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CHICAGO — Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking “repair of my people from the damage” he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries.

Farrakhan sent the letter along with two books from the Nation of Islam Historical Research Team that the 77-year-old minister said prove “an undeniable record of Jewish Anti-Black behavior,” starting with the slave trade and Jim Crow laws.

“We could charge you with being the most deceitful so-called friend, while your history with us shows you have been our worst enemy,” he wrote.

Farrakhan has long accused Jews of wrongdoing in speeches, but he has rarely addressed Jewish groups so directly in writing.

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group which distributed copies of the letter, said in a statement Tuesday that Farrakhan’s “anti-Semitism is obsessive, diabolical and unrestrained. He has opened a new chapter in his ministry where scapegoating Jews is not just part of a message, but the message.”

In the letter, dated last Thursday, the Chicago-based Nation of Islam leader said he sought a dialogue with Jews. He sent the letter to groups including the Orthodox and Reform movements, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and the American Jewish Committee, a New York-based advocacy and humanitarian nonprofit that spearheads inter-religious dialogue.
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“This is an offer asking you and the gentiles whom you influence to help me in the repair of my people from the damage that has been done by your ancestors to mine,” he writes. “Your present reality is sitting on top of the world in power, with riches and influences, while the masses of my people … are in the worst condition of any member of the human family.”

In the past, Farrakhan’s most inflammatory comments have included referring to Judaism as a “gutter religion” and calling Adolf Hitler “wickedly great.” Recently, he has railed against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which he claims is conspiring to trap the U.S. in a war with Iran.

Farrakhan echoed similar comments last Saturday in an Atlanta speech titled, “Who Are the Real Children of Israel?”

He did not respond to several messages seeking comment Tuesday. Farrakhan has over the years denied claims of anti-Semitism, arguing his remarks are often taken out of context and that criticism of Jews in any light automatically earns the “anti-Semite” label.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Caveman1816/ Caveman1816

    what a dope!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    He never called Judaism a gutter religion.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MR_NANASTROKER/ MR_NANASTROKER

    Interesting nonetheless

    furthermore,
    given that history of being the front supporter and the OZ of agenda’s formatted against the true hueman……I wonder which or whom would be the first 2 denounce Farrakhan for at the VERY LEAST ignitiating the first BLOW let’s see how this plays out

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kjw_south/ kjw_south

    This man is a racist and a zealot. Why he has respect in our community is a great question and a great shame. He should be shunned by us like whites are expected to shun overt racists among their population.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/odoggz/ odoggz

    what would be interesting, is to see him put out a bunch of claims that seem to be as close to the truth, that we see before our eyes, and have people make the connection like “oh snap, that’s actually true”. Instead, he’s combated by being made to look like a nut job, which discredits him immediately. He comes too hard at them, he’s muslim and black so that’s double the pain, and non-followers are taught to ignore him. He might be on to something, but instead of saying it ‘mater of factly’, it’s become a mission.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mmmjb2003/ mmmjb2003

    It only took four comments–befor–step&fetch it showed up, to denounce the very man and organization that truely has a real ‘Black Agenda’–First of all I am an Atheist–so don’t hit me with the Islam thing…The Minister has asked for a ‘sit-down’ with whom he is accusing–He is no fool and like any good Laywer would tell you–Don’t ask the question–that you don’t already know the answer. I would just like to see the ‘accused’ meet with him and attempt to refute his commments. Instead they will badger him in the media..and the general-negro will think that white is right(as usual) and dismiss anything the Minister has to say. Whites don’t shun their ‘racist groups’–they make quiet donations to their causes…SHEEP!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    How about charging some Black’s with ANTI-BLACK BEHAVIOR? The Thug’s, The Criminals & Gangbangers who are BOLDLY snuffing out more Black’s than the KKK EVER got the chance to! HOW ABOUT THAT??? Farrakhan is worring about Jewish Folk and/or Non Black Folks S**T! He NEED’s to bark at how the Black Fool’s in the City of Chicago is snuffing out their own! LOOK IN THE MIRROR MR. FARRAKHAN! CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE BEFORE YOU START TALKING ABOUT HOW OTHER’S DON’T CLEAN THERES!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mmmjb2003/ mmmjb2003

    Well said–ODOGG–He already has…It’s out there…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mmmjb2003/ mmmjb2003

    What Toni–doesn’t understand is many ‘groups’–come and throw garbage in the black community–so along with our own madness–we take on others’ too–Two examples—Ever seen a black business in Chinatown(they won’t even lease you property in their neighborhoods). Or try to buy goods internationally for sale in the U.S. and see how much resistance you get…Not that it can’t be done–but the deck is stacked…If you are unaware of that—You answer your own question…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Toni_Anthony/ Toni_Anthony

    To mmmjb2003: To answer your question of, IF I’d EVER seen a Black Owned Business in China Town, NO! But on the OTHER hand I don’t see a lot of BLACK OWNED BUSINESS’S IN BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD’S EITHER, SO HECK? Which Way Is UP! One thins I’ll say about the NONE Black Race? All Other’s Stick Together, Help Each Other Out & Hold Each Other Up. I’ve taken the higher road in my life when it came to combat of any nature with one of my own! I’d always let them get the last word, I’d alway’s go the other way BUT if I’m backed into a corner, or my livelyhood is on the line, I see NO color, no race, no sex! It’s A** kicking time for sure! The self appointed so called BLACK LEADERS in my opinion might as well have a F**ken White Sheet Over their Faces because the out come of what they do to their own race is equal in a lynching anyway!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bvince/ bvince

    “Who Are the Real Children of Israel?” Well, that’s the Million Dollar Question isn’t it? Black people should know the answer to this one:look in the mirror.

    @Toni_Anthony,
    -To quote Khalid Abdul Muhammad “Have you forgotten that once we were brought here, we were robbed of our name, robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god…and many of us, by the way we act, we even lost our minds.”

    *Emphasis on the last part.*

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    I have my issues with Min Farrakhan, but one thing I know for a FACT, these allegations that he supposedly made, are really just direct quotes from JEWISH WRITERS and Scholars. So I ask, AM I a racist or Zealot, if I quote Jewish scholars and writers that expose Zionists for there dirty tricks?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TheMistressofMayehm/ TheMistressofMayehm

    Louis Farrakhan is just once again proving his idiocy. Anyone who claims to have gotten on a spaceship and visited his deity on the other side of the moon is not someone I would ever take seriously.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kayluv40/ kayluv40

    I personally thank god for Minister Farrakhan, for if it was not for him I would still be as lost as most of the Black People that I see everyday. For anyone to call this man crazy or a fool read the Willie Lynch letter to the slave masters and then tell me who the fool is. This man was sent from god to light our way through the darkness and give us the truth in a world of lies, and I’m very thankful for him!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/alanidmc/ alanidmc

    I’m with kayluv40.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/killasweet82/ killasweet82

    he need so stop beefing with one set of people and work on getting our reporations(40 acres and a mule)

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Harvey33/ Harvey33

    Until I hear Farrakhan say he said or in this case wrote these thing I don’t belive anything the white owned media has to say. Remember what they did to Malcolm X ,King the Black Panthers, Jackson, Al Rev.Wright Micheal Jackson, Tyson ,Gates, West Vick and lets net forget Acorn now there going after the new Black Panthers.And I tell you this watch FOX CNN MSNBC AND YOUR LOCAL NEWS and NEWSPAPERS. What he has said about Jews are on point. The are sneaky as Hell.And he never called Judaism a gutter religion they been telling that lie for nearly 30 years now. Any time a black person call them out they are called Anti-Semitic or reverse racist. They control the media and banks. I’m not lying about this Hell I’m not a Muslim. If we would only listen to him and then make judgement we would be in a Better place. If they were so pro black why don’t they come out and call out the right when they call the President Hitler? There is a reason why no one trust them.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/arthur47lim/ arthur47lim

    MINISTER FARRAKHAN HAS NEVER LIED TO US.(TO ALL BLACK NAYSAYERS WHY DOES OUR ENEMIES NOT COME OUT AND CALL HIM ,HIS LECTURES,AND THE BOOKS LIES?)INSTEAD THEY KNOW HE NOT LYING.SOME MY FOOLISH,SCARED PEOPLE BELIEVE OUR ENEMIES ON FACE VALUE ALONE.IF HE HIS LIED PROVE IT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Star_Maker77/ Star_Maker77

    I am not Muslim but Minister Faraakhan Has Always Told The Truth. He will Keep His Black People Informed About How Life and The World of The White Man Really Is. I was told many years ago that it was the Jews that was really making the world turn in many areas of life, such as the diamond trade, war, poverty,housing, and the entertainment industry. But it was Minister Faraakhan it was him that really broke it down to the last common denominator. Thank you Minister Faraakhan For Keeping It Real. Thank you For The TRUTH…………….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Charmed2Def/ Charmed2Def

    He’s right. Just look at the federal reserve, or the usery committed at the expense of elderly folks’ hard-earned retirement money. Were Israel built on the Rhine, the world would be a better place.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blackcaesar3k5/ blackcaesar3k5

    AIPAC has too much political clout in Washington.. They were responible for getting rid of progressives in congress such as Cynthina McKinnley and Earl Hillard back in 02.. Heck, it was jew that funded that KKK after the Civil War…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bluestars02/ bluestars02

    SINCE MAN STEP FOOT ON EARTH,DECEIT HAS BEEN AROUND. WE NEED TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE,WHICH IS THE LORD GOD. WHEN WE ARE CORRUPT, HE DOES GET ANGRY WITH US AND TAKES HIS SAVING HAND OFF, THE SITUATIONS IN THE WORLD.
    (REV.2:9)IT GIVES INSIGHT TO WHAT WE’VE BEEN WARNED,BUT NOT HEARING. FARRAKHAN IS TRYING TO LIGHT UP THE MINDS OF US (BLACK FOLKS). MARJORITY OF US ARE LEFT DIGGING OUR MINDS OUT OF WONDERFUL LIES TOLD… IF YOU STUDY, YOU WILL LEARN THAT MOST JEWS STILL SEEK A SIGN,GREEKS SEEK WISDOM. WHAT A DAY IT WILL BE, WHEN WE FIND OUT HOW CLOSE ALL MEN ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD ARE REALLY RELATED…
    UNTIL THEN “YOU HAVE TOIL FOR NOTHING; AND BITTERNESS IS YOUR FOOD IN DEATH.

    PLAY THE FOOL AND YOU LOOSE THE GAME.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/daeondrapearl/ daeondrapearl

    Ha Ha what a looser!~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tyron50/ tyron50

    It’s funny how people on Black Planet criticize Louis Farrakhan in his message , but none have prove that what he said was false.. It is easy to demonize a man and say terrible things about him to taint his image but, i been studying him since i was a child and i never then or now seen or heard a rabbi,Priest,Imam,Scholar,Teacher,Leader,President,Pope prove that he was a liar now that’s very interesting.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sistersisterfla/ sistersisterfla

    The jews are ready to disembowel anyone who might be financing terrorist organizations dedicated to driving israel into the sea but discount jewish financing of slavery. I believe all of this nazi imagery we are seeing is inspired by jews. This is america. what do we know of nazi, facism, socialism? They know all about it which is why this country is beginning to resemble pre-ww2 nazi germany; as a direct consequence of their excess control of america.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DrAvril/ DrAvril

    Work in a Jewish controlled company or hospital and you will understand what Farrakhan is saying. It will be like working with Klansmen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/I_Like_Thugz/ I_Like_Thugz

    sorry, but I cant wait till this man dies.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supermike64/ supermike64

    Does anyone KNOW that these same Jews that many ignorant black folks defend Have a religous (non Judaism) book Talmud that teaches them being black is a curse that was put on us? (they actually belive that and are taught that)

    Do the black people that defend so called Jewish people know that Jesus went through the same thing with the same type of people and it tells you in you bible that Jesus called some of them “the synagouge of satan” So is Jesus antisemetic?

    These people have made up another religon beside Judaism (which is righteous) Look up Mosaic law.

    Do the blacks that defend these people called Jews know that their great state of Israel tryed to give racist South Africa nuclear weapons? They were caught killing people for worldwide organ trafficing after the Hati Earthquake. Look these things up do stay ignorant.

    Minister Farrakhan doesn’t get money from them he works and lives and survives by uplifting BLACK PEOPLE!!!!! He has been doing this for 50 years!!!
    If Minister Farrakhan is telling us they are bad news He has more of a stake in our success than these misleading demons.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/supermike64/ supermike64

    to (I-like-thugz )
    You will be dead b4 him because he knows how to eat to live. You seem to be partial toward self destruction.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Harvey33/ Harvey33

    I_Like_Thugz you should Die or someone should kill you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Phillymann/ Phillymann
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