National chairman of the New Black Panther Party Malik Shabazz told a crowd of supporters:
“We remember the Black holocaust.… Don’t tell us about any other holocaust other than the Black holocaust where over 150 million lives were lost. The worst holocaust of all time.”
Shabazz then turned to an African-American woman in the crowd and declared, “I don’t want to hear anything about another holocaust while I’m looking at a holocaust victim.”
Having exhausted the holocaust metaphor, Shabazz began to compare black Americans to Jewish peoples of the world. Speaking to the black Americans in the audience, he declared:
You are the true choice of God. You are the true chosen people of God. Don’t let anyone lie to you that we’ve come out here to preach any message of antisemitism.…If I came out to speak against the Jew, I’d be speaking out against all of you because you are the true Jew of the Bible — the true chosen ones.… Somebody has ripped you off. Somebody has perpetrated a fraud.
