Louis Farrakhan in Iran (Wikipedia)
Louis Farrakhan’s $4.8 billion defamation lawsuit brought last year against the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) has been dismissed. Manhattan Federal Court Judge Denise Cote ruled that Farrakhan failed to bring evidence in support of his claim that his reputation suffered injury at the hands of the defendants.
In response to the news, the ADL released a statement saying, “Truth is a defense and no, we will not stop calling out antisemitism wherever and whenever we see it.”
The organization also provided an extensive list of Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic rhetoric over the years.
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The idea that a man like Louis Farrakhan can claim that calling him an anti-Semite is slander is patently absurd. This is the man who once called Judaism a “gutter religion.”
He also once called Adolph Hitler a “great man.”
Louis Farrakhan claimed that his lawsuit was intended “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.”
The ADL said of him, “For more than 30 years, Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), has been a notable extremist figure, railing against Jews, white people and the LGBT community.”
Some other wonderful things he has said about Jews include:
“When you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”
“Satan is going down. Farrakhan has pulled the cover of the eyes of the Satanic Jew and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.”
“The Jews were responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out: turning men into women, and women into men.”
“I don’t care what they put on me. The government is my enemy, the powerful Jews are my enemy.”
“Those who call themselves ‘Jews,” who are not really Jews, but are in fact Satan: You should learn to call them by their real name, ‘Satan;’ you are coming face-to-face with Satan, the Arch Deceiver, the enemy of God and the enemy of the Righteous.”
