Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who for decades has spoken of the “satanic” Jews who control the government and Hollywood and once called Hitler a “great man,” claims his poisonous reputation is a “false narrative.” ” driven by anti-Islam. Defamation League.
Farrakhan, 90, has filed a $4.8 billion lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court against the civil rights group, accusing it of interfering with his First Amendment rights by wrongly labeling him an anti-Semitic.
“This lawsuit is intended to ensure that the abuse, misuse, and false use of the terms ‘anti-Semitic,’ ‘anti-Semitic,’ and ‘anti-Semitism,’ as falsely accused by the [ADL] is permanently prohibited from being a tool to defame [Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam] and stifle the exercise of constitutional rights,” he maintains in court documents.
Farrakhan maintained that he “has never touched a single Jewish person’s hair or even advocated for it,” and boasted that he “honors, respects and even admires many members of the Jewish community, including his childhood idol and one of the biggest”. violinists, Jascha Heifetz, who was a Russian Jew, and his own Jewish violin teachers.”
He called his contentious relationship with the ADL a “battle of biblical proportions” and bolstered his court filing with 787 pages of “supporting” documents.
Farrakhan and the ADL have been at odds since 1984. Getty Images
Farrakhan has referred to Jews as “termites”; He allegedly called Judaism a “rogue religion” and proclaimed that “the powerful Jews are my enemy.”
“Jews have been so bad at politics that they lost half their population in the Holocaust,” he said during a 1998 speech.
“Jews are responsible for all this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out there: turning men into women and women into men,” he said most recently, in 2018.
The Anti-Defamation League is “an anti-American organization and has woven itself into both the fabric of the United States government, in general, and local governments within the United States, in particular, to promote interests that are un-American to the extent that they tramples on and hinders the constitutional rights of Minister Farrakhan and American citizens,” he said in the lawsuit.
The dispute began in 1984, according to Farrakhan, when he supported then-presidential candidate Jesse Jackson after he was accused of referring to Jews as a racial slur.
Farrakhan insists that the ADL is the “main proponent” of falsely labeling some celebrities as anti-Semites. Getty Images
“It is because of Minister Farrakhan’s unwavering defense of himself and Reverend Jackson that the ADL began attaching the false and insulting label ‘anti-Semitic’ to him,” Farrakhan said in court papers.
While the ADL does not typically comment on litigation, director Jonathan Greenblatt told The Post that the lawsuit “has no merit.
“Louis Farrakhan is an anti-Semite. “You don’t have to look any further than his own words and statements to come to the same conclusion,” he said.
Farrakhan’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
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