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Antisemitism

Malcolm X has been widely accused of being antisemitic. His autobiography contains several "antisemitic charges and caricatures of Jews ". Alex Haley, the autobiography's co-author, had to rewrite some of the book to eliminate a number of negative statements about Jews in the manuscript. Malcolm X believed that the fabricated antisemitic text The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was authentic and introduced it to NOI members, while accusing the Jewish people of "perfecting the modern evil" of neo-colonialism. He helped change the Black community's image of The Holocaust, engaging in Holocaust trivialization and claiming that the Jews "brought it on themselves".

In 1961, Malcolm X spoke at a NOI rally alongside George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell saw overlap between Black nationalism and White supremacy. According to historian Stephen H. Norwood, Malcolm X's negative statements about Jews continued even close to his death, referring to Jews as "bloodsucker" in statements he made during the last months of his life.