{"id":2700525,"date":"2026-11-06T17:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jocelyn-benson-taps-openly-antisemitic-nation-of-islam-leader-and-farrakhan-acolyte-to-serve-on-transition-team\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:23:51","slug":"jocelyn-benson-taps-openly-antisemitic-nation-of-islam-leader-and-farrakhan-acolyte-to-serve-on-transition-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jocelyn-benson-taps-openly-antisemitic-nation-of-islam-leader-and-farrakhan-acolyte-to-serve-on-transition-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Jocelyn Benson Taps Openly Antisemitic Nation of Islam Leader and Farrakhan Acolyte To Serve on Transition Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjocelyn-benson-taps-openly-antisemitic-nation-of-islam-leader-and-farrakhan-acolyte-to-serve-on-transition-team%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2700525&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Michigan governor-elect Jocelyn Benson appointed Benton Harbor Mayor Marcus muhammad, a Nation of Islam &#8220;student minister&#8221; and follower of Louis Farrakhan accused of antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, to her 15-member transition team. Jewish groups criticized Muhammad and some organizations removed him from advisory roles after reports of his remarks-calling Jews &#8220;the enemy,&#8221; promoting claims that Jews controlled the slave trade,and praising Farrakhan. Muhammad has defended Farrakhan, used Holocaust-era imagery, and endorsed the Nation&#8217;s anti-interracial &#8220;Muslim Program.&#8221; Benson has publicly praised and maintained a personal relationship with him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Jocelyn Benson Taps Openly Antisemitic Nation of Islam Leader and Farrakhan Acolyte To Serve on Transition Team\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/abdul-el-sayed-taps-egyptian-american-attorney-who-accused-zionists-of-controlling-american-politics-as-transition-director\" data-post-url id=\"print-2171951\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>Marcus Muhammad has been open for years about his distaste for Jews and pushed conspiracy theories, including one about Jews controlling the transatlantic slave trade<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tMarcus Muhammad, Jocelyn Benson (Muhammad Facebook)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Michigan governor-elect Jocelyn Benson (D.) tapped a Nation of Islam leader who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abdul-el-sayed-taps-egyptian-american-attorney-who-accused-zionists-of-controlling-american-politics-as-transition-director\/\" title=\"Abdul El-Sayed Taps Egyptian-American Attorney Who Accused &#039;Zionists&#039; of &#039;Controlling&#039; American Politics as Transition Director\">pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories<\/a>, referred to Jews as &#8220;the enemy,&#8221; and promotes Nation of Islam literature that forbids interracial relationships to serve on her gubernatorial transition council.<\/p>\n<p>Benson, who defeated Republican John James on Tuesday, picked Benton Harbor mayor Marcus Muhammad to serve on her 15-person transition team alongside Sen. Elissa Slotkin, Detroit mayor Mary Sheffield, and other Michigan Democratic leaders.<\/p>\n<p>It comes even after Jewish organizations have denounced Muhammad over his antisemitic rhetoric and leadership role in the Nation of Islam, widely considered an anti-Jewish and anti-white hate group. The Combat Antisemitism Movement <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/combat-antisemitism-movement-ousts-abdul-el-sayed-ally-dismissal-of-student-minister-follows-free-beacon-report-on-his-nation-of-islam-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\">removed<\/a> Muhammad from its mayoral advisory panel over the summer in response to a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/photos-show-grinning-abdul-el-sayed-buddying-up-with-nation-of-islam-ministers-who-railed-against-the-jews-defended-farrakhan\/\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> about his remarks and said it &#8220;will collaborate with no one who legitimizes&#8221; the Nation of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad is a &#8220;student minister&#8221; in the Nation of Islam. He is also a disciple of its firebrand leader Louis Farrakhan, who has compared Jews to &#8220;termites&#8221; and called Adolf Hitler &#8220;a great man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad has repeatedly defended Farrakhan. After Farrakhan referred to Jews as &#8220;the Satan&#8221; during an infamous July 2020 sermon, Muhammad posted a photograph of Farrakhan with the caption &#8220;Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a podcast interview with fellow Nation members this year, Muhammad referred repeatedly to &#8220;the enemy&#8221;\u2014a term Nation of Islam members use to refer to Jews or white people\u2014while discussing <em>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/em>, a controversial book that alleges Jews malignantly shape American foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have the muscle, they have the money, they have power, they have influence,&#8221; said Muhammad, who campaigned with Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D.) last week.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad invoked the Holocaust-era Nazi pogrom against Jews, writing about what he called &#8220;the ongoing Jewish and Gentile Kristallnacht against Black Muslim businesses.&#8221; Muhammad attended and promoted a Farrakhan speech in 2023 in which Farrakhan favorably stated that &#8220;Hitler went against usury and Hitler attacked pornography that the Jews had put on the Germans.&#8221;        <\/p>\n<p>Muhammad&#8217;s comments about Jews and embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories are often untied to criticism of Israel. He promoted another seminar of Farrakhan&#8217;s in which the minister discussed  <em>The Secret Relationship Between Black and Jews, Vol. 2<\/em>, an infamous Nation of Islam treatise which asserts that Jews were behind the transatlantic slave trade. Muhammad has promoted the Nation&#8217;s &#8220;Muslim Program,&#8221; which prohibits interracial relationships, as the &#8220;ultimate solution&#8221; to America&#8217;s &#8220;race problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benson, who currently serves as Michigan secretary of state, has maintained close ties to Muhammad despite the antisemitic vitriol. She shouted him out during her primary victory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KR0-ugAn9yo\" target=\"_blank\">speech<\/a> this month. Muhammad said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IWfLznsnt64\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> in August that he is longtime &#8220;friends&#8221; with Benson and that they have &#8220;developed a relationship outside of politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad said in the same interview that Farrakhan played a key role in his political career. He said Farrakhan pledged to be his &#8220;cornerman&#8221; in his run for Benton Harbor mayor and to &#8220;put the whole Nation behind [him]&#8221; in his political endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>Farrakhan has been a significant influence on Muhammad&#8217;s viewpoints toward Israel. In 2019, Muhammad <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marcus4polytics\/status\/1162033256516263937\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Farrakhan advised him to reject an invitation to visit Israel as part of a &#8220;peace mission&#8221; due to &#8220;the great dangers and hatred that exist.&#8221; He also wrote that he declined the visit because of Israel&#8217;s &#8220;vitriolic disposition toward Muslims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benson&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benson taps NOI leader with antisemitic views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2700526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MixCollage-06-Nov-2026-03-44-PM-1950.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,544],"tags":[48990,87580,39369],"class_list":["post-2700525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-free-beacon","tag-jocelyn-benson","tag-nation-of-islam","tag-transition-team"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/MixCollage-06-Nov-2026-03-44-PM-1950.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700529,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700525\/revisions\/2700529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}