Louis Farrakhan:
[...]I said "Now here come the Jews calling me Hitler." Maybe I should of said "Here comes Nathan Perlmutter, or the ADL, or Rabbi Schindler," and if I could do it over I would do it better.
Jeffrey Goldberg: Are you saying that your emotional reaction caused you to give an overly harsh reaction?
Louis Farrakhan: Yes. This is why dialogue is important because I have no right to say the Jews, when the Jews as a body did not do this, but those who claimed to represent Jewish interest did this and the body remained silent. Now you know, whenever somebody does something that offends Jewish people they go, if I do it as a black person, the Jewish people go to other blacks, "Well what do think about what Farrakhan said?" And encourage them to speak out against that black who has offended quote, unquote the Jews. But we did not notice any Jew, saying to other Jews, "Well wait a minute, this is what Farrakhan really said. Why did we take such a harsh position and label him as a Hitler when there nothing in this man’s history that justifies such a thing, that has never been done, not from that date to this?" Now as I said in my dialogue, if you show me where I am in error I will admit that. And I admit here and now that I should have said the name of the person that said this and then focused on that person or that organization which I did not do.