Louis Farrakhan

Louis Eugene Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933) is an American religious movement leader, political activist and writer. 

Overview
Ideologically, Louis Farrakhan is a Black supremacist. He is the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), a movement founded on a unique interpretation of Islam.

Life
Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Wolcott in The Bronx, New York. He started playing the violin when he was six years old. He went to the Boston Latin School. Farrakhan now lives in Kenwood, Chicago. In 1953, he married Khadijah Farrakhan. They have nine children. In 2007, he retired at the age of 73.

Popularity

In 2020, he was classified by the American civil rights group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as the most popular antisemite in America.

Racism
Farrakhan is well-known for his antisemitic and anti-White views, despite his and his group's denial.

1980s
In June 1984, Farrakhan went to Libya to visit her dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Upon return, Farrakhan smeared Judaism as a "gutter religion [...] structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit" that "abused" God's name for self-defense. In 1985, at an NOI meeting, Farrakhan said that the Jews deserved the Holocaust by screaming that "And don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever!"

Connections with White supremacists

In September 1984, former KKK member Tom Metzger donated $100 to Farrakhan's NOI after being impressed by his antisemitic rhetoric at a Los Angeles event, 



  a prejudice shared by both White supremacists and Black supremacists. The donation was followed by Metzger's gathering of 200 White supremacists to pledge support for Farrakhan's NOI.

1990s
In 1995, Farrakhan accused Jews of causing the Holocaust themselves, a false claim common among antisemites, 









  by alleging that "German Jews financed Hitler right here in America [...] International bankers financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust".

2010s
In March 2015, Farrakhan accused "Israelis and Zionist Jews" of being involved in the September 11 attacks, while believing that Jews control mass media and the Hollywood to "turn man into women and women into men". On October 16, 2018, he implied that Jews were termites by posting on Twitter that "I'm not an anti-Semite. I'm anti-Termite." On July 4, 2020, he also accused Jonathan Greenblatt, a Jewish American serving as ADL's CEO, of being "Satan masquerading as a lawyer", while gaslighting the public by denying that he is antisemitic: "If you really think I hate the Jewish people, you don't know me at all [... I've never] uttered the words of death to the Jewish people." In addition, he has been the biggest promoter of the disproven conspiracy theory that "Jews ran the Atlantic slave trade", which is believed by many Islamists worldwide.

Related pages
 Black nationalism
 Islam and fascism
 Black Hebrew Israelites
 Secondary antisemitism
 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

References

Category:Racism in North America
Category:1933 births
Category:Antisemitism
Category:Living people
Category:African-American people
Category:American political writers
Category:American political commentators
Category:American Islamic religious leaders
Category:Activists from Chicago
Category:Writers from Chicago
Category:Religious leaders from Chicago
Category:Writers from New York City