The US-based Holocaust Survivors Foundation's Executive Committee denounced last week's Capito riots in Washington, saying in a statement that "as Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors, we are profoundly saddened and angered by the violent attack on the United States Capitol and Congress to prevent our Nation's sacred peaceful transition of power.
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"It was an insurrection, an effort to overturn the people's will in the Nov. 3 election. For shame! We abhor the violence that threatens our ability to live together in the diverse, free, and democratic United States that we so deeply love.
"Dangerous anti-Semitic conspiracies once confined to dark corners of the internet are gaining traction in 'respectable' quarters, without clear condemnation by all who call themselves leaders," the group continued.
"We, the remaining voices for six million Jews who were murdered because of the 'normalization' of these tactics in Nazi Germany and Europe, are speaking out to sound the alarm loud and clear. The poisonous political rhetoric from government leaders and media designed to arouse hateful passions, fan the flames of anger and violence, must be condemned by our leaders at every level, and by all of us in our families, businesses, religious institutions, and communities."
