“The streaming channel Fox Soul cancelled its plans to broadcast a speech by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan” in honor of American Independence Day on July 4 “after an online uproar.” But it was only because of the uproar.
Farrakhan has called Jews “termites” and has advocated for their genocide. That fact was published on Fox News HERE, yet the same network was poised to showcase this violent-minded antisemite. Farrakhan said during his Saviors’ Day address in Chicago last year, when he also called himself the “Messiah” and “Jesus”:
God does not love this world. God never sent Jesus to die for this world. Jesus died because he was 2,000 years too soon to bring about the end of the civilization of the Jews.
While cancel culture continues to hunt down pro-democracy truth-tellers, the hate-driven Farrakhan is welcomed to large platforms, which now includes — astonishingly — Fox. The cancellation is good, but why were they planning to feature him in the first place?
“Fox Soul channel cancels plans to broadcast Farrakhan speech on July 4th,” by Aiden Pink, Forward, June 29, 2020:
The streaming channel Fox Soul cancelled its plans to broadcast a speech by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on July 4 after an online uproar.
Farrakhan for decades has been accused of anti-Semitism and homophobia, calling Jews “satanic” ….
“Simon Wiesenthal Center: Cancel Louis Farrakhan’s July 4 speech on Fox,” Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2020:
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on Fox Television to cancel its anticipated speech by US-based Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, it said in a statement.
The speech is expected to take place on July 4, in honor of American Independence Day.
The center called on Fox to cancel Farrakhan’s speech due to his long record of making inflammatory and antisemitic statements, including suggestions that Jews controlled the trans-Atlantic slave trade and calling Judaism a “gutter religion.”
Farrakhan has also engaged in promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, such as Jewish and Israeli involvement in the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US.
“Since the 1980s, Louis Farrakhan has denigrated the Jewish people, Judaism and the Jewish state, members of the LGBT community, the United States of America, and entertainment leaders from Hollywood. Throughout those decades, he has embraced America’s enemies from Libya’s Ghaddafi to Iran’s Ayatollahs,” said the center’s founder and dean Rabbi Marvin Hier, and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean and global director of social action for the leading Jewish human rights NGO.
The two rabbis added that “The African-American community is blessed with leaders in every field of endeavor from the arts, to business, to politics, to faith to media – anyone of whom can deliver an empowering and inclusive message of hope on July 4th. Farrakhan is a racist antisemite – a demagogue and divider – at a time when all Americans need to hear messages of unity and hope, the values for which Martin Luther King Jr. lived and died for….