{"id":13766,"date":"2012-08-27T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2012-08-27T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T02:17:20","slug":"holocaust-denier-and-open-nazi-runs-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/holocaust-denier-and-open-nazi-runs-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Denier and Open Nazi Runs for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nat_arthur_jones_congress_fb_03012012-584.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13768\" title=\"nat_arthur_jones_congress_fb_03012012-584\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nat_arthur_jones_congress_fb_03012012-584.jpg?resize=490%2C302\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"302\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><em>27 August 2012<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Republican candidate states: \u201cPhilosophically, I am A National Socialist\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Illinois Republican Congressional candidate, Arthur Jones, openly asserts his allegiance to Nazi\/fascism and asserts that the genocide of European Jews during World War II is a<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/2012\/03\/02\/the-blackest-lie-in-history-republican-congressional-candidate-says-the-holocaust-never-happened\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">Jewish \u201cextortion racket\u201d and &#8220;the blackest lie in history.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000\">Jones, who is running as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Dan Lipinski for control of Illinois\u2019 3rd Congressional District, has a long history of white supremacist and Neo-Nazi activism. Jones has been very public about his fascist views and past history, asserting that he does not reject his \u201cpast affiliations.\u201d Jones, previously a member of the American National Socialist Party, participated in that organization&#8217;s infamous attempt to march through the predominantly Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie in 1978.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The Illinois 3rd Congressional District consists of a sizable portion of Chicago\u2019s South Side as well as a number of Chicago suburbs, many of whom have substantial immigrant Mexican and ethnic Irish, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern populations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Jones states that his decision to run was motivated by the fact that, in his view,<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/229369.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff\">\u201cOur country is falling apart economically, politically, culturally, militarily. We are going down.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000\">Jones, a Vietnam veteran who founded the Neo-Nazi organization Veterans of Jewish Wars and hosts annual celebrations of Adolf Hitler\u2019s birthday. Jones claimed that he is running as Republican as he \u201cvotes Republican 90% of the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>27 August 2012 Republican candidate states: \u201cPhilosophically, I am A National Socialist\u201d Illinois Republican Congressional candidate, Arthur Jones, openly asserts his allegiance to Nazi\/fascism and..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,166,84,97],"tags":[357,345],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-government","category-statements","category-us-news","tag-racism","tag-reactionary-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/nat_arthur_jones_congress_fb_03012012-584_13766_fadc0.jpg?fit=584%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}