The main ticketing platform in sports activities and leisure doesn’t appear to have an issue with Louis Farrakahn’s lengthy historical past of anti-Semitism, in response to a letter despatched by leisure business heavyweights to Ticketmaster this week.

Creative Community for Peace, a number one leisure business commerce group that promotes tolerance via the humanities, despatched a letter to Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino, expressing nice concern about Ticketmaster promoting tickets to Louis Farrakhan’s upcoming Saviours’ Day occasion on February 26h at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.

The letter, which was signed by leisure executives Haim Saban, Sherry Lansing, singer/songwriter Diane Warren, and greater than 120 different leisure business leaders, highlights a listing of antisemitic and homophobic statements from Louis Farrakhan at previous Saviours’ Day occasions. It urges the corporate to rethink promoting tickets to the occasion and to undertake the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, a tenet to assist establish and fight anti-Jewish hate, resembling that usually espoused by Farrakhan.

“Mr. Farrakhan has labeled Judaism a “gutter religion;” acknowledged that Jewish spiritual writings are chargeable for “pedophilia, homosexuality, and sex trafficking” in America; recurrently praises Hitler, calling him “a very great man;” the letter acknowledged. “[Farrakhan] refers to Jews as insects; and falsely and outrageously claims that Jews orchestrated and dominated the African slave trade.”

Mr. Farrakhan has repeatedly invoked “Satan” when referring to the Jewish individuals. In his 2017 speech at Saviors’ Day, he stated “Those who call themselves ‘Jews,’ who are not really Jews, but are in fact, Satan. You should learn to call them by their real name: ‘Satan.’ You are coming face-to-face with Satan, the Arch Deceiver, the enemy of God and the enemy of the Righteous.” And in 2020, he promoted violence by stating, “”Those of you who say that you’re Jews, I cannot even provide the honor of calling your self Jews. You usually are not a Jew. You are so-called. You are Satan. It is my job now to tug the quilt off of Satan. So when each Muslim sees Satan, decide up a stone.”

The letter consists of further incendiary quotes from Mr. Farrakhan through the years, highlighting his sample of sharing antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories together with his viewers. It additionally notes the truth that there are extra hate crimes per capita in opposition to Jews than some other minority and that “, providing support of any kind to this sort of hatred is not just unacceptable, but dangerous.”

CCFP Director Ari Ingel added, “Louis Farrakhan is one of the leading purveyors of antisemitism in America, as noted by the ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center. His views are incredibly dangerous and we’re disappointed to see Ticketmaster enable his promulgation of hatred. We hope Mr. Rapino reconsiders, especially at a time when antisemitism continues to become more and more normalized.”

At the time of this writing, Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino has but to answer CCFP’s request