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Spur Hateful Acts
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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, second from right, the Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr., center, and - other civil rights activists march arm-in-arm in
defiance of segregationist authorities in Selma, Ala., on March 21, 1965.
Folly Of Farrakhan
ews not only had a dis-
proportionate role in the
trans-Atlantic slave trade,
but also are to blame for all black
suffering since that dark period in
U.S. history.
But that's not all.
The dastardly Jews also
are seeking to push
America into war with
Libya and Iran.
So claims the Nation
of Islam and its anti-
Semitic leader, the Rev.
Louis Farrakhan.
Further, he ridicules
the "Nazi-like State
of Israel" and blames
America's ills on
Jewish-controlled halls of govern-
ment, business, finance, entertain-
ment and the press.
Farrakhan is spiritually uplift-
ing for believers; and that's
troubling. Over the years, he
has branded Judaism a "gut-
ter religion" and conducted an
unabashed hate crusade against
Jews. Why he feels this way isn't
clear. Nor is it clear why scape-
goating Jews has escalated from
being just part of a message to
being the message. His defaming
tirades have alienated Jews and
whites — and civilized blacks.
"Listen, Jewish people don't
have no hands that are free of the
blood of us:' Farrakhan railed a
few years back in a Black History
Month speech in Chicago. "They
owned slave ships; they bought
and sold us. They raped and
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robbed us." He said Jews lack the
courage to atone and repent.
Jews did sell, own and abuse
slaves, but while horribly wrong,
that does not excuse the Nation of
Islam for falsely inflating our role
and influence in slav-
ery. Jews did fight on
the Confederate side;
the highest-ranking
Jew in the Civil War
was Attorney General
Judah Benjamin under
Confederate President
Jefferson Davis. But
many more Jews fought
on the Union side and
supported abolition.
And in modern times,
Jews have fought for civil rights
and racial equality for blacks. I've
never met a Jew proud of Jewish
slavers.
When Farrakhan raps about
black empowerment, I wonder
how he defines it. Consider his
longstanding alliance with Malik
Zulu Shabazz, the racist leader
of the New Black Panther Party,
who sympathizes with Hamas and
Hezbollah — and who claims that
U.S. support of Zionism was the
root of why so many people died
on 9-11.
Bizarre Forum
Once more, the Nation of Islam's
annual Saviours' Day proved
an exercise in Jew-hating and
Zionism-bashing. Once more,
Farrakhan's keynote address
cackled with wild conspiratorial
claims.
The opening salvo of the 2011
gathering of Nation brothers came
Feb. 27 in a session titled "The
Secret Relationship
Between Blacks and
Hate-Filled
Jews. The title was
Accusations
Farrakhan is a minis-
taken, interestingly
ter who preaches that
enough, from a two-
the Talmud teaches
volume history, actu-
that blacks were
ally an anti-Semitic
cursed; that "poor
screed, published by
Jews died while big
the Nation's historical
Jews were at the root
research department
of what you call the
(if that's a reputable
Rev. Farrak han
Holocaust"; and that
department, research
Jews plotted to cruci-
has hit rock bottom).
fy Jesus. Anti-Defamation League
It's no surprise that Saviours'
(ADL) national director Abraham
Day speakers declared that Nation
Foxman describes Farrakhan's
books (and their anti-Semitic
anti-Semitism as "obsessive,
undercurrents) should be taught
diabolical and unrestrained."1
in schools nationwide.
couldn't agree more.
Hatred of Jews has become
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wo days after a Jewish settler family of five
was stabbed to death in their home by suspect-
ed Palestinian terrorists, the governing political
party in the West Bank named a town square after a
heinous Palestinian Jew-hater.
The depraved naming was not shocking given the
Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority's penchant for
effectively ignoring incitement to hatred and murder
against Israelis, most notably Jews.
The P.A. has a history of naming streets, schools,
squares, youth camps, playgrounds, sports tourneys
and events after "martyrs" who slaughtered Jews.
"Martyr" is a code word for Palestinians who "give"
their life in acts of terror against Israelis, in deference
to Allah.
On March 12, Fatah named a square in Al-Bireh, out-
side the West Bank capital of Ramallah, after Dalai
Mughrabi, the woman who led the 1978 hijacking of
two buses along the coastal road between Tel Aviv and
Haifa; 37 Israelis, including 13 children, died along with
Mughrabi and at least eight other hijackers. The nam-
ing ceremony boasted Palestinian flags and posters
of Mughrabi holding a Kalashnikov rifle with a map of
Israel, labeled "Palestine," behind her.
The P.A. is the recipient of $600 million to $1 billion
in annual U.S. aid. Under the right conditions, it also
can count on Israeli and U.S. support for Palestinian
statehood. But once more, the P.A. has glorified a ter-
rorist while continuing to incite the hatred and murder
of Jews through the West Bank's official newspaper as
well as its classrooms, music videos and speeches.
Such glorification has become routine, punctuating
the P.A. belief that it's a high calling to die murdering
Israelis – "infidels" who occupy "Palestinian" land not
only in the West Bank, but also inside the Green Line.
Only last November, the P.A. honored Amin Al-Hindi,
mastermind behind the Black September Arab terror-
ist group's murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches
and one West German police officer at the 1972
Summer Olympics in Munich. The P.A. named the
Fifth Convention of the Fatah Revolutionary Council in
Al-Hindi's honor.
The Western world seems unable, or unwilling, to
hold the P.A. accountable. The Zionist Organization of
America rightly said the P.A. "knows from experience
no one will hold it to account; that no one will take note
and alter their policy toward it. It knows it will pay no
price. This is precisely what must change."
The Palestinian Authority must be held firmly to the
accountability fires by the West, including America, for
the culture of hate it cultivates, beginning with kids
who grow up believing "martyrdom" is more inviting
than life!
Ponder that insidious cultivation as the civilized
world mourns the brazen killing of Israeli settlers Ruth
and Udi Fogel and their three young children in Itamar,
near Nablus – a couple evacuated from Gush Katif in
the Gaza Strip in 2006, but who believed in the settler
movement. 1 I