Watchdogs who track antisemitic and white supremacist extremists warned that the post-election period would likely see expressions of violence from those groups, among others. Trump appeared to encourage the group’s disruptive tactics in presidential debates. The Proud Boys group - which also had members attend the deadly neo-Nazi march in Charlotteville, Virginia in 2017 - has had leaders in the past who have defended Holocaust deniers. Notably, the Justice Department won an indictment against five members of the group for sedition. One scheduled witness is Nick Quested, a documentarian who was embedded with the group. The first session, Thursday evening, will present a timeline of the events leading up to the riot, and it appears as if the Proud Boys, a far-right organization, will feature prominently. Protesters who claim to be members of the Proud Boys gather with other supporters of President Donald Trump to protest outside the U.S.
Here are five Jewish angles to watch for on Thursday evening as the hearings unfold. McCarthy has on occasion denounced the statements but has resisted disciplining the lawmakers. 6, and he’s turned his back on the Constitution.”Ĭheney was referring to far-right Republican lawmakers like Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, who have made comments that Jewish groups have denounced as offensive and antisemitic. “And therefore he is embracing those in our party who are antisemitic, he is embracing those in our party who are white nationalists, he is lying about what happened on Jan. “I think that he has decided that, you know, the most important thing to him is to attempt to be Speaker of the House,” Cheney said on CBS Sunday Morning. Cheney said that the House’s GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy, has resisted the work of the committee because he caters to extremists and antisemites. Ĭheney, a pro-Israel stalwart, and Adam Kinzinger, the only other Republican on the committee, have effectively been cut off from the rest of the party for agreeing to serve on the commission. A number of neo-Nazi and conspiracy theory-aligned groups attended the riot. “People must watch, and they must understand how easily our democratic system can unravel if we don’t defend it.”Ĭheney has also in recent weeks suggested antisemitism and white supremacy will feature in the committee’s narrative of the plotting. “People must pay attention,” the committee’s lead Republican, Wyoming Rep. Many of their revelations have already leaked to the media. The committee has conducted over a thousand interviews and has tens of thousands of pages of documents in hand.
The goal is to chronicle the events leading up to the riot, and suggest ways for it never to happen again (for Democrats, at least, the goal is also to horrify the public ahead of the fall midterms). There will be more hearings held intermittently through September. They will be broadcast on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, is launching primetime hearings at 8 p.m. Capitol is about to tell a story, and it comes with a warning: Some parts might be unsettling to Jews. House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the Jan.
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