For Any Jews Still Wondering Which Party Is On Their Side, Jan. 6 Answered The Question

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- 'If there were any Jews still wondering which party is on their side, Jan. 6 answered the question.' Daily Kos, 1/23/21

Late on the afternoon of Jan. 6, the Associated Press called the Georgia Senate race for documentary filmmaker Jon Ossoff. Just a few hours earlier, Donald Trump had incited an insurrection that saw his followers—a number of whom openly and proudly displayed vile anti-Semitic signs and language—violently take over the Capitol in an attempted coup that would have spelled the end of our democracy. A single, solitary minute separated the AP’s call and Trump’s issuance of a post-takeover video in which, although he told the rioters to go home, he also said he loved them, told them they were special, and restated the lie that his “landslide” election victory had been “stolen from us.”

No single 24-hour period of the Trump presidency so effectively encapsulated the contrast between Democrats and Republicans when it comes to Jewish Americans: Defending (as opposed to threatening) our physical safety, protecting our rights and our full membership in the American national community, and promoting the broader progressive values that are so important to the overwhelming majority of us. Beyond the broader white supremacy and fascism displayed by the pro-Trump mob, there were specific anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi elements that merit sustained attention.

Brandeis University professor of American Jewish history Jonathan Sarna broke down what he saw & connected it to the hatred of Jews that’s so widespread among adherents of QAnon, white nationalists, & other members of the far right.

- One of the many horrifying images from the Jan. 6 rampage on the U.S. Capitol shows a long-haired, long-bearded man wearing a black “Camp Auschwitz” T-shirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones, and under it the phrase “work brings freedom” – an English translation of the Auschwitz concentration camp motto: “Arbeit macht frei.” These and related images, captured on television and retweeted on social media, demonstrate that some of those who traveled to Washington to support Trump were engaged in much more than just a doomed effort to maintain their hero in power.
As their writings make clear to me as a scholar of American anti-Semitism, some among them also hoped to trigger what is known as the “Great Revolution,” based on a fictionalized account of a government takeover and race war, that, in its most extreme form, would exterminate Jews. -

Jews were rightly horrified by the embrace of genocidal hate shown by some among the Trumpist mob—violent hate that reflects ideologies expressed by the white nationalist far right both before and throughout the Trump era. When people say that they want to kill all the Jews, history has taught us not to dismiss it...

More, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/23/2009254/-If-there-were-any-Jews-still-wondering-which-party-is-on-their-side-Jan-6-answered-the-question

~ It happened, therefore it can happen again. - Primo Levi, Italian Holocaust survivor.

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