As world crises descend deeper into an abyss of uncertainty, darkness, and confusion, critical truths spoken about the world’s condition by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, continue to unfold and manifest.
In Minister Farrakhan’s pivotal Saviours’ Day message titled, “What Does Allah, The Great Mahdi And The Great Messiah Have To Say About The War in the Middle East?” delivered in Detroit, Michigan, on Feb. 25, 2024, he provided Divine Guidance and caution concerning man’s inhumanity to man and Israel’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people.
He warned both Israel and America concerning their actions in the war. However, he also cautioned why the American people—particularly Black and Indigenous people—should be concerned with what is occurring in the Middle East.
“So, when you say, ‘I ain’t got nothing to do with what’s going on in the Middle East.’… You better listen. You better wake up, because what you see over there is being planned over here,” said Minister Farrakhan. “So, I want you just to listen to your brother and do your research,” he added.
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Farrakhan have warned that the turmoil devastating nations abroad will inevitably reach American shores. The Final Call has steadily reported on the atrocities unfolding in occupied Palestine since war erupted on October 7, 2023.
Citing figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as reported by Al Jazeera’s live tracker, press-time numbers indicate that more than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed—including over 18,400 children—with tens of thousands more wounded.
Considering the thousands who remain missing, presumed dead and buried beneath the ruins, some sources estimate the true death toll to be far higher. Among the fatalities are 221 people, including 101 children, who succumbed to starvation.
Meanwhile, survivors endure daily bombardment from U.S.-made weaponry, coupled with Israeli-enforced starvation through the deliberate obstruction of food, medical aid, and fuel. International humanitarian organizations warn that Gaza has entered the “worst-case scenario” for famine.
Heart-wrenching images of emaciated children and reports of Palestinians shot and killed while desperately seeking food at distribution sites reveal the depth of the crisis, compounded by the constant burden of forced displacement from their lands.
“These cruel dystopian scenes are the new norm in Gaza where people have been devalued and are dehumanized,” said Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General, in a Aug. 8 post on the social media platform X. He described what Israel is doing as “orchestrated killing” with a “license to kill starving people in total impunity.”
In a statement earlier this month, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported people killed while seeking aid has surpassed 1,400.
The OHCHR stressed that deliberately targeting civilians not taking part in hostilities, using starvation as a method of warfare and willfully obstructing humanitarian relief constitute war crimes. “If part of a systematic or widespread attack on the civilian population, these may also constitute crimes against humanity,” OHCHR added.
Furthermore, human rights organizations, legal experts and genocide scholars warn that the situation meets the legal criterion for genocide.
In Aug. 10 remarks from Mosque Maryam, the Nation of Islam’s headquarters, Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad, National Assistant to Minister Farrakhan, noted that despite over 160 nations imploring Israel to allow aid into Gaza, the Israeli intent to cleanse Gaza of Palestinians ethnically persists. There is an abundance of aid being obstructed at the borders by Israel.
“It’s genocide that’s taking place over there,” said Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad.
“Women, children, starving because what the Minister (Louis Farrakhan) said: Their intention was to cleanse Gaza of every Palestinian that lived there, cleanse the West Bank and East Jerusalem, so that Israel would not be bothered with Palestinians anymore,”
Said Student Minister Ishmael, quoting Minister Farrakhan. “They want to cleanse us too,” he added, referring to Black and Indigenous people in America.
He explained that this is why The Final Call newspaper often places Palestine on its front cover—so that Black people, and the world, may witness what is being done. “And yes, Minister Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam stand with our Palestinian brothers and sisters for justice,” said Student Minister Ishmael Muhammad.
Although the atrocities in Palestine are taking place more than 6,000 miles away, observers say that as Gaza is besieged, speaking out for Palestinians is essential.
“They’re human beings, just like everybody else,” said Abayomi Azikiwe, political commentator and editor of Pan-African News Wire. He said it’s important that Black people in the United States be concerned as a people also marginalized.
“Historically, the most progressive elements of the community here have been concerned,” said Mr. Azikiwe, noting a longstanding history of such solidarity. For example, he said, as early as the 1950s, the Nation of Islam expressed solidarity with Egypt during the 1956 aggression by Britain, France, and Israel to retake control of the Suez Canal after it was nationalized.
Later, Malcolm X issued a statement supporting Palestinians after visiting Gaza in 1964. Then in 1967, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee stood for the plight of Palestinians.
These early stands are a few examples of a tradition of Black internationalism that linked the Palestinian struggle with the Black freedom struggle in the U.S., as a shared struggle against colonialism, racism and imperialism.
“The most progressive and forward-looking forces that have emerged in our community have all seen the necessity of an alliance with the Palestinians,” said Mr. Azikiwe.
In addition, Black, Indigenous, and poor communities are adversely impacted by American adventurism overseas, resulting in a bloated military budget of nearly one trillion dollars, which is projected to exceed that sum next year.
Consequently, U.S. taxpayers provide $3.8 billion annually to Israel. But since October 2023, that baseline figure swelled to $17.9 billion in 2024, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project that tracks U.S. military spending.
Critics argue such funds could instead be directed toward housing, healthcare, and education, rather than financing the bombing of children in Gaza.
Considering such amounts, America isn’t just witnessing the genocide; it’s an active participant in genocide, argued Dr. Melina Abdullah, former independent vice-presidential candidate and co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Grassroots.
“The U.S. government is funding Israel to commit these war crimes … engage in genocide,” she contends. “When we talk about the kinds of things that are needed in community,” reasoned Dr. Abdullah, “you could defund the genocide and fund communities,” she said.
“We could have what we need just by taking that money back from the unjust evil war … colonization … occupation and pour it into the communities that our tax dollars are supposed to go to,” she said.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and his teacher, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, cautioned that America is not immune to either experiencing or perpetrating such events being witnessed abroad.
Israeli soldiers and military equipment are still on the streets of Gaza and National Guard troops are now seen in Washington, D.C. Hunger is rampant in Gaza, and in the U.S., budget cuts to social service safety nets that help the poor are on the chopping block.
Dissatisfaction, dissolution, and anger with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government have made Israeli citizens take to the streets, while in U.S. cities, demonstrations have also taken place in opposition to policy proposals of the current presidential administration.
As Israel continues expelling or sometimes detaining Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, in the U.S., officials with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) are detaining undocumented but also documented Black, Latino and Indigenous immigrants in the U.S. for deportation. Though the situations and circumstances are not exactly the same, there are parallels and similarities.
History lays bare America’s own crimes against humanity against the Black and Indigenous people, that has never been remedied with justice. Israel is to the Palestinians as America is to the Black and Indigenous people. As settler-colonial powers, both nations were built on the blood, marginalization and forced displacement of people. That still stands true in 2025.
“America was founded and built with blood and established by iniquity. She killed the aboriginal inhabitants (Indians) to establish herself as an independent people at the great loss of lives of the original owners,” wrote the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in Chapter 28 of His critical book, “The Fall of America.”
“Her great progress has been made by the work of iniquity. She has robbed many people; and the blood of her slaves, the so-called Negroes, has stained the earth here and elsewhere, stained by her hands,” he continued.
In Final Call interviews, analysts and observers stated that, as people long subjected to oppression and colonization, Black and Indigenous people should be invested in the Palestinian issue and vice versa.
To see people brutally slaughtered in a genocidal way and say nothing is to be “complicit with genocide,” even as Black Americans, said Mr. Azikiwe. “Because if we’re not speaking out against it and say this has nothing to do with us—which is false—then we’re complicit,” he argued.
Dr. Abdullah added that “Black people are the moral compass of the world,” who were always willing to stand for justice. However, nobody can claim to be a servant of God or a good person and sit idly by and watch children be starved to death.
“We understand what it is to be targeted and put in open-air prisons, and have our families ripped apart, to not have a claim to our own land,” said Dr. Abdullah. “There is a connection there,” she added.
Quoting scripture, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in the final chapter of “The Fall of America,” entitled “The Worst is Yet to Come,” warned that America would experience the troubles seen abroad. “As the Holy Qur’an prophesies to us, ‘you will hear it coming from distant places with vehement raging and roaring!’” He wrote.
“America is beset all-around now with troubles and destructions which have happened. America thought that she was immune to the troubles and destructions which are going on in other nations.
Now the same trouble and destruction that you read of as happening in other countries and to other nations—these same troubles and destruction, with their evil and gruesome sound, are knocking on the door of America!” said the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad.