Jews Fare Well
In Farrakhan Talk

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Los Angeles (JTA) — Louis
Farrakhan attacked every-.
one from lesbians to black
college athletes in a speech
here last week, but this time
he pulled his punches on a
frequent target, the Jews
and Zionism.
In fact, the vitriolic Nation
of Islam leader urged 2,000
cheering fans at the Califor-
nia State University, Nor-
thridge evening to emulate
the Jewish community if
they want to rise above their
present deplorable condi-
tion.
During the course of a talk
that continued non-stop for
two hours and 10 minutes,
Mr. Farrakhan professed
himself an admirer of Jew-
ish education.

ing to elect black political
candidates, Mr. Farrakhan
said, "You can't fault the
Jews for being intelligent."
He added, "They put their
money where they can get
influence."
He did attack Jews for
supposedly forsaking the
teachings of their prophets,
but he leveled the same
criticism at Christians and
Muslims.
Always the consummate
showman, Mr. Farrakhan
regaled his almost ex-
clusively black audience of
students and their elders
with outrageous caricatures
and imitations of swagger-
ing black studs, limp-wristed
gay men, grunting black il-
literates, hypocritical white

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Louis Farrakhan appeared earlier this year at a New York rally.

"Jews are some of the most
successful people on earth,"
he said, or rather shouted, in
one of a series of back-
handed compliments.
Asserting that "success is
not a mystery; success is not
by chance," he pointed out
that "when you find a syn-
agogue, next to it you find a
shul.
"What is going on in
there? You don't know," he
said. "They're teaching their-
people from the tradition.
The school is teaching them
the history of themselves
and their culture, so that no
matter where Jews go, they
remain intact.
"Jews know who they are;
they know their origin in the
world; they know their his-
tory," he said. "But the
black has been deprived of
such knowledge."
Chastising African-
Americans for not mobiliz-

evangelists and sanc-
timonious churchgoers.
Other targets of his scat-
tershot rhetoric included TV
couch potatoes, MTV videos,
adulterated foods, black col-
lege athletes and college
educators.
Standing next to Blenda
Wilson, president of the host
campus and an African
American woman, Mr. Far-
rakhan lashed out at his
listeners and the higher ed-
ucation establishment by
maintaining that "you leave
college just as low-down,
savage and ignorant as you
came."
His audience cheered this
and every other insult, fre-
quently encouraging the
speaker with shouts of
"Teach (us)" and "You're
right."
If Mr. Farrakhan largely
eschewed his past anti-
Semitism on this occasion,