What sanitizing Louis Farrakhan tells us about the West

(October 22, 2020 / JNS) The writer Bari Weiss, who resigned in the summer from The New York Times in protest at its tolerance of anti-Semitism and refusal to publish opinions which challenge the left-wing consensus, continues on her painful political journey.

Last week, she wrote a cri de coeur in Tablet magazine. She pointed out that there were now so many examples of bigotry against Israel and the Jews among progressives, including New York’s Ethical Culture Fieldston School hosting a speaker who equated Israelis with Nazis, the Joe Biden campaign apologizing to the anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour after initially disavowing her and marchers in D.C. chanting “Israel, we know you, you murder children, too,” that it was time Jews stopped being shocked and trying to excuse it all away.

Liberalism, said Weiss, was under siege from a mixture of “post-modernism, post-colonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and the therapeutic mentality” going by the names of “social justice” or “therapeutic totalitarianism.”

All too true, alas, as some of us have been pointing out for years. The point that Weiss may not have quite appreciated, however, is that if she thinks the weight of this evidence will now persuade liberal American Jews that it’s finally time to face reality, she is tragically mistaken. The vast majority won’t accept it. Not now; not ever.

The evidence, after all, has been out there for a long time and has been as unambiguous as it has been ominous. One of the most egregious examples, the behavior of the Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, serves as both a demonstration of and an important contributor to this moral and political rot.

Farrakhan has been spouting eye-watering anti-Jewish rhetoric for nearly half a century. He has praised Hitler as a “very great man,” compared Jews to termites, accused them of controlling the U.S. government and called them members of the “Synagogue of Satan.” He’s an out-and-out crackpot who believes that that Hollywood Jews spread homosexuality to weaken black people, and that the “white race” was created by a mad scientist on an island 40,000 years ago.

Nevertheless, he has had a huge influence on black communities through backing black activism and organizing social-service programs in low-income black neighborhoods. Such communities have welcomed all of this as a message of empowerment. But they have also absorbed Farrakhan’s anti-white, racist rhetoric of resentment along with his visceral Jew-hatred.

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