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American Jewish leaders, shaken by last week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and its antisemitic underpinnings, told the Secretary-designate of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, that he should create a new liaison to the Jewish community focused on domestic terrorism.
In a Friday call that was scheduled before Wednesday’s unprecedented assault on the Capitol, Mayorkas, who is Jewish, signaled that combating domestic terrorism would be a priority amid an surge of white supremacy and neo-Nazi activity, participants said in interviews on Sunday. It was part of a series of calls with Jewish leaders planned by the Biden transition team.
Jewish Groups Condemn Violent Protests at the Capitol
Various Jewish groups have issued statements condemning the violent mob at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on January 6.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported that those who are protesting the certification of the Electoral College vote for President-elect Joe Biden stormed the United States Capitol Building, causing members of Congress to evacuate their offices. At least one person has been shot, according to JTA, and that person has reportedly died.
Jewish groups condemned the violence.
“The right to protest is sacrosanct in American life,” Simon Wiesenthal Center Founder and Dean Rabbi Marvin Hier and Associate Director of Global Social Action Agenda Rabbi Abraham Cooper said in a statement. “But the very values and rights bestowed by our democracy are degraded and diminished when police officers have to draw their guns to protect our duly elected officials in the heart of our nation by violent protesters
The Jewish Left s Warnock Whitewash | Opinion On 12/30/20 at 6:00 AM EST
Many on the Left in the Jewish community have reduced anti-Semitism to a partisan weapon. According to them, whether an individual s statements about Jews or Israel are bigoted depends entirely upon that individual s political affiliation or worse, his or her race.
Ilhan Omar and David Duke say many of the same things about Jews, and Duke has backed and praised Omar on numerous occasions for echoing his words. Yet many on the Jewish Left insist that only Duke is hateful and even claim, deplorably, that it is Omar s critics who are biased.