A Cabinet secretary in the Biden-Harris administration appeared in a photo at the Democratic National Convention with a man once referred to as a “top soldier” of Louis Farrakhan, the notorious antisemite who leads the Nation of Islam.
A since-deleted Facebook post last week shows Environmental Protection Agency head Michael Regan posed for a photo at the DNC alongside Terence Muhammad, an activist for a nonprofit group in Washington, D.C., called the Hip Hop Caucus. Muhammad, a frequent visitor to the Biden White House, often posts in support of Farrakhan on social media and, in a since-deleted 2013 social media post by Hip Hop Caucus President Lennox Yearwood, who also posed for the Regan photo, was dubbed a “top soldier” of Farrakhan, Fox News reported.
Farrakhan, 91, has likened Jews to termites and accused Jews of having “infected the whole world with poison and deceit.” In February, Farrakhan claimed at an event that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “had advance knowledge of and even a hand in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel” last year, the Anti-Defamation League found.
“Maaaaaaaaan, I had a great time seeing My Environmental Justice Squad along with My Political/Social Justice Squad mixed in with some HBCU LOVE, while here in Chicago,” Muhammad wrote in the since-deleted Facebook post that included a photo of him with Regan and Yearwood. “Yea, the EPA Administrator of the President’s Cabinet is an AGGIE.”
Yearwood, in a 2013 social media post, called Muhammad a “top soldier” of Farrakhan.
“Bless Minister @LouisFarrakhan allowing one of his top soldiers [Muhammad] 2 be w/ me for #MOW50,” the 2013 post read, according to Fox News. “Much LOVE to the NOI.”
Muhammad, in a 2014 post on social media, also posted an image of Farrakhan and Yearwood. The caption read, “I am that I am (The Good) because I was introduced to a man named the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and a Life giving teaching from the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. I can move/help my people like I do cause of Rev Lennox Yearwood, CEO/President of the Hip Hop Caucus. I work for these great men.”
Still, the Hip Hop Caucus denied being involved with the Nation of Islam.
“The Hip Hop Caucus and Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. have no relationship with the Nation of Islam and condemn the anti-semitic statements by Louis Farrakhan,” the Hip Hop Caucus spokesperson said. “As a multi-platform organization, Hip Hop Caucus centers Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Queer folks in our voting rights, racial justice, and climate and environmental justice work, we believe in building true allied relationships with well-intentioned communities, who want to collaborate in good faith, as we work to make the United States a more just place.”
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The EPA told the Washington Examiner it “appreciates the important ongoing work of the Hip Hop Caucus and Reverend Yearwood to advocate for environmental justice across the country.”
The “EPA condemns any statements of hate or prejudice against any group or individual based on religion, race, or background,” an EPA spokesperson said.