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Fri Mar 3, 2023, 06:51 AM Mar 2023

Farrakhan Predicts Another Holocaust, Espouses Antisemitism and Bigotry in Saviours' Day Speech

The Nation of Islam (NOI) held its annual Saviours’ Day conference in Chicago the weekend of February 24–26, serving once again as a platform for vitriolic antisemitism and anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry.

Saviours’ Day 2023 marked the annual event’s return to a large-scale arena setting for the first time in three years; the NOI held smaller, semi-virtual conferences during the intervening pandemic-era years. NOI speakers injected familiar antisemitic and conspiratorial rhetoric into the weekend’s activities, capped off by longtime NOI leader Louis Farrakhan’s keynote address on Sunday afternoon.

The NOI has targeted Jews extensively during Farrakhan’s 40-plus-year tenure as the group’s leader and repeatedly dismissed accusations of antisemitism. The NOI made this focus particularly clear in recent months as the organization sought to insert itself into the national debate over antisemitism following the Ye and Kyrie Irving controversies, promoting content about Jews and antisemitism in their social media posts, weekly sermon broadcasts and newspaper articles.

Farrakhan directly addressed the NOI’s long history of antisemitism in his speech on Sunday, demonstrating his obsession with Jews and affirming the NOI’s position as a leading promoter of antisemitism in America today.

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As reported all over the media.

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Farrakhan Predicts Another Holocaust, Espouses Antisemitism and Bigotry in Saviours' Day Speech (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 OP
is he still alive? BlueWaveNeverEnd Mar 2023 #1
That was my reaction! Haggard Celine Mar 2023 #2
He's 89. DavidDvorkin Mar 2023 #3
Ticket master sold the tickets Mosby Mar 2023 #4

Mosby

(16,252 posts)
4. Ticket master sold the tickets
Sat Mar 4, 2023, 11:30 AM
Mar 2023

And FB and YouTube streamed it on their platforms even though it violated their policies.

This shows how seriously people take antisemitism.

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