A college editorial written by Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries during college appears to contradict previous claims that he was unaware of his uncle’s antisemitic history, according to CNN.

Leonard Jeffries, a former black studies professor at the City University of New York, claimed during a lecture in 1990 that “rich Jews who financed the development of Europe also financed the slave trade” and that Jews controlled Hollywood to oppress black people, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The comments sparked national criticism, but in 1992, Jeffries, who was a college student at Birmingham University, wrote a student editorial appearing to defend his uncle and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who also has a long history of antisemitism, blaming the outrage on the “white media,” according to CNN.