For nearly 30 years, Louis Farrakhan has marked himself a notable figure on the extremist scene by making hateful statements targeting Jews, whites and homosexuals.

Farrakhan's bigoted and anti-Semitic rhetoric has included statements calling whites "blue eyed devils" and Jews "bloodsuckers" that controlled the slave trade, the government, the media, Hollywood and various Black individuals and organizations. He frequently denies that Jews have a legitimate claim to their religion and to the land of Israel.

On June 26, 2010, Farrakhan delivered an an address rife with anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories about Jews and Israel. In an attempt to craft an argument that Blacks, not Jews, are the “real” children of Israel, he downplayed historical Jewish suffering, accused Jews of world domination and promoted anti-Semitic charges of Jewish deicide. He also repeated many of his past accusations about Jewish involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, Jewish exploitation of Black labor in the cotton trade, and Jewish control over government, finance and entertainment.

During his address, Farrakhan heavily promoted the second volume of the anti-Semitic book The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. The new volume, subtitled, “How Jews Gained Control of the Black American Economy,” blames Jews for promoting a myth of black racial inferiority and makes a range of conspiratorial accusations about Jewish involvement in the slave trade and in the cotton, textiles, and banking industries.

Farrakhan’s June 26 speech and an equally anti-Semitic follow-up speech he delivered in Chicago two weeks later are the latest in a series of highly offensive addresses he has delivered in the last year. During his keynote address at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours’ Day event in Chicago in February 2010, Farrakhan accused "Zionists" of controlling Congress and the Obama Administration and advanced long-standing conspiracy theories about Jews and money.

In July 2009, Farrakhan delivered an anti-Semitic tirade during a speech about Michael Jackson, alleging that that Zionist Jews are out to sabotage influential African Americans and claiming that the performer suffered at the hands of powerful Jews throughout his career.

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