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Famous black anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan - more recently Kanye West and Kyrie Irving - have accused Jews of oppressing and exploiting blacks, if not usurping their identity as the “true” Jews.
One of the Nation of Islam’s most hard-hitting and longest-lasting charges against the Jewish people is that they bear substantial responsibility for the atrocities of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Jews, Farrakhan and his followers say, ran the machinery of the Middle Passage overseas and were the largest holders of black African slaves in the Americas.
This is simply racist propaganda, and is not consistent with history.*
Yet, one specific and deeply disturbing aspect of the slave trade for which Jews are blamed is the castration of black slave boys. Farrakhan mentioned this blood libel in a November 10, 2022, sermon commenting on the Kanye West and Kyrie Irving Jew-hatred scandals.†
In actuality, it was blacks kidnapped in the Arab slave trade who were castrated, in accordance with Arab prejudices against black male sexuality and to supply the demand for eunuchs to guard Muslims rulers’ myriad concubines. Unlike white slave boys, whose castration was only “partial,” black slave boys were castrated “level with the abdomen,” so as to destroy any sexual ability completely. European slave traders, by contrast - despite their similar sexual prejudices against black men - never castrated their black male slaves, because they needed strong, vital men for plantation labor.
This evil practice resulted in appalling death rates for black boys, and, most egregiously, acted as a form of genocide. Unlike in America, there is no large black-identifying population in the Arab world which is descended from enslaved Africans. These centuries of slave castration have resulted in the “abortion” of untold millions of black people, who would be alive today if their male ancestors had not been so mutilated.
This video is an audio reading from scholar Murray Gordon’s 1987 book “Slavery in the Arab World,” pages 94 (third paragraph) to 97.‡
* See Harold Brackman, Ph.D., “Ministry of Lies: The Truth Behind the Nation of Islam’s ‘The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews’” (New York, NY: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994). archive.org/details/ministryofliestr0000brac. See also Eli Faber, “Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight” (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1998). archive.org/details/jewsslavesslavet00fabe.
† Watch the relevant part of the sermon (go to 2:34): kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHjad4GvqsmskKs.
‡ Murray Gordon, “Slavery in the Arab World” (New York, NY: New Amsterdam Books, 1992). archive.org/details/slaveryinarabwor0000gord.