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ABOUT ISLAMIC-FASCIST FARRAKHAN LIES ON THE SLAVE TRADE

[https://www.tabletmag.com/amp/sections/arts-letters/articles/slave-trade-black-muslim] Slave Trade a Nation of Islam Lie... B. Ungar-Sargon, Tablet Mag. 2013.
Faber found during his more recent scholarly research with British Naval Office records that in 18th-century Britain, Jews actually were not heavily invested in the trading part of the slave trade. “Overwhelmingly,” Faber said, “Jewish merchants and shippers were not involved at all; they represent a minuscule portion of owners of ships.” While Jews did own slaves, he found, “their ownership was directly proportionate to their numbers.” Both were about 18 percent. The two companies with slaving ventures had small numbers of Jews among their owners: The Royal Africa Company had none until 1712, and the South Sea Company always had a handful of Jews, ..Faber says. The numbers just aren’t there to support the view,” said Faber. “Jews were involved, but to an insignificant degree. That doesn’t absolve them of that guilt, but everyone made money off African slaves: Arabs, Europeans, Africans,” he said. “And there was no attempt to deny it...” And indeed, most black intellectuals were never convinced by The Secret Relationship. “You can’t even say that Christians across the board were slave-traders!” said Hilary Shelton, Washington bureau director and senior vice president for Advocacy for the NAACP. “There is not a religion that doesn’t have someone doing some dastardly thing. Did you know that in Ku Klux Klan’s handbook, it states specifically that one must be a devout Catholic? And this is problematic for the relationship between the two communities, which has been so important to us...

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Lauren Deutsch, Jews Did Not Finance the Slave Trade; Here Is the Proof, Algemeiner, December 13, 2023.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/12/13/jews-did-not-finance-the-slave-trade-here-is-the-proof/

…to the extent that Jewish people were involved in the transatlantic slave trade, it was not only in finance, and not even disproportionately in finance. The fact that only financing is mentioned plays into the stereotype that Jews are always behind the scenes, controlling the money. While the fact that any Jews were involved in the slave trade makes my blood run cold, it can hardly be said to constitute “the Jewish nation … financing [sic] the slave ships.”

Why do people think “the Jews” [sic] financed the slave trade? Some of the chief proponents of this idea have been Louis Farrakhan and Leonard Jefferies [sic].

The Nation of Islam, under the leadership of Farrakhan, wrote a pseudo-scholarly book entitled, The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, which is devoted to this topic. This book picks sources to show any Jews who were involved in the slave trade, and then carefully doesn’t mention the scale at which these people were involved — which was a tiny fraction of the whole.

The book leaves out mention of other groups involved in kidnapping, torturing, selling, and owning Black human beings, including indigenous groups in America, Black African leaders, and other ethnic and racial groups. I do not write this to excuse or minimize any involvement by anyone of any race in this horrific crime. My point is that this book takes one of the worst crimes in human history, and pins it on “the Jews” by virtue of the actions of a tiny minority of people involved.

This kind of collective scapegoating is never acceptable or moral. It is hardly surprising however, since Farrakhan is an outspoken antisemite. His list of public antisemitic remarks is too long to list here, but suffice it to say that “termites” is one of the nicer names he has for Jews.

Leonard Jefferies [sic] was a professor at the City College of New York, who in 1993 gave a now infamous lecture in which he asserted, among other things, “Everyone knows rich Jews helped finance the slave trade.” When Jefferies [sic] gave a version of this lecture at Harvard, and was questioned by a student regarding historical records that do not show Jewish ownership or control in the companies who engaged in enslaving Black people for profit, he replied that the investments were “secret.”

Because these allegations align with pre-existing antisemitic tropes about Jews (that Jews are secretly controlling everything), they reinforce what many people already believe. This makes them memorable, and credible to people who are exposed to them. It also means that people are inclined to accept them, regardless of the lack of evidence….

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[https://books.google.com/books?id=5l81hwFPvzYC&printsec=frontcover] ‘Slavery in the Arab World,’ Murray Gordon, 1989...comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today...

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[https://books.google.com/books?id=RR2AAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA294] Routledge Handbook of African Security, James J. Hentz, 2013, p.294 Unfortunately these racist attitudes were to persist, given slavery’s twin legacy, that of Arabism and Islamism

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[https://books.google.com/books?id=J-SrdFtSuDUC&pg=PA1418] Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Edward H. Lawson, ‎Mary Lou Bertucci, ‎David P. Forsythe ,1996,p. 1418. ingrained psychology of racism or Arabism which deems the Dinka inferior.
[6] ‘Our Four Genetic Moms,’ By Zachary Solomon, JTA, Aug. 29, 2013.
On Friday nights Jews traditionally bless their daughters to emulate Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah. But the women these girls actually take after are 4 other women entirely. In a genetic study