Jewish Group Wants Answers from Jeffries About Defending Antisemitic Uncle and Farrakhan

Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) leadership demanded answers on Friday from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for lying and defending his antisemitic uncle, Leonard Jeffries, and Nation of Islam (NOI) Leader Louis Farrakhan.

The RJC leadership — National Chairman, former Sen. Norm Coleman, and CEO Matt Brooks — stated that “Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries owes the Jewish community an explanation as to why he lied and attempted to cover up his defense of these revolting antisemites.”

The two cited a recent CNN story detailing the minority leader’s use of race politics during his time in college, his defense of his uncle and Farrakhan in his college newspaper, and that he even invited his uncle to speak on campus.

The CNN story revealed that Jeffries actually defended his uncle Leonard Jeffries, a black studies professor who lost his job after making antisemitic remarks, and Farrakhan in his college newspaper, declaring in February 1992 that the two were unfairly targeted by “white media” for challenging “the longstanding distortion of history.”

It was also reported that Jeffries, during his time at Binghamton University and as a member of the executive board for the Black Student Union, had invited his uncle to speak on campus after he made inflammatory comments in the early 1990s.

Coleman and Brooks also noted in their statement that Leonard Jeffries’s “disgusting remarks” included comparing Jews to “dogs” and “skunks”, saying that “rich Jews” financed the slave trade, and saying that Jewish Hollywood executives “planned and plotted and programmed” a conspiracy to denigrate Black Americans in films.

“Unfortunately, this is yet another disturbing data point of the Democratic Party embracing and promoting antisemites, from Leonard Jeffries and Louis Farrakhan to Ilhan Omar,” the two added.