Minister Louis Farrakhan has dropped a whopping $4.8 billion lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for the alleged “abuse,” “misuse,” and “false use” of the term anti-semitism to smear his name and vilify the Nation of Islam.
The suit holds the ADL responsible for defamation and First Amendment rights interference and Farrakhan, 90, wants the organization to be “permanently barred” from using the terms “anti-Semite,” “anti-Semitic,” and “antisemitism,” to hinder his exercise of free speech.
The Anti-Defamation League is a global, Jewish organization and anti-hate advocacy group specializing in civil rights law and combating antisemitism, bias, and extremism, according to its website.
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The Nation of Islam (NOI), which Farrakhan has worked on behalf of for decades, is an Islamic and Black nationalist movement founded in Detroit, Michigan, by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in 1930.
While the ADL is a non-governmental group, Farrakhan claims that it is “unAmerican” and that its activities are “so intermingled and intertwined with those of the F.B.I., and various local and state police departments, that it literally functions as a governmental actor that can be held liable for violating a person’s constitutionally protected rights.”
NOI members believe the ADL paid an agent to infiltrate the ranks of the Nation of Islam and then planted false evidence that resulted in the arrest of dozens of its members.
Farrakhan also lists several instances in the lawsuit in which the ADL denounced remarks he’s made at public appearances to back up his defamation claims, but the very first instance happened in 1984 when Farrakhan was defending a set of remarks made by Jesse Jackson during Jackson’s presidential campaign in which he called for equitable foreign policy to support Israeli-Palestinian relations with a pro-Palestine message.
That Jackson presidential campaign ran into real…
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