They swarmed the monument with Tiki torches that flickered in the dark, their shouts piercing what had been a quiet evening on the Lawn at the University of Virginia.
There, at the foot of the bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, they chanted, “Jews will not replace us!”
The neo-Nazis and white supremacists who recently descended on Charlottesville ignored one key historical fact, among others: Monticello, Jefferson's beloved iconic mansion just a few miles southeast, was saved from ruin by Jews.
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