In boasting of his support among African American voters, Donald Trump made some false and misleading statements: 1  Trump claimed âAfrican American youth is 58 percent unemployed.â The official unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 19 in January was 25.2 percent.
For other uses, see Maccabees (disambiguation). The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: ××××× or ××§×××ââ, Maqabim; Latin: Machabaei or Maccabaei; Greek: Î¼Î±ÎºÎºÎ±Î²Î±á¿Î¿Î¹, Makkabaioi), were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire.
Mattathiasâ sons can to be known as the Maccabees, which comes from the root of the Hebrew word for âhammerâ since the band of insurgents were said to strike hammer-like blows against their enemies. The patriarch Mattathias was killed shortly after the fighting against the Greeks began.