US white nationalist groups step up recruitment with racist fliers

White nationalist groups in the United States have stepped up their recruitment efforts by posting and distributing racism and anti-Semitism flyers to cities and towns across the country.

Earlier this week, anti-Semitism leaflets were left at a small number of businesses in Whitefish, Montana, and it was time to coincide with Rosh Hashanah, a New Year holiday.

Cherilyn DeVries, a local Love Lives Here organizer in partnership with the Montana Human Rights Network, told Montana Public Radio that "people started contacting us right away."

“In the past, people took them and abandoned them because they didn't know what to do, so they got sick. But they didn't know exactly what to do. ”

In recent years, the Whitefish leaflet, a city that has been arguing over a lawsuit involving a local Jewish realtor and a mother of white nationalist and former leader Richard Spencer, took place a week after a similar incident in Helena, Montana.

The incident also occurs in the national campaign of Patriot Front, a white nationalist organization known to distribute propaganda aimed at universities and college campuses with racist flyers and stickers.

There is currently no indication that the Whitefish case is related to campus recruitment campaigns.

This weekend and this week, Patriot Front claims to have posted flyers on campuses in cities and towns from Texas to Virginia, according to a post on the Gab social media account.

'Reclaim America'

According to the Charleston Police Department report, the leaflets published publicly by the Group of Charleston College of Charleston, South Carolina, wrote "Reclaim America", "One State Against Aggression" and "American First", Donald Trump, the last slogan that was banned popularly by the US president.

Similar leaflets came from Christopher Newport University, Richmond University, James Madison University, and the University of Mary Washington.

“We condemn this racism and white supremacy and urge political leaders from Montana, South Carolina, Virginia, and the nation to speak out against the growing prejudice that inevitably leads to such events.” American Islamic Relations Council National Communications Coordinator Ayan Ajeen said. declaration.

"The chain of events must act as a request to the authorities to closely monitor the activities of such hate groups."

Patriot Front was founded in August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, shortly after the deadly Unite the Right rally.

The Patriot Front marched with the murderer James Alex Fields Jr, who was convicted of the ruins of another white supremacy group Vanguard America. Heyer during the right wing rally.

The Alabama-based hate monitor, Southern Poverty Law Center, describes the Patriot Front as an organization that clings to hate groups and "an image that rebuilt the apparent fascist agenda of a patriotic patriotism."

In a similar leaflet distribution case, TRT World obtained Arlington Police Department documents and emails about the Patriot Front activities in Arlington, Texas.

According to police reports, Patriot Fron says “New Nazi extremist groups” and hit the city's interstate highway banner in June 2018.

Propaganda increase

Earlier this summer, Patriot Front held a flash rally outside Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studio, a popular bar in Denton, Texas. The protesters shouted "Reclaim America" ​​by burning flares in front of the facility.

Spokesman Khristen Jones of the Denton Police Department explained to TRT World that police investigators knew there was no connection between protests and attacks, and protests were not allowed but were not investigated.

The next day, in an unrelated incident, a group of men with swastika on their arms attacked Denton's Harvest House bar manager Alex Moon.

According to the Witnesses, a man shouted, "This country is a free country." “K * ke” developed another anti-Jewish slander, screaming. Then the young men threw beer on the moon using a shirt. The other picked up pint glasses and bumped from the side of the victim's face.

City councilor Deb Armintor applauded the protesters the next day when they called up Denton residents for help and asked for help. A safer city for "all except Nazi".

“Thank you for standing here and showing people that Denton will not tolerate fascism. Denton does not tolerate Nazism, and Denton does not tolerate racism. If we do that [up]You can help make everyone feel safer than anyone else.

During the 2018-2019 school year, the Anti-Defamation League recorded 313 white propaganda events on college campuses. The figure increased by 7{7be40b84a6a43fc4fae13304fce9a2695859798abfc41afd127b9f8b21c5f9c5} compared to the previous year.

According to a survey by the Center for Extremism and Hate Research, hate crimes rose by 9 percent last year in 30 large US cities.

Critics regularly criticize President Donald Trump for causing violence by repeatedly targeting immigrants and political opponents.

Source: TRT World