Nadene Goldfoot
- The Nation of Islam (NOI), the largest Black nationalist organization in the U.S., has maintained a consistent record of antisemitism and bigotry since its founding in the 1930s.
- Examples:
- (1)“These same Jews that are attacking the Minister are the blood relatives of the slave ship owners.”,
- (2)“Also pushing the federal government are the wicked members of the Jewish community, who have opposed every good deed and all of the good works of a good man.”
- (3)“Jews have been conclusively linked to the greatest criminal endeavor ever undertaken against an entire race of people … the black African Holocaust. … The effects of this unspeakable tragedy are still being felt among the peoples of the world at this very hour.”
– The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews (NOI book), 1991
Today her charges, the ladies on the view, shocked me again by praising Malcolm X, who to me, was a known anti-Semite along with Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. They were anti-Semites when young Jewish men from colleges were helping the Black Movement as best they could, some dying for it. This was a bigger faux pas than Whoopie's was, even though this is Black History Month. They thought he was a great person! Whoopie wasn't there to set them straight.
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and anti-Semite yet saying he was a human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the black community. Besides his skill as a speaker, Malcolm X had an impressive physical presence. He stood 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighed about 180 pounds (82 kg). One writer described him as "powerfully built", and another as "mesmerizingly handsome ... and always spotlessly well-groomed".
Louis E. Lomax said that "those who don't understand biblical prophecy wrongly label Malcolm X as a racist and as a hate teacher, or as being anti-white or as teaching Black Supremacy".Malcolm X was accused of being antisemitic according to statements he made. What amazes me is that Lomax thinks he's an expert in bible prophecy. In 1959, Lomax told his colleague Mike Wallace about the Nation of Islam. Lomax and Wallace produced a five-part documentary about the organization, The Hate That Hate Produced, which aired during the week of July 13, 1959. The program was the first time most white people heard about the Nation and its leader, Elijah Muhammad, as well as its charismatic spokesman, Malcolm X, considered the Nation's #2 man.
In 1961, Malcolm X spoke at a NOI rally alongside George Lincoln Rockwell-center in picture above, the head of the American Nazi Party; Rockwell claimed that there was overlap between black nationalism and white supremacy.
Remember the Muslim Englishman who broke into the Texas synagogue just recently who thought Jews had the power to get out the worst female terrorist in America from prison? Malcolm X thought the same thing back in 2013.
This was the mid-1950s to the mid-60s — picture Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. marching arm-in-arm from Selma to Montgomery. And James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, murdered while organizing to register black voters in Mississippi.
Judaism teaches respect for the fundamental rights of others as each person's duty to God. "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor" (Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a). Equality in the Jewish tradition is based on the concept that all of God's children are "created in the image of God" (Genesis 1:27). From that flows the biblical injunction, "You shall have one law for the stranger and the citizen alike: for I, Adonai, am your God" (Leviticus 24:22).
American Jews played a significant role in the founding and funding of some of the most important civil rights organizations, including the NAACP, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The Nation of Islam, Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan, group, was against the Martin Luther King and the NAACP.
While segregation was still the law of the land, Hillel professionals hosted an "Inter Racial Conference" at the Southeastern Hillel Conference, 1948.
Institution: Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.
In the newspaper, Hoosier, Malcolm X stated that "Jews bought their equal rights and have hurt the Negroes by not instructing them how to better themselves economically. "The Jew is always anxious to advise the Black man," he said. "But they never advise them how to solve their problem the way the Jews solved their problem. The NAACP had Jewish lawyers working to help and not taking fees, and Malcom X said that that was not enough. The Jew never went sitting-in, crawling-in, and sliding-in and helps Negroes to do." The Jews stood up, stood together, and they used their ultimate power, the economic weapon. Jews pooled their money, bought the hotels that barred them. They bought Atlantic City and Miami Beach and anything else they wanted. With money donations, the Jews gain control. Then he sends the Black man doing all this wading in, boring in, even burying in, --everything but buying in, never showing him how to set up factories and hotels; never advises him how to own what he wants to. No; when there's something worth owning, the Jew's got it.
Malcolm X then lumped the Jews in with the total white race in saying that the white man's primary interest is not to help the Black people but to make money and exploit him. The white man is interested in the Black man only to the extent that the Black man is of use to him," he said. "Any white man is against Blacks!"
Why, even the white man took the Hungarian question to the U.N. And just this week, Chief Justice Goldberg was crying over three million Jews in Russia, about their human rights – charging Russia with violating the U.N. Charter because of its mistreatment of the human rights of Jews in Russia. Now you tell me how can the plight of everybody on this Earth reach the halls of the United Nations and you have twenty-two million Afro-Americans whose churches are being bombed, whose little girls are being murdered, whose leaders are being shot down in broad daylight? Now you tell me why the leaders of this struggle have never taken [recording impaired ] [their case to the U.N.?
This would be very frustrating for Blacks to swallow when they were being abused. We have had 2 huge problems coming from one source: the fact that the majority people cannot tolerate someone who is different regardless of religion or race; just different. It takes someone special to break from this mold and have empathy and give aid to those different people.
Malcolm X, after his 1964 pilgrimage to Mecca
One of the goals of the civil rights movement was to end disenfranchisement of African Americans, but the Nation of Islam forbade its members from participating in voting and other aspects of the political process. The NAACP and other civil rights organizations denounced him and the Nation of Islam as irresponsible extremists whose views did not represent the common interests of African Americans.
From his adoption of the Nation of Islam in 1952 until he broke with it in 1964, Malcolm X promoted the Nation's teachings. These included beliefs: Remember, Louis Farrakhan and Malcolm X were teaching these:
- that black people are the original people of the world
- that white people are "devils" and
- that the demise of the white race is imminent.
Black-Jewish Relations in the South
As far back as the 19th century, Jewish storekeepers were virtually the only Southern merchants who addressed black customers as “Mr.” and “Mrs.” and permitted them to try on clothing. By the early 20th century, a few Southern Jews even ventured to speak out against the evils of white supremacy. In 1929, Louis Isaac Jaffe, editorial writer for the Norfolk Virginia-Pilot won the Pulitzer Prize for his denunciation of lynching and the reactionary Harry Byrd political machine.
