Linda Sarsour at 2015 Farrakhan's 'Justice Or Else' Rally: "I'm Tired of People Asking What The 'Else' Is"

    In 2015, Linda Sarsour, self-described civil-rights activist and "every Islamophobe’s worst nightmare" spoke at Louis Farrakhan's "Justice or Else" rally in Washington DC on the 20th anniversary of Farrakhan's Million Man March.
    Referencing the title of the rally, Sarsour said, "I'm tired of people asking us what the 'else' is. You would not have to ask that question if we already had justice." The video of Sarsour's speech is available on C-Span [1:42:18].

    Sarsour, a founder of the Women's March, was introduced by Tamika Mallory, also a founder of the Women's March and the emcee of the Justice or Else event, and was preceded by Rep. Danny Davis, a Farrakhan supporter who continues to serve in Congress, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's longtime pastor with whom Obama publicly split during Obama's 2008 run for president.
























   During her speech, Sarsour said:

We are one, sisters and brothers, and our liberation is bound up together. The same people who justify the massacre of Palestinian people and called it collateral damage are the same people who justify the murder of black young men and women. The same people who want to deport millions of undocumented immigrants are the same people who hate Muslims and want to take our right to worship freely in this country. That common enemy, sisters and brothers, is white supremacy. Let's call it what it is. We're not here to make people feel comfortable. I'm tired of people asking us what the 'else' is. You would not have to ask that question if we already had justice. We are angry, sisters and brothers. [emphasis added]

    Farrakhan himself has never been explicit about the 'else' either, but in an interview leading up to the rally, he gave some hints:

 A prescription for us is, those who kill us and seem to get away with it, we cannot allow it to continue. We must rise up and kill those who kill us outside of the law of justice and when they feel death like we feel death, when they feel pain at the burying of their dead like we feel it, then maybe we can sit down to a table and act like civilized people. [emphasis added]

   Sarsour herself made some remarks more recently regarding violence versus non-violence in the context the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

I am trained in kingian non-violence. I choose non-violence as a powerful means to change. BUT i don’t have to choose or justify violence to understand where it comes from when oppressed people see no way out. We have to be critical thinkers, advocate & present solutions.

    Sarsour continued:

Until we see both the Palestinian and Israeli people as equals than we will continue to see this cycle of violence. Don’t act surprised. Demand justice for Palestinians & let’s begin discussing peace. There’ll be no peace without justice.

New York Times: Jesus Was 'Most Likely a Palestinian Man'

    Based on a recent correction, the New York Times took a week to conclude that Jesus was Jewish.
    An April 19th article entitled "As a Black Child in Los Angeles, I Couldn’t Understand Why Jesus Had Blue Eyes" addressed the frequently-voiced observation that many artists' renderings of Jesus portray him as a "fair skinned, fair haired, blue eyed" man, a likely inaccurate Westernized version of Jesus, a middle eastern man.
    However, the article also asserted (because of an "editing error," according to the Times) that "Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was most likely a Palestinian man with dark skin." A screenshot of the article as it originally appeared (April 19th online, April 20th in print on page A2) is shown here:

    On April 27th, the article was updated to say, "But Jesus, a Jew born in Bethlehem, presumably had the complexion of a Middle Eastern man," as shown here:

    The full correction reads, "Because of an editing error, an article last Saturday referred incorrectly to Jesus’s background. While he lived in an area that later came to be known as Palestine, Jesus was a Jew who was born in Bethlehem."

Ilhan Omar on Israel-Palestine Conflict: "We Only Value The Lives Of Certain People"

   In May 2018, the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict flared up along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip as the US shifted its embassy to Jerusalem. Protests turned violent as up to 35,000 Palestinians, at the instigation of Hamas according to US and Israeli officials, clashed with Israeli security forces. As many as 60 Palestinians were killed as Israel fought back against rioters who were throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails and burning tires, in addition to at least one direct armed attack.
    In response to the Palestinian deaths, freelance writer David Klion, a former editor for Al Jazeera America, wrote on Twitter, "Israel has killed more Palestinians at the Gaza border in the past six weeks than East Germany killed crossing the Berlin Wall from 1961-1989." Ilhan Omar, since elected to Congress to Keith Ellison's old seat, tweeted out Klion's comparison, adding, "It’s not a big secret that we only value the lives of certain people 😢 #Palestinians #GazaMassacre #peace."

   Rep. Omar has found herself at the center of several anti-Semitism controversies in the few short months since her election, drawing sharp rebuke and condemnation of her words from even Democrats who otherwise support her. Omar was recently forced to issue what turned out to be an equivocal apology for her "All About the Benjamins" remarks regarding AIPAC, comments that had drawn unwelcome support from none other than the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan as The Script reported.

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".