A US Capitol Police officer was suspended on Monday after an anti-Semitic document was found near his work area, the department said.
A congressional aide spotted a printed copy of “The Protocols of the Meetings of the Wise Men of Zion” at a checkpoint at the entrance to the Longworth House Office Building.
“When I left my office in Longworth yesterday, I discovered something that, as a Jew, horrified me. At the security checkpoint of the United States Capitol Police, someone left the vile anti-Semitic propaganda in plain view,” Zach Fisch , chief of staff for Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York tweeted Monday.
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The Washington Post, which first reported the story, said it provided photos of the treaty on the table in Longworth to the Capitol Police on Monday.
Acting chief Yogananda D. Pittman said she suspended the officer pending an investigation “after anti-Semitic reading material was discovered near her work area on Sunday”.
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“We take all allegations of inappropriate behavior seriously,” Pittman said in a statement. “I immediately ordered the officer to be suspended until the Office of Professional Responsibility could conduct a full investigation.”
Originally published in the 20th century, the vile treatise has become a basic text of white supremacist groups. It is described as “a classic of paranoid and racist literature” by the Anti-Defamation League.
The State Department, in a 2004 report, said that “the clear objective of the [document is] to incite hatred of Jews and Israel. “
The copy found in the Congress building “was tattered and more than two years old,” Fish said on Twitter.
He wondered if the document had been distributed, why the policeman felt comfortable leaving it in plain sight, and how many other members of the police shared those beliefs.
The department has been under scrutiny since the January 6 deadly riot, when hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an effort to block President Biden’s election victory certification.
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“This is a national security issue and a security issue in the workplace,” wrote Fisch. “Our office is full of people – black, brown, Jewish, homosexual – who have good reason to fear white supremacists. If the USCP is all that stands between us and the crowd we saw on January 6, how can we feel safe? “
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This report originally appeared in the New York Post.