A federal choose tossed Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan’s $4.8 billion lawsuit towards the Anti-Defamation League accusing the civil rights group of falsely smearing him as an antisemite.
Farrakhan — who through the years has mentioned Hitler was a “nice” man, repeatedly claimed “Satanic” Jews management the federal government and Hollywood and in contrast Jews to termites — sued the ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Heart in Manhattan Federal Court docket in October, insisting the teams had harmed him and the Nation of Islam by pushing the “false narrative” that he’s an antisemite.
In dismissing the go well with Friday, Manhattan federal courtroom Choose Denise Cote wrote Farrakhan had failed to offer any proof demonstrably linking the teams’ actions and writings to accidents sustained by him or his spiritual group.
Concerning Farrakhan’s declare that Morgan State College barred him from talking on the faculty in 2023 attributable to stress from the ADL, Cote wrote he didn’t show there was “an damage pretty traceable to the ADL.”
Cote additionally famous in her choice the ADL’s writings on Farrakhan and his feedback in regards to the Jewish folks weren’t defamatory as a result of they “represent non-actionable opinions” and that Farrakhan “has not pled precise malice.”
The Anti-Defamation League cheered the choose’s choice on X and linked to a weblog put up itemizing a choice of Farrakhan’s “hateful and conspiratorial statements.”
“Reality is a protection and no, we is not going to cease calling out antisemitism wherever and each time we see it,” the ADL wrote.
