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Farrakhan Supporter Congressman Ellison Urges Boycott of Netanyahu Speech
"Minister Farrakhan is a tireless public servant of Black people"
February 4, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
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Keith Ellison's legislative aide is sending around a Dear Colleague
letter urging Congressmen to boycott Netanyahu's speech to Congress.
Ellison's initiative isn't surprising considering his history of
participating and supporting anti-Jewish racism during his association
with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.
In February 1990, Ellison participated in sponsoring Kwame Ture
(Stokely Carmichael) to speak at the law school on the subject "Zionism:
Imperialism, White Supremacy or Both?" Jewish law students met
personally with Ellison and appealed to him not to sponsor the speech at
the law school; he rejected their appeal, and, as anticipated, Ture gave
a notoriously anti-Semitic speech.
Ellison admits that he worked on behalf of the Nation of Islam in
1995. At a rally for the Million Man March held at the University of
Minnesota, Ellison appeared onstage with Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who ran
true to form: According to a contemporaneous Star Tribune article, "If
words were swords, the chests of Jews, gays and whites would be pierced."
In a November 6, 1995, column for the Minneapolis periodical Insight
News, Ellison wrote under the name "Keith X Ellison." He condemned a
Star Tribune editorial cartoon that was critical of Farrakhan as a role
model for blacks because of his anti-Semitism. Ellison argued to the
contrary.
Ellison’s involvement with the Nation of Islam includes his support
of “the truth” of Joanne Jackson’s condemnation of Jews in 1997 as “the
most racist white people.”
Then, in February 1997, Ellison appeared as a local spokesman for
the Nation of Islam with the last name "Muhammad." He spoke at a public
hearing in connection with a controversy involving Joanne Jackson of the
Minnesota Initiative Against Racism (MIAR). Jackson was alleged to have
said, "Jews are among the most racist white people I know." Jackson
denied making the statement or insisted that it had been taken out of
context. Ellison appeared before the MIAR on behalf of the Nation of
Islam in defense of Jackson's alleged statement. According to the Star
Tribune and the full text of the statement published in the Minneapolis
Spokesman-Recorder, Elli son said:
We stand by the truth contained in the remarks attributed to [Ms.
Jackson], and by her right to express her views without sanction. Here
is why we support Ms. Jackson: She is correct about Minister Farrakhan.
He is not a racist. He is also not an anti-Semite. Minister Farrakhan is
a tireless public servant of Black people, who constantly teaches
self-reliance and self-examination to the Black community. . . . Also,
it is absolutely true that merchants in Black areas generally treat
Black customers badly.
The last sentence alluded to another of Jackson's alleged
statements, providing a personal basis for characterizing Jews as "the
most racist white people" she knew.
As if to shore up his identity as a Muslim activist, the executive
director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Nihad Awad, flew
to Minneapolis to appear as a featured guest (along with Ellison himself
and Guantánamo chaplain James Yee) at an Ellison fundraiser in suburban
Minneapolis on August 25. Awad is notable, among other things, for his
past expressions of support for Hamas.
Congressman Keith Ellison is a racist and his history of anti-Semitism
makes it obvious why he would take the initiative in calling for a
boycott of a Jewish leader appearing in Congress.
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About Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center,
is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/louis-farrakhans-brfirst-congressman/article/13892
THE MAGAZINE: From the October 9 Issue
Louis Farrakhan's
First Congressman
Why was the press so incurious about the past of Keith Ellison?
Oct 09, 2006 | By Scott W. Johnson
Minneapolis
AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME in history, it is a matter of note that Congress
is about to re ceive its first Muslim member. Keith Ellison, currently a
Minnesota state representative, is poised to succeed 14-term incumbent
Democrat Martin Sabo in the Fifth District, which includes the city of
Minneapolis. Ellison's endorsement by the Demo cratic-Farmer-Labor party
is tantamount to his election in what is one of the safest Democratic
seats in the country. Thus, at age 43, Ellison stands positioned not
only to win that office but also to hold it as long as he chooses.
Ellison's Muslim faith has generated no controversy in the campaign. On
the contrary, it has served to insulate aspects of his public record
from close scrutiny in a city whose dominant news organ, the Minneapolis
Star Tribune, is a paragon of political correctness. With the exception
of columnist Katherine Kersten, the Star Tribune has scrupulously
avoided examining Ellison's long train of troubling associations,
foremost among them his ties to the Nation of Islam.
Ellison's record also includes a multitude of embarrassments of the
traditional kind. He fell afoul of the IRS after failing to pay $25,000
in income taxes; he ignored fines that he had incurred for parking
tickets and moving violations so numerous that his driver's license was
suspended more times than he can remember; he was fined for willful
violation of Minnesota's campaign finance reporting law. It amounts to a
striking pattern of lawbreaking since he undertook the practice of law
in 1990.
But it was the link to the Nation of Islam that stood as the most
serious impediment to Ellison's primary campaign. He addressed it in a
letter to the local chapter of the Jewish Community Relations Council
following his endorsement by the DFL in May. In the letter, Ellison
asserted that his involvement with the Nation of Islam had been limited
to an 18-month period around the time of the Million Man March in 1995,
that he had been unfamiliar with the Nation of Islam's anti-Semitic
views during his in volvement with the group, and that he himself had
never expressed such views. The Star Tribune has faithfully parroted
these assertions as facts.
As a result, the three assertions have become the cornerstone of
Ellison's campaign, securing him the support of prominent Minneapolis
Jews and the endorsement of the Minneapolis-based American Jewish World
newsweekly. Nevertheless, a little research reveals each one of them to
be demonstrably false. Ellison's activities on behalf of the Nation of
Islam continued well beyond any 18-month period, he was familiar with
the Nation of Islam's anti-Semitic views, and he himself mouthed those
views.
Ellison was born Catholic in Detroit. He states that he converted to
Islam as an undergraduate at Wayne State University. As a third-year
student at the University of Minnesota Law School in 1989-90, he wrote
two columns for the Minnesota Daily under the name "Keith Hakim." In the
first, Ellison refers to "Minister Louis Farrakhan," defends Nation of
Islam spokesman Khalid Abdul Muhammad, and speaks in the voice of a
Nation of Islam advocate. In the second, "Hakim" demands reparations for
slavery and throws in a demand for an optional separate homeland for
American blacks. In February 1990, Ellison participated in sponsoring
Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) to speak at the law school on the
subject "Zionism: Imperialism, White Supremacy or Both?" Jewish law
students met personally with Ellison and appealed to him not to sponsor
the speech at the law school; he rejected their appeal, and, as
anticipated, Ture gave a notoriously anti-Semitic speech.
Ellison admits that he worked on behalf of the Nation of Islam in 1995.
At a rally for the Million Man March held at the University of
Minnesota, Ellison appeared onstage with Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who ran
true to form: According to a contemporaneous Star Tribune article, "If
words were swords, the chests of Jews, gays and whites would be pierced."
Even in 1995, Ellison's work on behalf of the Nation of Islam extended
well beyond his promotion of the Million Man March. That year, he
dutifully spouted the Farrakhan line when Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter
of Malcolm X, was indicted for conspiring to murder Farrakhan. Ellison
organized a march on the U.S. attorney's office in Minneapolis demanding
that Shabazz be released and alleging that the FBI itself had conspired
to kill Farrakhan. In a November 6, 1995, column for the Minneapolis
periodical Insight News, Ellison wrote under the name "Keith X Ellison."
He condemned a Star Tribune editorial cartoon that was critical of
Farrakhan as a role model for blacks because of his anti-Semitism.
Ellison argued to the contrary.
Then, in February 1997, Ellison appeared as a local spokesman for the
Nation of Islam with the last name "Muhammad." He spoke at a public
hearing in connection with a controversy involving Joanne Jackson of the
Minnesota Initiative Against Racism (MIAR). Jackson was alleged to have
said, "Jews are among the most racist white people I know." Jackson
denied making the statement or insisted that it had been taken out of
context. Ellison appeared before the MIAR on behalf of the Nation of
Islam in defense of Jackson's alleged statement. According to the Star
Tribune and the full text of the statement published in the Minneapolis
Spokesman-Recorder, Elli son said:
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