Hate groupsWomen’s March organizer again attends Farrakhan speech

Published 7 March 2018

The ADL has called him “the leading anti-Semite in America,” and the SPLC has designated his Nation of Islam a hate group. True to form, Rev. Louis Farrakhan, in his annual Saviors’ Day address in Chicago on 25 February, claimed that “the powerful Jews are my enemy”; that “the Jews have control over agencies of those agencies of government”; and thatJews are “the mother and father of apartheid.” These anti-Semitic rants did not prevent Tamika D. Mallory, one of four presidents of the Women’s March, to participated in the 25 February rally. Mallory has on multiple occasions posted on her social media platforms about attending events with Farrakhan, and two other co-founders of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, have also praised and appeared at events with Farrakhan.

On Sunday, 25 February, Nation of Islam leader, Rev. Louis Farrakhan, gave his annual Saviors’ Day address in Chicago, an event attended by the co-president of the Women’s March, Tamika D. Mallory, The Forward reported.

At the rally, Farrakhan made a number of incendiary comments. He claimed that “the powerful Jews are my enemy,” and “the Jews have control over agencies of those agencies of government” like the FBI. He also charged that Jews are “the mother and father of apartheid,” and Jews are responsible for “degenerate behavior in Hollywood turning men into women and women into men.”

This isn’t Farrakhan’s first foray into anti-Semitism. The Anti-Defamation League has called him “the leading anti-Semite in America.” The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the Nation of Islam a hate group and stated, “Farrakhan is an anti-Semite who routinely accuses Jews of manipulating the U.S. government and controlling the levers of world power.”

Despite the abundance of anti-Semitism in Farrakhan’s speeches, Tamika D. Mallory, one of four presidents of the Women’s March, participated in the rally. Mallory has on multiple occasions posted on her social media platforms about attending events with Farrakhan, posing for a photo with him in 2015, and sharing the stage with him in 2016.

The Women’s March has not distanced themselves from Mallory’s support of Farrakhan and two other co-founders of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, have also praised and appeared at events with Farrakhan.

This is not the first anti-Semitic voice highlighted by the leaders of the Women’s March.

Sarsour, who is of Palestinian descent, is a harsh critic of Israel. Soon after the Women’s March, she was condemned by Jewish leaders for telling The Nation that supporters of Israel cannot be feminists.

“It just doesn’t make any sense for someone to say, ‘Is there room for people who support the state of Israel and do not criticize it in the movement?’ There