Calif education official who penned antisemitic theories back at work – J jweekly.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jweekly.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Close icon
Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Riots at the US Capitol Building. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press:LightRocket/Getty
Jewish Americans have been politically divided over support for Trump.
The pro-Trump Capitol riot on January 6 that featured at least one Holocaust reference showed the depth of that chasm.
While most American Jews voted for Biden, most Orthodox Jews approved of Trump s job as president.
Among the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, was a white man with long graying hair and a thick white beard. Emblazoned on his hooded sweatshirt, pictured in several photographs from the insurrection, were the words, Camp Auschwitz. Beneath the reference to the Holocaust concentration camp that killed 1.1 million people during World War II was an image of a skull with the phrase Work brings freedom, a translatio
TORONTO Over the course of Donald Trump s presidency, QAnon conspiracy theorists – those who believe in a “deep state” plot against Trump, along with a shadowy cabal of pedophiles and child traffickers embedded in the upper echelons of U.S. power – have “waited and watched” for a reckoning in the U.S. government. Biden’s inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20, was meant to be the stage of what was colloquially termed as “the storm,” or “great awakening,” where “true patriots” of the country would swoop down and arrest Democrats at the U.S. Capitol, Trump would remain in power and a cataclysmic shift in politics and the social agenda would occur.
Capitol insurrection displayed many of the symbols of American racism
Supporters of President Trump participate in a rally in Washington. Within and outside the walls of the Capitol, banners and symbols of white supremacy and anti-government extremism were displayed as an insurrectionist mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol.
(John Minchillo / Associated Press)
CHICAGO
Amid the American flags and Trump 2020 posters at the U.S. Capitol during last week’s insurrection were far more sinister symbols: A man walking the halls of Congress carrying a Confederate flag. Banners proclaiming white supremacy and anti-government extremism. A makeshift noose and gallows ominously erected outside.
US Capitol riot: Years of white supremacy threats culminated in riot
15 Jan, 2021 01:18 AM
6 minutes to read
White supremacist images culminate at Capitol riot. Video / AP Video
AP
Amid the American flags and Trump 2020 posters at the US Capitol during last week s insurrection were far more sinister symbols: A man walking the halls of Congress carrying a Confederate flag. Banners proclaiming white supremacy and anti-government extremism. A makeshift noose and gallows ominously erected outside.
In many ways this hate-filled display was the culmination of many others over the past few years, including the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that gathered extremist factions from across the country under a single banner.