Does The Secret Relationship “single out” Jews?

One Jewish critic charged that the book published by the Nation of Islam “relentlessly singled out the Jews, with no mention of the many thousands of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French and British merchants, shippers and colonists who were slavetraders and slaveowners.” Even the renowned television newsman David Brinkley pressed this point. Prof. Tony Martin explains in his great work The Jewish Onslaught:

1. Not to be outdone, Brinkley then added his two cents’ worth of garbled gobbledegook. With the authoritative air of the blissfully ignorant he piped in—“[Martin] is saying that the Jews were prominent in the slave trade. It was the Portuguese who did that.” This would be akin to saying that the members of the Hillel Foundation were not Jews—they were Americans. A large percentage of the early Portuguese slave dealers were in fact Jews. At some times and places in early New World history “Portuguese” and “Jew” were practically synonymous. Portuguese names proliferated, for example, among the early Sephardic Jewish settlers in North America.
   

In all of these countries Jews constituted the merchant class and held primacy over foreign trade. As Prof. Martin stated, Jewish historians have long acknowledged that in the documentary history the term “Portuguese” is SYNONYMOUS with Jews. The Dutch invited the fleeing Portuguese Jews just to engage in trade and they promptly financed the Dutch West India Company, among other slave dealing ventures. The French Gradis family even held a monopoly on the slave trade from the infamous Goree Island—better described by the Africans as Aushwitz.