Jewish Ledger
The Capitol under attack
By Shira Hanau
(JTA) – Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday – but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday, Jan. 6. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
But that afternoon, unaware that his compatriots were now occupying the Senate chamber and its environs, he said that he, too, would like to take his complaint straight to the halls of Congress.
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Security forces respond with tear gas after US President Donald Trump s supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
JTA Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the US Capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to Washington, DC, to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday. He left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters decry violence but not the movement that fueled the mob January 7, 2021 10:12 am Security forces respond with tear gas after the US President Donald Trumps supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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(JTA) Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.