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May 23, 2018

The Return of Black Anti-Semitism

The dangers of fatalistic progressivism.

Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, returned to the public eye this year when a chairwoman of the anti-Trump Women’s March, having attended his annual “Savior’s Day” celebration—where he shared some of his poisonous anti-Semitic theories—praised him and then defended him against his critics. Separately, an African-American Washington, DC city councilman, also a Farrakhan supporter, gave a speech accusing the Rothschilds of controlling the weather. To James Kirchick, these and other incidents portend an upsurge of anti-Semitism among American blacks. He writes:

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