NEW YORK, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Minister Louis Farrakhan,
the anti-Semitic and racist leader of the Nation of Islam, concluded his
Saviours' Day address by recommending to his audience several notoriously
anti-Semitic books, including "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and
Jews."
    "Farrakhan may have held his anti-Semitic views in check while on the
dais, but if this is what he wants people to read, then the leopard hasn't
changed his spots," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director.
"Minister Farrakhan's reading list includes books that purport to expose
'the truth' about Jews and their control of the federal banking system or
their role in the African slave trade.
    "It's a shame that Farrakhan had an opportunity to change his legacy,
and he didn't," added Mr. Foxman.
    Toward the conclusion of his Saviours' Day address at Ford Field in
Detroit, which was described as his last major speech, Minister Farrakhan
told his audience, "I want you to become readers" and "Put these names
down." Among the authors and books he recommended:
    -- "The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews," which argues that
       the history of slavery in the New World was dominated by Jewish ship
       owners and merchants.  The book presents a multi-layered attack against
       the Jewish people, assaulting the integrity of the Jewish religion, the
       meaning of Jewish history, and the foundations of Jewish scholarship
       upon which the book's own fraudulent charges are based.

    -- "The Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustice Mullins, an anti-Jewish
       conspiracy theory propagandist, one of the key conspiracy books
       claiming that the banking system in the U.S. is controlled by a few
       elite families (most of them Jewish). It is a key text used by
       anti-Semites on the far right.

    -- "By Way of Deception" by Victor Ostrovsky, a discredited book that
       makes unsubstantiated claims about Israel's Mossad.

    -- "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" by President Jimmy Carter, a biased,
       simplistic and distorted view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that
       portrays Israeli policies in dealing with Palestinians in the
       territories as inherently racist.
    Copies of "The Synagogue of Satan," written by nation of Islam member
Ashahed Muhammad, which claims that the world is being manipulated and
corrupted by Satanic powers led by Jewish elites, were available for
purchase at the event.
    The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading
organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that
counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry.

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