relationships with the anti-Trump “Women’s March,” and provided security for the recent funeral of George Floyd.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior
Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on
Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7
p.m. PT). His new book, RED NOVEMBER, is available for pre-order. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert
Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Black Lives Matter: Not Just
Communist, But Viciously Anti-Semitic Too
No matter the color of
their skin, Jews are going to be labeled “white.”
June 29, 2020
Clare M. Lopez
By the time violent rioters
tore through the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Fairfax, Los Angeles on the
night of Saturday May 30, 2020, it was too late. The vicious antisemitic,
anti-Israel language of the M4BL and Black Lives Matter’s demands that included
accusations against Israel of “apartheid” and “genocide” had been brushed aside. Black Lives Matter
(BLM) delegations had traveled to the
Middle East to endorse Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria and
pose for photo ops with the Palestinian flag. Statements from delegation leaders spoke of “occupation, ethnic
cleansing and brutality” that Israel
supposedly has perpetrated against the region’s Arab-Muslim population.
Even when city after city
across America went up in flames after the May 25, 2020 killing of
African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer, with
BLM ‘protesters’ assaulting private businesses, their owners, and law
enforcement officers alike, smashing store fronts, setting fires, and
destroying property, some among America’s Jewish leadership could hardly get
their statements of support out fast enough. Jewish American organizations, the
Reform Movement, rabbinical leadership figures, progressive and Zionist
activists, even the Hasidic Community of Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York
City all practically fell over one another in their haste to endorse the BLM
movement.
The Jewish Federation of
Santa Barbara was no different. On June
13, 2020, the group – including, among others, the Jewish Federation of Greater
Santa Barbara, ADL Santa Barbara Tri-Counties, Santa Barbara Congregation of
B’nai B’rith and Santa Barbara Hillel – issued a statement to condemn “racism”
and “institutional biases.” The Focus Project, whose online website is remarkably empty, disseminated a set
of talking points on June 16, 2020 that appear to date from September 2019. An
increasingly popular trope is included among them that distorts the ancient
Jewish term ‘Tikkun
Olam’ in a way to make it seem like some kind of modern-day
social justice program. In fact, ‘Tikkun Olam’
is a Kabbalist term that made its way into Judaism by way of the Aleinu prayer that
is specific to Rosh Hashanah. ‘Tikkun
Olam’ is not from the Torah (md’oraita) in origin at all – and therefore
not one of the 613 obligatory commandments (mitzvot)
nor anywhere to be found in the normative rabbinical literature concerning the
praxises of Jewish Law (Halacha).
Rather, as a kind of companion bit of moral guidance, ‘Tikkun Olam’ urges
Jews to repair one’s individual relationship to the Almighty by way of
observance of the actual ‘mitzvot’,
or obligatory commandments that lead to perfecting personal behavior.
Now, just as ‘perfecting of
one’s personal behavior before the Almighty’ has nothing to do with the social
justice narrative per se, neither does it have anything to do with supporting a
communist/Marxist, pro-Maoist organization, one of whose BLM co-founders’ declaration of the group’s Marxist ideology was featured on Twitter just
days ago. Yes, the BLM movement was founded by three African-American women with longtime Marxist
backgrounds: Alicia Garza, Opal I. Tometi, and Patrisse M. Cullors. Its
original Platform (issued in August 2016, but scrubbed up a bit in its more recent iteration) called for collective ownership of all resources, the breaking
up of banks, redistribution of wealth by way of confiscatory taxes on ‘high
earners,’ free health care, and free education. Truly, Karl Marx would have
blushed.
But back to the question of how
BLM rioters came to be rampaging through Jewish neighborhoods of Los Angeles,
CA, reportedly shouting “F___Jews”, and spray painting “F___Israel” and “Free Palestine” on the walls of the Congregation Beth Israel and at least four
other synagogues. How did Jews come to be collectivized into the enemy “white privilege
proletariat” class by these BLM Marxists?
That original BLM Platform
also explicitly supports
the BDS (Boycott, Divest, and
Sanction) movement. Another indicator comes from Cullors (who organized the 30
May pogrom in LA): she reportedly told a New York Times reporter, “Let’s go into the
heart of what is symbolically white in Los Angeles, which is Beverly
Hills…These people need to hear our pain and our grief. We wanted to bring this
to communities who often aren’t dealing with police violence.” No matter the color of their skin, therefore, Jews are going to
be labeled “white”—as a pejorative from which it is always going to be
impossible to escape. It goes back farther than that, however. By 2015, BLM
representatives traveled to the Middle
East to make common cause with
Palestinians in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. Fast forward to late May 2020, shortly
after the death of George Floyd, and the Democratic Socialists of America’s BDS
national working group blatantly tried to link that killing to Israel, by
claiming that U.S. police forces learned riot control techniques from Israeli police. Then, on June 1, Al-Awda, the Palestinian Right of Return
Coalition, published a hideous cartoon at its website showing an Israeli soldier with his knee on the neck of a
keffiyeh’ed Palestinian, arm-in-arm with an American police officer with his
knee on the neck of a black man. The article it accompanied was entitled “Al-Awda PRRC statement
of solidarity for Black lives and Black struggle.”
The BLM’s Marxist agenda is on
full display across America today. Exploitation of the insurrectionist riots in
which it plays a leading role to demonize Jews and Israel is, too.
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