Current Events > Louis Farrakhan suing the ADL for $5 billion over antisemitism claims

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Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who for decades has spouted off about Satanic Jews who control the government and Hollywood and once called Hitler a great man is claiming his venomous reputation is a false narrative pushed by the Anti-Defamation League.

Farrakhan, 90, has filed a $4.8 billion Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit against the civil rights group, accusing it of interfering with his First Amendment rights by wrongly labeling him an antisemite.

This lawsuit is to ensure that the abuse, misuse, and false use of the terms anti-Semite, anti-Semitic, and antisemitism, as falsely charged by the [ADL] is permanently barred from being a tool to defame [Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam] and stifle the exercise of constitutional rights, he contends in court papers.

Farrakhan contended he has never harmed a hair on the head of any Jewish person or even advocated for such, and boasted he honors, respects, and even admires many members of the Jewish community, including his boyhood idol and one of the greatest 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 buttressed his court filing with 787 pages of supporting documents.

Farrakhan has referred to Jews as termites; allegedly called Judaism a gutter religion, and proclaimed the powerful Jews are my enemy.

The Jews have been so bad at politics 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: turning men into women, and women into men, he said more recently, in 2018.

The Anti-Defamation League is an unAmerican organization and has woven itself into the fabric of both the United States government, in general, and into local governments within America, in particular, to advance interests that are unAmerican to the extent that it tramples and trammels upon 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 with a racial slur.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/21/louis-farrakhan-adl-falsely-accused-me-of-antisemitism/

hope they countersue and win

So his influence is flagging and he needs a high profile shitstorm to put his name back in the news.

Gosh, I hope that the ADL has good lawyers.

I thought he was dead.

mercurydude posted...

I thought he was dead.

awful people always live forever

Is there a way for them both to lose?

'just because I praise Hitler, hate Jews and think they control everything and are out to get me doesn't make me an anti semite'

Uh huh

Fuck Farrakhan

What, he was great in Public Enemys bring the noise

who was that garbage poster here that used to fellate this dude all the time

Wow why not five trillion?

DarthAragorn posted...

who was that garbage poster here that used to fellate this dude all the time

I forget the name, but if it's the same guy I'm thinking of,he put me on ignore because I criticized the NOI.

Not sure what more he could really do to establish himself as more of an antisemite, short of goosestepping.

DarthAragorn posted...

who was that garbage poster here that used to fellate this dude all the time

2pacaveli. He has me blocked because I kept assuming he was a white conservative posing as a NOI devotee.

Interfering with his 1A rights? Imbecile. This gobshite, like so many others, always fail to read the first word of the first amendment that punches a city sized hole through his pathetic assertation.

Lmao, maybe him and Muskrat can file a class action together.

Doofuses.

The ADL has certainly weaponized claims of antisemitism in the past against anyone critical of Israel's policies, especially recently. That being said, in Farrakhan's case they are absolutely correct. Dude is a raging anti-semite.

DarthAragorn posted...

who was that garbage poster here that used to fellate this dude all the time

2Pacaveli, pretty sure he was an actual member of the Nation of Islam.

In his defense, his followers think the word antisemitic means something other than the actual definition. Guess he thinks now that Jews arent all that popular given what is going on in Gaza, he might as well see if he can get twelve morons to agree with him.

Getting twelve people to be impartial on that jury would be tough.