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July 3, 2012 8

Farrakhan Leads Audience in Anti-Semitic Tirade

Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Far­rakhan used his plat­form at the NOI’s Mosque Maryam in Chicago on Sun­day to lead his audi­ence in an anti-Semitic tirade.

Towards the end of his remarks, Far­rakhan made a bizarre com­par­i­son between the study of ants and white peo­ple. “The Hon­or­able Eli­jah Muham­mad says to study [white peo­ple]. They’re suc­cess­ful. They make no excuses for their fail­ures. They work hard in a col­lec­tive man­ner like the ant….Their long coevo­lu­tion with other species has led to mimetic, com­men­sal, par­a­sitic, and mutu­al­is­tic relationships.”

He then brought Jews into the comparison:

Go back to the Secret Relationship[Between Black and Jews] …White peo­ple are wise and the wis­est of white peo­ple are the mem­bers of the Jew­ish community…They are wise and they are the guards of their own world. Are you mad with me for say­ing that? [Audi­ence: “No sir!”] You can’t go nowhere in their world with­out pay­ing obei­sance to them.

Far­rakhan then engaged in a dis­turb­ing call-and-response with his audience:

Far­rakhan: How many of you are lawyers? Only have one in the house? No won­der we go to jail so much, brother. But at the top of the law pro­fes­sion, who are the top in law?
Audi­ence: Jews.
Far­rakhan: Sorry I didn’t hear you.
Audi­ence: Jews!
Far­rakhan: Any doc­tors in the house? Ain’t got no doc­tors? Oh there’s one way in the back. At the top of the med­ical pro­fes­sion, the top in that are mem­bers of the Jew­ish com­mu­nity. Any­body in media? Who’s the top in that field?
Audi­ence: Jews.
Far­rakhan: Any­body a rap­per in the house? There’s rap­pers. You can rap, ain’t noth­ing wrong with that, but at the top of that are those that con­trol the indus­try. Any of you have Hol­ly­wood ambi­tions, Broad­way ambi­tions… Who’s the top of that?
Audi­ence: Jews.
Far­rakhan: Same peo­ple! They’re mas­ters in busi­ness. Well I’m not a busi­ness­man I’m a banker. Well who’s the mas­ter of the bankers?
Audi­ence: Jews.
Far­rakhan: TALK TO ME!
Audi­ence: Jews!
Far­rakhan: You don’t dis­credit them because they’re mas­ters, you dis­credit them by the way they use their mastery.
Audi­ence: [applause]
Far­rakhan: Now, I close.

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April 5, 2012 8

FAU Students Latest Target of Anti-Israel Mock Eviction Tactic

The mock evic­tion notices taped on more than 200 dorm room doors at Florida Atlantic Uni­ver­sity last week are part of an ongo­ing cam­paign by an anti-Israel cam­pus group to raise aware­ness to its cause through shock tactics.

Stu­dent lead­ers of FAU’s Stu­dents for Jus­tice in Pales­tine (SJP) chap­ter said that the fliers are designed to show how Pales­tini­ans expe­ri­ence evic­tion from their homes by the Israeli gov­ern­ment. The stu­dents also indi­cated that they had received prior approval from the Hous­ing and Res­i­den­tial Life Depart­ment at the university.

SJP is a stu­dent orga­ni­za­tion with more than 75 chap­ters at Amer­i­can uni­ver­si­ties. As the pri­mary orga­nizer of anti-Israel activ­ity on cam­pus, SJP has con­sis­tently demo­nized Israel, describ­ing its poli­cies toward the Pales­tini­ans as racist and apartheid-like, and com­pared Israelis to Nazis.

This is not the first time SJP mem­bers have used mock evic­tion notices on cam­pus. In April 2011, sim­i­lar mock evic­tion notices were dis­trib­uted in stu­dent dor­mi­to­ries at Yale Uni­ver­sity to crit­i­cize the “actions of the Israeli state” and to pro­mote the group’s upcom­ing events. The group said in a press release that it aimed to star­tle Yale stu­dents and give them a sense of what evicted Pales­tini­ans must feel.

A month later, stu­dents from the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago’s SJP sim­i­larly dis­trib­uted the evic­tion notices through­out three res­i­dence halls as part of SJP’s annual “Nakba” Com­mem­o­ra­tion Week.

Dur­ing the 2011 Amer­i­can Mus­lims for Pales­tine (AMP) National Con­fer­ence, a vir­u­lently anti-Israel orga­ni­za­tion that aids and assists SJP activ­i­ties nation-wide, Uni­ver­sity of Chicago SJP pres­i­dent Sami Kishawi took credit for his SJP chapter’s method of activism. He also claimed that the mock evic­tion tac­tic has proven to be as effec­tive as SJP’s use of mock-checkpoints, which Kishawi explains also helps expose daily Pales­tin­ian humil­i­a­tion to a large num­ber of students.

As was the case at the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago and at Yale, the evic­tion fliers at FAU were seen by some stu­dents as dis­re­spect­ful and intimidating.

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