Louis Farrakhan is an American political activist and the leader of the Nation of Islam. Throughout his career, Farrakhan has frequently been accused of making anti-Semitic statements.
Farrakhan has charged Jews with controlling the economy, pushing America into wars, keeping black people impoverished and portraying them negatively in mass media.
On numerous occasions, Farrakhan has accused Jews of being heavily involved in the slave trade. "Listen, Jewish people don’t have no hands that are free of the blood of us. They owned slave ships, they bought and sold us. They raped and robbed us."
Farrakhan's organization, The Nation of Islam, released a book titled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. The text stereotypes Jews as being obsessed with money, while accusing them of initiating the slave trade. Farrakhan promoted it as factual and well researched. The ADL has called the book "a mendacious work of anti-Semitic propaganda", while it has been criticized by some of America's leading African American studies scholars.
Farrakhan has also made statements accusing Jewish bankers of financing Hitler and the Holocaust. In a speech in Chicago, he was quoted as saying that "The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road."
You say I hate Jews. I don't hate the Jewish people, I never have. But there [are] some things I don't like. 'What is it you don't like, Farrakhan?' I don't like the way you leech on us. See a leech is somebody that sucks your blood, takes from you and don't give you a damn thing. See, I don't like that kind of arrangement. You become our manager, you become our agent. Every one of us that got talent, we can't make it because you opened the door, and when you opened the door you get and we end up dead with nothing, owing the IRS.
