UH-OH: DNC Candidate Ellison Allegedly Ranted About ‘Jewish Slave Traders’

Democrtaic Congressman Keith Ellison, a Muslim who is vying for the position of head of the Democratic national Committee, has been accused of ant-Semitism because of remarks he has made in the past about jews.

Now there is further alleged evidence of his anti-Semitism. As Mother Jones reports, when Ellison attended the University of Minnesota in the late 1980’s, he reportedly snapped that “European white Jews” were “trying to oppress minorities all over the world,” referring to them as “Jewish slave traders.”

Mother Jones details how Ellison was a supporter of the racist Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and wrote op-eds, under the name Keith Hakim, in the student paper, the Minnesota Daily, defending the Nation of Islam leader. Ellison also introduced Kwame Ture, the black-power activist formerly known as Stokely Carmichael, when he spoke at the university; Ture called Zionism a form of white supremacy.

Eager to effect a rapprochement between the blacks and Jews on campus, the university organized a series of conversations between the two groups. But Ellison insisted Ture was not a racist. Michael Olenick, the opinions editor at the Daily, recalled Ellison asserting, “European white Jews are trying to oppress minorities all over the world.” He added, “Keith would go on all the time about ‘Jewish slave traders.'” Another Jewish student recalled Ellison ranting, “What are you afraid of? Do you think black nationalists are gonna get power and hurt Jews?”

“What are you afraid of? Do you think black nationalists are gonna get power and hurt Jews?”

Keith Ellison, reportedly

For a telling argument as to how Ellison has been anti-Semitic, see here.