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Wednesday, August 02, 2023

Guilt by Association: Case in Point, Farrakhan (Judean Rose)


Louis Farrakhan is a notorious antisemite. He really hates Jews. Ditto Roger Waters, and so many others. Like cockroaches, the antisemites never stop coming out of the woodwork. But how should we feel about those, like RFK Jr., who spend time with them?

 

Let’s say there is an intersection of interests, as in the case of Louis Farrakhan and RFK Jr. Is it right that RFK Jr. look away from the vile antisemitism of Farrakhan because they have similar views on vaccination? And if you make common cause with an antisemite, does it make you one, too? Is it right, morally, that RFK Jr., collaborate with Farrakhan on the issue of vaccination?

Some say we should give RFK Jr. a pass because there must be a viable Democratic alternative to Joe Biden in the 2024 election. But the stench of antisemitism lingers around this “viable” alternative to Joe. During the Million Man March of October 2015, Nation of Islam Western Regional Representative Tony Muhammad read a letter from Louis Farrakhan:

In the greeting words of peace, Asalam Aleikum. Brothers and sisters, I'm here to bring to you some vital information that has happened to our community and it has not been brought to the attention of black people throughout America. Four months ago, Bobby Kennedy, the son of Robert Kennedy, met with me in Los Angeles to give me some shocking and revealing and, I mean, terrible information on what is going on at the Center[sic] for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. It has been brought to our attention that the senior lead scientist for the Center[sic] for Disease Control has admitted that the MMR vaccine and many of the vaccine shots have been genetically modified to attack black and Latino boys.

I don't think you heard me. We are living in a wicked time where we are dealing with a spiritual wickedness that is in high places and the pharmaceutical industry alone with the American Medical Association have found a way like Pharaoh did when it was time for the Children of Israel for them to make an exit.

Pharaoh said, “Let us kill all boy babies two and under.”

Now they are trying to force vaccines on baby boys, at least 80 shots before they are three years old.

Was it wrong that RFK Jr. went to, of all people, Louis Farrakhan to share information on vaccines? Farrakhan is an antisemite, but both Farrakhan and RFK Jr. are against vaccination. They share a common cause. What, if any, are the moral implications of associating with known antisemites because of the intersection of special interests such as vaccination mandates?

RFK Jr. clearly saw Farrakhan as the representative of the black people on the issue of vaccination. And since RFK Jr. has an especial interest in vaccines and vaccine mandates, his interests nicely dovetail with those of Farrakhan, who has repeatedly spun antisemitic conspiracy theories about vaccination:

According to the Free Beacon, RFK Jr. and Farrakhan are “longtime allies”:

The Kennedy-Farrakhan courtship began in 2015, when Kennedy visited the Nation of Islam leader at his home in Chicago to discuss the measles vaccine administered routinely to young kids. Farrakhan said in a social media post after the meeting that the vaccine was "designed" to harm black males. "Some of us are afraid, but Mr. Kennedy found his way to our door," Farrakhan has said.

Kennedy now has vocal support from Farrakhan, who has praised Adolf Hitler, compared Jews to "termites," and maintains a massive following through the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan has credited Kennedy with introducing him to the controversial and widely disputed theory that childhood measles vaccines are linked to autism. Kennedy has cosponsored events with the Nation of Islam and its leader, whom he has praised as a "truly great partner" in the "battle" to publicize the autism theory.

Nineteen percent of Democratic voters say they support Kennedy over President Joe Biden, according to a Fox News poll. The anti-vaccine activist's popularity among Democrats could cut against the party's efforts to portray the Republican base as anti-science bigots. While Biden is still the heavy favorite, Kennedy's surprisingly strong numbers show that a sizable chunk of Democratic voters are open to supporting a candidate who has pushed anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

As the Free Beacon suggests, some say we need RFK Jr. as a viable alternative to Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination. Is this reason enough to support someone who makes common cause with antisemites? And for those who answer in the affirmative, do you tell yourselves (and others) that there is no proof that RFK Jr. is an antisemite?

More from the Free Beacon:

Researchers have largely disputed Kennedy's claims about the measles vaccine, asserting it is based on a misinterpretation of data regarding autism cases for children who have been vaccinated.

That hasn't deterred Kennedy and Farrakhan.

"I thank God for Minister Farrakhan for getting involved in this. He's been a truly great partner in this battle," Kennedy said at a protest with the Nation of Islam outside CDC headquarters in Atlanta in Oct. 2015.

The Nation of Islam in 2016 promoted Kennedy's film “Vaxxed,” which accuses the federal government of covering up a link between vaccines and autism in black children. Kennedy, who runs the anti-vaccine group Children's Health Defense, in 2017 hosted Nation of Islam officials at a press conference with actor Robert De Niro in which they promoted a vaccine-autism link. In 2021, Kennedy hosted Nation of Islam's Tony Muhammad for a discussion of Kennedy's documentary Medical Racism: The New Apartheid. Kennedy posited that health officials "are conducting an experiment on black Americans" by vaccinating black children against measles.

Kennedy debuted the documentary at a Feb. 2021 Nation of Islam conference, winning the praise of Farrakhan, who called the movie "brilliant."

Farrakhan and Kennedy carried their unlikely alliance through the coronavirus pandemic. During a 2020 speech in which Farrakhan called a vaccine a "vial of death," the preacher urged his supporters to "follow Robert Kennedy." In another speech that year, Farrakhan asserted that Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates had plotted to administer the vaccine across the globe to "depopulate the Earth."

Nation of Islam minister Ava Muhammad said at the event that the goal of the vaccine was to "cull the population of our planet by 2-3 billion" because "white people see their [population] numbers going down, and the numbers of indigenous people, black, red, and brown, going up." The Nation of Islam has cited Kennedy in its claim that the polio vaccine is linked to higher cancer rates in black people.

In light of recent allegations of antisemitism, RFK Jr. has disavowed his association with Farrakhan. Dov Hikind gave RFK Jr. an opportunity to disavow his antisemitism, as well. But look at RFK Jr.’s face here. Does he look at all contrite for helping to make the Jewish people a target for hate? And should Dov Hikind be giving him cover? 



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