[ April 20, 2024 ]
Jewish leaders are outraged over the presence of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at Aretha Franklin’s funeral — and with good reason.
Farrakhan’s one of the loudest voices of anti-semitism today.
And he wasn’t just standing in the back of the crowds at Franklin’s funeral. No, he was right at the forefront.
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Farrakhan was actually placed center stage, alongside other notables like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Bill Clinton.
From the Algemeiner:
Jewish leaders voiced outrage on Sunday over the prominent attendance of Nation of Islam leader and notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan at legendary singer Aretha Franklin’s funeral on Friday.
Farrakhan was given a front-row seat on the dais, sitting next to controversial African-American leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and only three seats away from former president Bill Clinton.
Louis Farrakhan, front and center, treated like royalty? What is this obsession with America's Black Hitler? In spite of his crude, vicious comments about Jews, whites, gays, he is placed up front with President Clinton? Shocking! pic.twitter.com/0Q3d8yKDXR
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) August 31, 2018
“It was absolutely jarring to see one America’s leading purveyors of antisemitism given a place of such prominence at Aretha’s funeral,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League told The Algemeiner. “We join the country in mourning the Queen of Soul but this was an honor that an unapologetic hatemonger like Farrakhan didn’t deserve.”
Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a statement to The Algemeiner, “Like millions of other Americans who grew up listening to Aretha Franklin’s amazing voice, I was saddened by her passing. Putting Louis Farrakhan in a seat of honor in the first row on stage, near President Clinton and amidst a generation of African American political and religious leaders was equally saddening.”
“50 years ago Aretha Franklin received an award from Martin Luther King Jr. and toured the country to raise money for the struggling Civil Rights Movement,” he added. “For decades Farrakhan has stood against everything MLK lived and died for. He hates America and hates Jews. Aretha Franklin wasn’t a hater. The sight of his smiling face on stage soured the heartfelt music and words during the marathon tribute to a great icon.”
“We were dismayed to learn that Farrakhan was seated in a prominent place at the funeral of a widely revered artist,” said Betty Ehrenberg , executive director of the World Jewish Congress North America. “And it is equally dismaying to see him being admired by some newly emerging activists and candidates for office who should not associate with an unapologetic antisemite with a long history of racist views.”
Veteran Jewish leader Abraham Foxman, head of the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, told The Algemeiner, “Sadly the African-American community has a blind spot when it comes to antisemitism. They have always given a pass to Louis Farrakhan’s racism and antisemitism. They don’t recognize him as a racist and antisemite, and that’s sad for the relationship between our two communities.”
Speaking on Fox and Friends on Sunday morning, academic, attorney, and activist Alan Dershowitz expressed disappointment with Clinton’s appearance alongside Farrakhan, “I know there was a relationship 30 years earlier between Louis Farrakhan and Aretha Franklin. I don’t know if that relationship continued, or whether the family invited him, but I think any president should have said, ‘No. If you want me on the stage, you can’t have a bigot like Farrakhan sitting next to me.’”
“You just can’t mainstream and allow legitimacy to a man who has expressed the kind of hateful views he’s expressed of Jews, of white people, of gays,” he added.
Democratic New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind was particularly strident, tweeting, “Louis Farrakhan, front and center, treated like royalty? What is this obsession with America’s Black Hitler? In spite of his crude, vicious comments about Jews, whites, gays, he is placed up front with President Clinton? Shocking!”
The NOI chief is notorious for his vicious antisemitism. At a sermon in May, he said, “Whenever you read that God has told the Jews to hear and obey, and they say, ‘I hear and I disobey,’ that’s Satan. … [The Jews] are openly disobeying God,” railed Farrakhan. “He [a Jew] will take down the whole world with him.”
“Do you know that many of us who go to Hollywood seeking a chance have to submit to anal sex and all kinds of debauchery, and they give you a little part? It’s called the casting couch,” he added. “See, that’s Jewish power.” Farrakhan regularly refers to Jews as “the synagogue of Satan.”
Farrakhan issued a statement detailing his relationship with Franklin shortly after she died last month, saying, “In 1972, when I was minister in New York City, Temple No. 7, the police attacked our mosque. Within a few hours, Aretha Franklin came to the mosque, to my office, and said that she saw the news and came as quickly as she could to stand with us and offer us her support.”
“We marveled at her show of courage, fearlessness which was rooted in her profound love for her people and her desire for justice for us,” Farrakhan added.
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27 Comments
5 years ago
Qur’an fags book followers
5 years ago
Seriously, why is this a surprise? Farrakhan and Franklin have been BFF’s, for close to half a century. “R E S P I C T” Of course, that wasn’t Calypso Louie, but it’s another of his BFFs.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
Ms. Geller, talk to Jews and tell them what the DEMS have turned into as a party!
Farakhan doesn’ t get banned from Facebook!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Those you speak of are Looney Leftist Liberals first and foremost, and Jews as a footnote so they can be as antisemitic as they want and throw out the Jew Card if called on it.
They are the same “jews” that supported Hitler to the end.
5 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
What In the world does miceycain have to do with Franklin’s funeral and her BFFs?
5 years ago
I laugh at this outrage over a nothing burger. Martha MacCallum here is the instigator-in-chief, seeking to create a crisis out of nothing, instead of worrying about actual physical attacks against Jews in Europe.
5 years ago
Reply to
aemoreira1981
I simply laugh at moslems. Seeing a moslem saves a trip to the zoo.
5 years ago
Left/Liberal and jihadis think the same. Both are anti-semites .
And Turkey govt allows organ harvest of prisoners and orphaned children killing them in the process http://tinyurl.com/mfpzzl8
And this country is NATO member ! Left/liberals are ok with organ harvesting by killing babies too !
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
5 years ago
5 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
Now I understand what they mean when they say that Trump is worse than Hitler.
5 years ago
I have no doubt Aretha Franklin would NOT have wanted him at her funeral.
Muslims LOVE Hitler!
5 years ago
Upsetting indeed; however, this is the new America or the America for which the Democrats endeavor. The America of Sharia Law, an Islamic State from coast to coast. The funeral was not about or for Aretha, it was a showcase for the leftist progressive fascists to display their might. The might, albeit was no more than a shameless display of narcissism and pomposity of recycled, rehashed politicians, perverts (Slick Willy), subversives and, those continuing to ride on the coattails of Martin Luther King Jr. None of it was mind-blowing, Obama alongside Farrakhan, two of a kind, Slick Willy revealing, he remains a sexual predator. Shameless, an eight-hour display of self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement; the MSM’s coverage betrayed its and the entertainment industry’s biases and shallowness.
The Jewish leaders are not alone in their outrage; nevertheless, no one can be truly shocked about this audacious and fallacious display.
5 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
Farrakhan is the polar opposite of MLK. MLK was against Antisemitism, and Farrakhan by his own admission is the Black Hitler. Farrakhan has claimed MLKs followers as his own, but not his ideals or vision.
Like muslims always do, they steal other peoples history and accomplishments.
5 years ago
Reply to
Nefarious420
Of course, the reason he is held in high esteem by the perfidious like of Obama and others of his Muslim sort. Farrakhan could run for the Democrat’s nomination and if not win come close. Antisemitism is now the bedrock of the Democrats. Islam, as said, steal and distort history to meet their agenda, as do the Democrats. The Democrats profess to praise, MLK but their predilection is for the perfidious, Jew-hater Farrakhan.
5 years ago
It says a lot that even liberal Jews don’t really like this guy.
5 years ago
Look at these Negroes. All SICK before their time due to being FOOL of hate instead of gratefoolness of the white people. Negroes NEVER had it so good and still continue their delight in their waycism.
Why, one of them became white because of it.
5 years ago
Reply to
VTS
They are NEGROES. They are not the ethnic lieberal slur of “bl*ck” or “n*gg*rs you lieberals are so fond of calling your plantation slaves.
5 years ago
And Jewish leaders weren’t concerned about Jackson, Sharpton and Clinton being there? Someone needs to retrace the histories of all three and see just how pro-Israel they really are, and not just Farakkhan.
They, all, belong together. I’m old, and informed, enough to remember…
5 years ago
the new democratic party that I fled and never looked back. it is well beyond outrage to know there is enough support to continue to have a democratic party that is anti american anti western civilization anti semitic. worse, illiterate, ignorant and corrupt stirring the bottom of the pot non stop until we have civil war here.
5 years ago
What happened with Keith Ellison and son of a B.itcH. Obama? How could they ignore such a big “family” gathering? Does it mean that Michelle will be running in 2020?
5 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Congressmen Hakim Muhammad (Keith Ellison),… too busy beating up girlfriends !!
5 years ago
Seems Farrakhan’s natural father was Jewish (according to bibliography) who left him at age 6 months, might explain his pathological hatred for the Jews…..He also seems to hate women, as in a sermon he told them to go to hell if they couldn’t cook…… if that wasn’t bad enough, also raved on about how great Hitler was, so the guy is an evil nutter of the highest order.
5 years ago
There’s no secret that the majority of powerful black leaders embrace islam, Jewish hatred and most of all hatred against white citizens.
