Keith Ellison, in his latest attempt to dismiss concerns about his past praise for Louis Farrakhan as a “smear,” writes that it wasn’t until after 1995 that the Nation of Islam Leader’s “disparaging views on Jewish people … became clearer” to him.

This is not credible. By 1995, when a 32 year-old Ellison worked with the Nation of Islam to help organize the Million Man March in Minnesota, Farrakhan was already one of the most famous anti-Semites in America, with a well-documented history of statements disparaging Jews that had been the subject of national controversy for over a decade.