Note to Conyers:

History of Selective Use of Anti-Semite Label Vindicates Farrakhan

In an interview with Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman, former Israeli Education Minister Shulamit Aloni said this of the charge of anti-Semitism:

What Ms. Aloni is describing is the very skullduggery used against the noble work and reputation of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.  Minister Farrakhan remains the beloved champion of truth and heroic strong man of the liberation struggle for poor and oppressed peoples around the world.  Yet the price he has had to pay for speaking the truth is to suffer being called an anti-Semite and all that comes with that negative designation.  However those who have falsely accused the Minister have actually revealed more about themselves and their true motives and intentions.

The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that both the American slave master and the European colonizer used the artful science of “tricks and lies” to master the original people of the Earth.  Ms. Aloni’s statement bears witness that the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s taught us the truth.  Her statement goes to the heart of the false labeling of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan as an anti-Semite. More plainly, this is a trick that has been played on the general public who are often forced to admire, respect, support and even love Minister Farrakhan in veritable secret, or otherwise suffer by being accused of allowing their admiration to provide legitimacy for an alleged “anti-Semitic hate teacher.” Some are affected by the trick to the point that they have developed outright negative opinions of Minister Farrakhan on the basis of his criticism of Jewish influence.

But criticism of the Jewish community and the policies of Israel are not de facto anti-Semitism.  This is what propagandists like the ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center and Southern Poverty Law Center would like for us to believe.   When legitimate criticism is mischaracterized as anti-Semitism, it is done to obfuscate or hide the truth.  These so-called anti anti-Semitic watchdog groups have actually been criticized by avowed Farrakhan-critic Rabbi Michael Lerner.  In his book, co-authored by Dr. Cornel West, titled Jews and Blacks: Let the healing begin he writes:

A youthful Lerner in 1969 also expressed sentiments that agree with Minister Farrakhan and other Black leaders.  The Tikkun magazine editor once wrote that Black criticism of Jews is “rooted in the concrete fact of oppression by Jews of Blacks in the ghetto.”  Lerner referred to this as an “earned” criticism.

In the mistreatment of Minister Farrakhan by these propagandist money driven groups, Black people en masse have suffered the most.  For all of the economic programs and unity efforts advanced by Minister Farrakhan to uplift Blacks in America from poverty and want, have been undermined by these groups whose efforts are no less racist and anti-Black than that of the Ku Klux Klan.  Maybe this is why when  in 1991 Klan wizard David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana, the ADL was mute, claiming that their tax exempt status prevented them from intervening in a political campaign.

Tax exempt status concerns where a non-issue in 1984 when Rev. Jesse Jackson ran for the office of the President of the United States of America. The ADL actively engaged in sabotaging Rev. Jackson’s campaign, even working to destroy his candidacy before it got started!  According to Daniel Levitas of the Center for Democratic Renewal,

Matters got even worse when Rev. Jackson was accused by reporter Milton Coleman of using a Jewish racial slur when referring to Jews in New York.  This caused Rev. Jackson to apologize publicly to the Jewish community for using the term “Hymietown,” to which ADL director Nathan Perlmutter responded

Perlmutter attacked Rev. Jackson whose run for the presidency symbolized the collective hopes and dreams of all Black people at that time.  Perlmutter cared nothing for this fact; he viewed Blacks as an “underdog” people without any defense or aid.  His vile reference to Rev. Jackson as a whore is definitely a tongue- in- cheek remark.  By his own admission, the ADL practiced Black-baiting for money.  In its own publication, “Not the Work of a Day”: ADL of B’nai B’rith Oral Memoirs, Vol. 1, former ADL director Nathan Perlmutter bragged about how much money the ADL made from the vilification of Rev. Jackson.  The mailing for donations after they made Rev. Jackson a Black boogeyman was so successful, Perlmutter wrote that:

 Author Micah L. Sifry in his 1993 article in The Nation magazine entitled Anti-Semitism in America raises serious questions about the selective use of the term “anti-Semite.”  Within his inquiry he exposes these groups kowtowing to powerful whites who have not only spoken against Jews but have acted against the Jewish people. Sifry points out that in 1990 political commentator Pat Buchanan blamed the Israel Lobby and Jewish geopolitical strategists for America’s use of force against Saddam Hussein.  Sifry notes that it was anti-Semitism watchdog William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review, who quickly offered a defense for Buchanan by writing that he did not believe that Buchanan was anti-Semitic but just “attracted to mischievous generalizations.”  These groups often demonize Minister Farrakhan for saying once that Hitler was wickedly great.  But in 1977 Pat Buchanan wrote that Adolf Hitler “was also an individual of great courage, a soldier’s soldier” and possesses “extraordinary gifts.”  I guess from Buchanan it is a “mischievous generalization,” but from Minister Farrakhan it is anti-Semitism?

Sifry also notes Buchanan’s orchestration of President Reagan’s laying a wreath at the tomb of German SS soldiers. Sifry writes,

According to Sifry, the ADL claimed that they couldn’t verify that Buchanan actually made those statements. Really?

Sifry also questions the ADL response to Fred Malek and Pres. Richard Nixon.  Malek provided for President Nixon a list of Jews in the Labor Department and some lost their jobs as a result of this.  Malek then years later goes on to become a high level advisor to Reagan Vice-President George Bush.

To this the ADL’s Abraham Foxman called Malek’s involvement in fellow Jews losing their jobs,

We might understand Foxman’s response as genuine were it not for what Sifry reveals of what the ADL wrote about the so-called individual who had [prejudiced] feelings that Malek worked for.  The Watergate tapes of President Nixon reveal Nixon calling Jews “kikes” and complaining their prevalence in the Arts and advising his staff to stay away from them.  Yet according to Sifry the ADL said,

“Richard Nixon is indeed a friend of Israel and his views on foreign affairs merit regard.”

All this evidence points to the ulterior motives of racism, fear mongering and money scheming on the part of the so-called anti anti-Semitic watchdog groups. These groups falsely label Minister Farrakhan as an anti-Semite to support their economic interests not because he is a threat to Jewish people.  For when confronted with real anti-Semitism, these groups make calculated decisions based on who they think is the weakest target.  It is time out for these tricks, artifices and devilish wiles.  If what Minister Farrakhan is teaching is not the truth why not call Rock Newman and schedule a showdown so the public can once and for all separate fact from fiction, truth from falsehood; the real anti-Semite from fake one.