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Has Keith Ellison Really Distanced Himself From the Nation of Islam?

April 26, 2018, By JERYL BIER

It doesn’t look that way.

Ever since Keith Ellison first ran for Congress in 2006, he has characterized his relationship with Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam as a sincere but misguided youthful dalliance. Though Ellison said he was proud of his 18-month association with the Nation of Islam in preparation for 1995's Million Man March, he wrote to concerned Jewish leaders in May 2006, saying, "I have long since distanced myself from and rejected the Nation of Islam due to its propagation of bigoted and anti-Semitic statements and actions of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and [Farrakhan aide] Khalid Muhammed."

Despite that professed distance from Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, Rep. Ellison attended a 2013 event given by Iran's president Rouhani that included Farrakhan, and Farrakhan himself has spoken of a 2015 visit by Reps. Ellison and Andre Carson to Farrakhan's Washington, D.C., hotel suite. Both of these connections were first made public in my February 2018 Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Now a series of photographs reveals a recent visit by Ellison to the Chicago headquarters of the Coalition for the Remembrance of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad (CROE), an organization formed in 1987 to honor and promote the teaching of Elijah Muhammad, former leader of the Nation of Islam and mentor to Louis Farrakhan. Although the exact date of the photographs is not clear, other factors suggest sometime between 2014 and 2016. The photographs are screenshots from a YouTube video posted by Saviours Helper, an "authorized distributor of the Final Call Newspaper [a Nation of Islam publication.]"








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Mr. Ellison said, "I disavow anti-Semitism and bigotry in all of its forms" and his spokesperson added that "standing in a room" with someone did not indicate endorsement.

His protestations notwithstanding, it is clear that Ellison's connections with the Nation of Islam have gone far beyond simply "standing in a room," as the photos of the lengthy visit at CROE suggest. Ellison sat directly across from Farrakhan at the meeting hosted by Rouhani as photographs show. Despite multiple opportunities (including by the Minneapolis Star Tribune and CNN's Wolf Blitzer) to deny the 2015 visit with Farrakhan, Ellison initially chose to ignore the questions and call the whole issue a "smear." Later, in March, however, Ellison wrote on Medium that, after the 2013 event with Rouhani, "[c]ontrary to recent reports, I have not been in any meeting with him since then, and he and I have no communication of any kind."

In March, however, Rep. Carson confirmed the 2015 hotel meeting with Farrakhan in an interview with Indy Star columnist Tim Swarens,

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