New York, NY, April 11, 1995...No matter how hard Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam (NOI) tries to sanitize its public image, its racist anti-Semitic rhetoric hasn't changed at all, according to a report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate charges that Farrakhan and the NOI have "breathed new life into the long-discredited anti-Semitic myths of the white hate movement" while at the same time distracting public scrutiny with positive publicity about the NOI's economic exploits.

"Over the past weeks Farrakhan and his supporters have again made scurrilous attacks on Jews, even charging that Jews are responsible for the Holocaust and financed Hitler's killing machine," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director. "It is a particularly cruel attack coming at a time when we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II and the liberation of Hitler's concentration camps. Farrakhan's unrelenting campaign of hate should be condemned by all Americans."

Farrakhan freely quotes anti-Jewish accusations from a book by conspiracy theorist Gary Allen. The NOI leader praises the book lavishly, stating that he would like to have 10,000 copies so everybody could read it.

The ADL report suggests that publicity surrounding the NOI's security firms, farming activities and new Chicago-based restaurant is designed to cultivate an image of Farrakhan as a responsible community leader. The report warns that Farrakhan's rhetoric tells a different story and reveals a frightening agenda.

The following are excerpts from Farrakhan's remarks over the past 12 months which are documented in the report:

_ March 19, 1995 at the Mosque Maryam, Chicago, IL: "The international bankers have always wanted what they called a "balance of power in the world... The Warburgs, the Rothschilds who financed Hitler. German Jews financed Hitler right here in America.... International banks financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust....Little Jews died while big Jews made money. Little Jews [were] being turned into soap while big Jews washed themselves with it...."We [blacks] didn't kill one Jew...We were not involved there...That was your white brother, Hitler...How in the hell can you call us anti-Semitic?" _ February 26, 1995: Saviour's Day speech in Chicago: "They [banks] would loan money to both sides in the conflict, `cause they really didn't care who won or who lost. I mean it's hurtful, but a Jew--Rothschild--loaned money to Adolf Hitler. A Jew. Rothschild. Goddamnit you better not open your mouth to call me no anti-Semite! Rothschild and Paul Warburg loaned money. Hitler killed little Jews while Rothschild and Warburg stayed in the finest hotels in Europe. But damn it, if you can't call Rothschild anti-Semitic and Warburg an anti-Semite, then you don't open your mouth against me.

"In 1913, something happened. Four things were set up in the year 1913. First, the Federal Reserve Bank, the IRS, the FBI and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. All were set up in the same year. Is that a coincidence? Or is there a tie in?"

_ July 1, 1994 interview in the Baltimore Jewish Times: "The reason my research focused on the Jews was that when I mentioned Jewish involvement, there was an outcry...One of the faults we have with Jews is this: you are a very minuscule part of the population of America, but a very major part of the influence. What made you do that?...What do you know that makes you the powerful, influential and well-living people that you are? An what don't we know that makes us the weak, ineffectual, powerless, degraded people that we are?"

The following are excerpted from speeches delivered last year by Farrakhan's former national assistant, Khalid Abdul Muhammad. Parts of his hate-filled address to students at New Jersey's Kean College were reprinted by ADL in a full-page ad in the New York Times:

_ March 23, 1994: University of Wisconsin: "To the whites and `white Jews' in the audience, I say: It's gonna be a rough ride, buddy....Buckle your seat belts...because I didn't come to pin the tail on the donkey, I came to pin the tail on the honkey...bring me your rabbis and I'll strip your butts naked."

_ March 29, 1994: Friendship Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY: "Tell us you lost six million. Historians, scholars, scientist, they went to some of the death camps...it wasn't six million, it wasn't five million, it wasn't four million, it wasn't even three million....Some of them say we'd be hard pressed to get one and a half million...Everybody talks about what Hitler did to you. What did you do to Hitler...What made that man so mad at you?"

_ November 16, 1994, Bethel AME Church, New Haven, CT: "The true meaning of Christmas is heathen, vain, ignorant, backward, white pagan worship and idolatry."

The report was prepared by the Research and Evaluation Department of the ADL Civil Rights Division.

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.