[I did not know, until recently, that there were a horde of Black Conspiracy theories, believed by many African Americans, that the Jews invented AIDS to wipe Blacks out!

I find it interesting, (as often happens with disinformation), how many forms the same story takes.

For example, many people also believe the CIA invented AIDS and that AIDS is a Biological warfare experiment gone-wrong.

And then… there are Blacks in Africa who believe that AIDS was invented by the Afrikaners/Apartheid in order to wipe Blacks out.

So – who gets to take credit for “inventing” AIDS?

I would like to point out to people the Communist root of AIDS myths. The very first theory that AIDS was created by humans, was put forward by an East German scientist in 1985. As happens with lies invented by Communists, it is amazing how these take on a life of their own and sprout several branches.

I think AIDS is a natural occurrence and didn”t have to be invented by any particular group. I just think these people have their own political agendas and so they want to point the finger at the USA, CIA, Jews, Afrikaners or Apartheid. Maybe they should be pointing their fingers at God.

The following are some excertps a friend collected for me on the subject. Its well worth a read – especially the crazy rantings of Farrakhan. Jan]

Excerpt 1:
Some African-Americans in the U.S. believe that HIV was invented by Jews as a way to destroy the black race. Such theories have been propagated for years, first by Louis Farrakhan”s Nation of Islam, and by the New Black Panther Party, as well as by a number of professors in various small colleges. Conspiracy theorist Steve Cokely has made allegations that Jewish doctors have injected black babies with HIV.

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Excerpt 2:

Excerpt from “Farrakan Causes National Controversy”, by Lindsay Pindyk

In the past, Farrakhan has also called Judaism a “gutter religion” and accused Jewish doctors of injecting the AIDS virus into black babies, and in a January 24 speech at a Harlem armory he said, “We know that the Jews are the most organized, rich and powerful people, not only in America, but in the world. They”re plotting against us as we speak.”

Excerpt 3:
From a 1999 article by Daniel Pipes, Commentary Magazine,
“American Muslims vrs American Jews”

The Nation of Islam openly purveys the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious turn-of-the-20th-century anti-Semitic forgery, and Farrakhan regularly expounds its motifs, holding Jews accountable for both capitalism and Communism, for the two world wars, for Hollywood, and for the U.S. debt. He accuses Jews of dominating American politics (“all Presidents since 1932 are controlled by the Jews”) and the media (“any newspaper that refused to acquiesce to controlled news was brought to its knees by withdrawing advertising. Failing this, the Jews stop the supply of news print and ink”). To Farrakhan, Jews are “the most organized, rich and powerful people, not only in America but in the world.” In fact, he has asserted, “85 percent of the masses of the people of earth are victimized” by Jews.

If these are old tropes, Farrakhan has also had the imagination to fashion new ones. His trademark invention is that Jews were primarily responsible for the transatlantic slave trade–which, he claims, killed 100 million Africans. His organization”s “Historical Research Department” has even done some original pseudo-scholarship, publishing in 1991 a volume entitled The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews that purports to prove how Jews took the lead in capturing black Africans, transporting them to America, and continuing their enslavement in the South. These ideas have become so influential in American black circles, and in some universities, that serious scholars of the subject have been compelled to issue book-length refutations.

Turning to more recent times, Farrakhan also blames Jewish “bloodsuckers” for standing in the way of black advancement. The active and well-documented participation of Jews in the black civil-rights movement he dismisses as a self-interested plot: in helping to integrate blacks into American society, Jews, he charges, were really aiming to destroy the autonomous black economic institutions spawned by Jim Crow in order to take them over themselves. Worse, by encouraging blacks to work within the system, Jews prevented them from escaping the chains of white supremacy. As if all that were not enough, Jews have also injected the AIDS virus into black newborns and are “plotting against us even as we speak.”

To counter this alleged conspiracy, Farrakhan and his lieutenants and acolytes, who repeat and embellish these themes endlessly, have issued aggressive threats. In a much-publicized speech, Farrakhan referred to Adolf Hitler as a “very great man.” Years ago he warned American Jews, “If you harm Jesse Jackson, in the name of Allah, that will be the last one you harm.” And he has used almost the same words with regard to himself: “If you rise up to kill me. . . . all of you will be killed outright.”