Rep. Hakeem Jeffries once defended antisemitic speech, Louis Farrakhan - report

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries once defended antisemitic speech, Louis Farrakhan - report
His uncle suggested there was a Jewish plot to harm Black people in movies, amongst other offensive comments.
By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

Jewish Democrats are backing Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Republicans are calling on him to explain himself, following a report that the Democratic House minority leader defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and an uncle of his who had made antisemitic comments in the 1990s.

The report belies longstanding claims made by Jeffries, a Brooklyn congressman and ally of the pro-Israel lobby, that as a college student at the time, he was only vaguely aware of the controversy surrounding his uncle’s remarks.

Then the chair of the Black Studies Department at the City University of New York, Jeffries’ uncle Leonard Jeffries came under widespread criticism in 1991 for comments in which he suggested there was a Jewish plot to denigrate Black people in movies, as well as the involvement of “rich Jews” in the slave trade.

more............. https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-739278
 
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