The
Anti-Defamation League alleges that the center regularly published
anti-Semitic and conspiracy-theory literature, and promulgated anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism through its speakers and official publications. According to the ADL website, speakers at the center have described
Jews as "enemies of all nations" and "cheaters whose greed knows no bounds." The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, an infamous anti-Semitic forgery created in the 19th century to vilify Jews, was held up as a factual account of a Jewish plan to "control the world." Speakers accused
Israel of trying to sterilize
Palestinian children by lacing the water "used by some Palestinian schools" with chemicals. Some Zayed speakers engaged in attempts to
deny the Holocaust. Speakers included Mr. Rami Tahbob, advisor to Al Quds' File on Arab Affairs, who claimed that Israel was trying to control the Palestinian population through the use of "chemical drugs," according to the Zayed Center website;
Michael Collins Piper, a Washington-based political writer and conspiracy theorist, who claimed the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion are "not a theory but a real fact," that Israel is developing an ethnic bomb that will kill only Arabs, and that the
Mossad was responsible for the assassination of
John F. Kennedy, the
Watergate scandal and the
Monica Lewinsky affair; and
Lyndon LaRouche, who spoke about global finance and his proposal for a transcontinental highway. The ADL reports that LaRouche also said that the
September 11, 2001 attacks could not have happened without the "connivance" of highly placed U.S. officials, that
Osama bin Laden "could never have" organized the attacks, and that the
foreign policy of the U.S. has been purchased by "Jewish gangsters" and "
Christian Zionists." LaRouche opposed its closing down. ==See also==