Kanye West, Louis Farrakhan and Anti-Semitism

The “white extinction” conspiracy theory promoted by white supremacists holds that Jews promote integration, miscegenation and civil rights as part of a plot to replace the white race. Mr. West appears to believe the opposite. “Jewish people have owned the black voice,” he said on a recent podcast, later speaking of black Americans “being signed to a [Jewish-owned] record label, or having a Jewish manager, or being signed to a Jewish basketball team, or doing a movie on a Jewish platform like

Disney.

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That sort of talk sounds very much like the ravings of Nation of Islam leader

Louis Farrakhan,

the world’s foremost black anti-Semite. “You can’t do nothing in Hollywood unless you go by them”—the Jews—Mr. Farrakhan said in a 2010 speech. “You a hip-hop artist? You can’t do nothing, you gotta go by them. You want to be a great sports figure? They own that plantation. Children of Israel, they got you jumping through hoops.”

Similarly, Mr. West’s claim that Planned Parenthood was founded by Jews to control the black population is the inverse of the white-supremacist notion that Jews have promoted abortion to eradicate whites. Again, Mr. West was merely echoing the Nation of Islam, which has long implicated Planned Parenthood in a supposed black “depopulation agenda.”

Or take Mr. West’s “lost tribes” theory. “When I say Jew,” he told

Tucker Carlson

in an unaired segment of an Oct. 6 interview, “I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race black really are.”

This comes straight from black-supremacy doctrine. The Nation of Islam’s central tenet is that Jews swindled black people out of their birthright as God’s chosen. “The original Hebrews are black,” Mr. Farrakhan says in the same 2010 speech. It’s also the animating idea behind the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, two…