And the first to be devastated by the virus were the Jews of the diaspora.” We've documented the first area codes that were devastated by coronavirus in America were Jewish area codes…This pestilence from heaven was called down by the sins of Israel. “If the Jews are the catalysts,” he explained, “one would think that the Jews were the first recipients, the first victims. “Every time they take out of place, every time they distort it, every time they misrepresent what the Honorable Brother Minister has said, they are guilty of this particular sin,” Muhammad continued.Įarly coronavirus outbreaks in Jewish communities in New York state, Muhammad said, is evidence that the Jews caused this “pestilence.” “It was the Jews-the Jewish sin of altering the word of God-that brought this pandemic down from heaven,” he said. In a highly publicized, antisemitic speech on July 4 of last year, NOI leader Louis Farrakhan previewed what would become the focal point of Muhammad’s theory about the coronavirus, describing the pandemic as “a pestilence from God.” In his sermon over the weekend, Muhammad expanded on this notion of the coronavirus pandemic as a “pestilence” and claimed that it was brought on by Jews, specifically.Īccusing Jews of causing the pandemic, Muhammad blamed Jews for the deaths of millions of people worldwide. While other NOI leaders have not hesitated to implicate Jews in their conspiracies about the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine, Wesley Muhammad delivered NOI’s most scathing, blatantly antisemitic explanation yet of why Jews and Israel are allegedly to blame for the global pandemic.

He also offered a second and, at times contradictory conspiracy theory, in which he claimed that Israel manipulated the virus to afflict others. In the sermon, Muhammad declared that the pandemic was sent to earth as punishment for the sins of Jews. As of January 14, his sermon, titled “Beyond Tuskegee: Why Black People Must Not Take the Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine,” has been viewed more than 40,000 times. Muhammad delivered a two-hour sermon, broadcast live from NOI’s national headquarters in Chicago, in which he explicitly and repeatedly blamed Jews and Israel for the coronavirus pandemic. Wesley Muhammad provided the latest example in the group’s long history of virulent antisemitism. On January 10, 2021, Nation of Islam (NOI) Student Minister Dr.

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