Antisemitic flyers claiming Antifa is a “Jewish Communist Militia” found in Staten Island, New York
According to a local news outlet, several antisemitic flyers were discovered in public areas of Staten Island, New York on 2nd January.
The content claimed that the far-left group Antifa operates as a “Jewish communist militia” that is engaged in an active “war against all non-Jewish European-American nationalists”. The flyer claimed that this “war” is “anti-white nationalist, anti-American, [and] anti-Christian”.
Four of the flyers were spotted in total by local residents on a single commercial stretch. Two were attached to a medical office building, with one located on a bus stop, and the fourth was posted on a sign in a supermarket car park. Another flyer had been reported the previous day.
The name and website address of the New Jersey European Heritage (NJEHA), a New-Jersey based white supremacist group, were listed on the posters. One article on the website makes reference to the “forces of international Zionism acting through the Jewish supremacist state of Israel”. The NJEHA is known to encourage members to spread hateful propaganda through printed stickers, leaflets and flyers.
In January 2020 similar flyers were discovered in the same area that detailed 9/11 conspiracy theories which suggested that the Jewish people were responsible for the terrorist attack.
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is currently responding to the recent incident and investigations remain ongoing.
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