Louis Farrakhan (archive photo)
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Farrakhan ‘reading list’ includes anti-Israel books, ADL says
Jewish organization says Nation of Islam’s ‘racist’ leader recommended books that purport to expose ‘the truth’ about Jews; Jimmy Carter’s book on Israel-PA conflict also on reading list. ‘Leopard hasn’t changed his spots,’ Abe Foxman says
“Minister Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic and racist leader of the Nation of Islam, concluded his Saviors’ Day address by recommending to his audience several notoriously anti-Semitic and anti-Israel books,” the Anti-Defamation League said Tuesday.
“Farrakhan may have held his anti-Semitic views in check while on the dais, but if this is what he wants people to read, then the leopard hasn’t changed his spots,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.
“Minister Farrakhan’s reading list includes books that purport to expose ‘the truth’ about Jews and their control of the federal banking system or their role in the African slave trade. It’s a shame that Farrakhan had an opportunity to change his legacy, and he didn’t,” added Foxman.
The ADL said in a statement that “Toward the conclusion of his Saviors’ Day address at Ford Field in Detroit, which was described as his last major speech, Minister Farrakhan told his audience, ‘I want you to become readers’ and put these names down.’
According to the ADL, among the authors and books Farrakhan recommended were:
- The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which argues that the history of slavery in the New World was dominated by Jewish ship owners and merchants. The book presents a multi-layered attack against the Jewish people, assaulting the integrity of the Jewish religion, the meaning of Jewish history, and the foundations of Jewish scholarship upon which the book’s own fraudulent charges are based.
- The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, an anti-Jewish conspiracy theory propagandist, one of the key conspiracy books claiming that the banking system in the U.S. is controlled by a few elite families (most of them Jewish). It is a key text used by anti-Semites on the far right.
- By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky, a discredited book that makes unsubstantiated claims about Israel’s Mossad.
- Palestine Peace Not Apartheid by President Jimmy Carter, a biased, simplistic and distorted view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that portrays Israeli policies in dealing with Palestinians in the territories as inherently racist.
- Copies of The Synagogue of Satan, written by nation of Islam member Ashahed Muhammad, which claims that the world is being manipulated and corrupted by Satanic powers led by Jewish elites, were available for purchase at the event.
