...Carmichael moved (with his wife, Miriam Makeba) to the West African nation of Guinea, where he changed his name to Kwame Ture, in honor of Ghana’s former dictator Kwame Nkrumah, and Guinea’s then-President Ahmed Sekou Toure — both of whom were Marxists whose tyrannies had brought great suffering to their nations’ respective populations. While in Guinea, Carmichael (i.e., Kwame Ture) became dictator Toure’s aide and personal guest, living like a prince among the nation’s impoverished masses, and lavishing the Guinean ruler with praise.
Ture’s high regard for political tyrants extended as well to Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and to the Marxist rulers of North Vietnam and other Communist governments.
In 1971 Ture published the book Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan-Africanism. After the death of President Toure in 1984, Ture was arrested by the new military regime and was charged with trying to overthrow the government...
...Carmichael was frequently outspoken about his contempt for Jews and the State of Israel. In 1967, for instance, when Israel was attacked by the armies of several Arab nations, Carmichael publicly proclaimed that “the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.”