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Illinois GOP Congressional Candidate: ‘The Holocaust Never Happened’

Jones, a neo-Nazi, wants runs to be GOP candidate for Congress

Art Jones wants to be the U.S. Representative from the 3rd district of Illinois, which encompasses part of the South Side of Chicago and its suburbs. But his mish-mash of a platform — ranging from some standard Republican positions to classical isolationism — will probably not garner the same attention as his views that surfaced today on AOL’s Patch local news service. Jones, a neo-Nazi, says the “Holocaust never happened“:

As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews. It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.

The more survivors, the more lies that are told.

Jones says his philosophy is National Socialism (Nazi for short) and he was once a member of an Illinois Nazi party. “Officially,” says Jones today, “I don’t belong to any party except my own, the America First Committee” — harkening back to a group, among them fascist sympathizers, that opposed U.S. entry into World War II. Accordingly, Jones wants to end the so-called “war on terror” and is “completely against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the deployment of troops to other countries.”

Despite his party identification, Jones remains a registered Republican, he says. He told Patch he votes for the GOP “90 percent of the time.” That doesn’t, though, shield the GOP from rhetoric that derides “the current Repugnant Republicans.” (HT: Huffington Post)

Update

The Republican Jewish Coalition pointed out on Twitter that the Illinois GOP released a statement last December that says, “The Illinois Republican Party disavows any association with the candidacy of Arthur Jones and ask [sic] that all citizens of Illinois do the same.”

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