Chicago's United Center Deletes Tweet, Webpage For Farrakhan's Saviours' Day

   Chicago's United Center hosted the final day of the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day commemoration featuring a keynote address on Sunday by the group's leader Louis Farrakhan. The Script reported Farrakhan's remarks disparaging "The Holocaust" as a term reserved for Hilter's genocide of Jews, as well as a speech by a man called a "Holocaust denier" by both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

   While the United Center promoted Farrakhan's appearance on its website and on Twitter in the run-up to the event, both the website and the United Center's Twitter feed have been scrubbed of references to Saviours' Day 2019. (A review of the website and Twitter indicates the United Center does not typically delete promotions for past events.)

    Below is an archived version of the United Center website's promo for Saviours' Day 2019 as it appeared as of Sunday, February 17:

   The same website address now returns a message, "Sorry, the page you requested was not found on our server.":

   The United Center also tweeted a promotion of Farrakhan's event on February 2, 2019, but the tweet, seen below, has since been deleted (archived here):

   The United Center also hosted Saviours' Day in 2010 according to tweets on the United Center's Twitter account, and in 2012 according to the Nation of Islam's The Final Call publication.
   Although the United Center logo feature the globe logo of United Airlines, that company's connection to the United Center is limited to a name licensing agreement.
   The United Center did not respond to inquiries from The Script before the event regarding the Center's hosting of and promotion of the event. Thus far, United Center Senior Marketing Manager Derrick Christian has not responded to inquiries about the deletion of the promotional page and tweet above and whether or not the move has implications for future Nation of Islam events at the United Center venue.
   The Nation of Islam did not respond to a request for comment either.

Farrakhan On Exclusive Use Of "The Holocaust" For Jews During WW2: "To Them, The Suffering Of Six Million Jews Is Worth Seven Billion Human Beings"

   Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan continued his public haranguing of the "Satanic Jew," his term for his Jewish critics, in his 2019 Saviours' Day event keynote address in Chicago at the United Center on Sunday. At one point, Farrakhan addressed the issue of the Holocaust and how he believes Jewish people have unjustly appropriated the word "holocaust" to apply exclusively to Hitler's attempt to wipe out Jews worldwide during World War II (video, 2:39)*:

"Now some of the Jewish people who are under the Talmud - Lord have mercy - they think so much of themselves -- that you black people -- you look at 400 years, you look at the transatlantic slave trade you look at them hanging us up, burning us at the stake, raping us, robbing us, and you call it "the Holocaust," and a Jew will say to you, Uh uh, you can't use that term. How many of you have heard Jewish people tell you you can't use "holocaust" when you talk about black suffering.  Do you know why? Because to them, the suffering of six million Jews is worth seven billion human beings on our planet. So when you say "holocaust" that's to them, blasphemy. That's how cheap they think of Palestinian life, the life of the Gentiles - only their life is sacred." [emphasis added]

Farrakhan addressing crowd at United Center (screenshot from NOI video)

   Earlier on Sunday, Michael Hoffman, a man that both the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center have called a "Holocaust denier," addressed the gathering at the United Center. A photo was posted on Twitter by someone in the crowd:

   Hoffman had visited with Farrakhan at Farrakhan's house on the eve of the Nation of Islam conference and posted a photo on Twitter of himself with Farrakhan:

   Hoffman has written regarding his own books, "it is necessary to have the courage to point out the many parallels between Nazi ideology and the Israeli Zionist ideology which is engaged in the on-going dispossession and murder of Palestinians." He also has a photo of himself from the year 2000 holding a banner equating the Star of David to the Nazi swastika:

   Two years ago at Saviours' Day 2017, Farrakhan's hosted 9/11 Truthers who gave a presentation alleging Jewish responsibility for the terror attacks as a false flag excuse to start a "War on Islam." The Truthers used this graphic in their presentation:

   The Script reported on this 2017 presentation last week.



*Correction. Originally said "2:42".