JTA: This neo-Nazi group is behind those fliers blaming Jews for the Kavanaugh allegations

NEW YORK (JTA) — Fliers blaming Jews for the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared in seeming random locations around the country last week.

“Every time some Anti-White, Anti-American, Anti-freedom event takes place, you look at it, and it’s Jews behind it,” the fliers read.

They showed an image of the judge surrounded by caricatures of Jewish senators with Stars of David drawn on their foreheads, as well as the Jewish billionaire George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic conspiracytheories.

The fliers say they are “Brought to you by your local Stormer Book Club.”

The Anti-Defamation League has confirmed that the posters appeared on college campuses and at organizations in six states: California, Iowa, New York, Virginia, Massachusetts and Illinois. The organization behind them claims they put up the posters in seven additional states.

How did the fliers turn up in such a wide array of places and who put them up? JTA spoke with experts from the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, two civil rights organizations that do research on anti-Semitic and white supremacist groups.

Anti-Semitic fliers appeared on college campuses and at organizations in at least six states: California, Iowa, New York, Virginia, Massachusetts and Illinois. (StandWithUs)

What are Stormer Book Clubs?

Though the name implies a literature discussion group, that’s not exactly what the clubs are about. Organized by the Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi site founded by white supremacist Andrew Anglin, they promote spreading anti-Semitic propaganda and other bigoted messages.

Anglin proposed creating the groups in 2016, to build “a real-life troll army” to support his message, according to the Anti-Defamation League. But it wasn’t until the following year that the groups took off, when Daily Stormer contributor Robert Warren Ray took charge and started organizing the network of groups.

The chapters are made up of young white men. No women can join. Members are not allowed to use their real names in person or online and wear a uniform of red New Balance sneakers, jeans, a white T-shirt and an American flag bandanna.

The groups are relatively small and chapters are usually only comprise two to 10 people, said Carla Hill, a senior investigative researcher at the ADL’s Center on Extremism. Based on the latest campaign, she estimates that the group only has about 50 members across the country.

“They struggled a bit to get going, but now it looks like they’re picking up some chapters and we expect more of this type of campaign,” she told JTA on Thursday.

Daily Stormer Book Club members wearing their uniforms. (Anti-Defamation League)

What do they do?

Putting up fliers is one of their favorite activities, said Keegan Hankes, a research analyst at SPLC who focuses on far right online campaigns.

“It’s pretty low risk, and it’s a good way to draw attention to yourselves,” he told JTA on Thursday.

The clubs have run three major flier campaigns this year, including the most recent one, Hill said. All of the campaigns specifically targeted Jews. In September, the group distributed fliers blaming Jews for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones getting kicked off various social media sites. In May, the group put up posters that said Jews were out to get rid of the Second Amendment. The Kavanaugh campaign had the widest reach, Hill said.

Though Jews tend to be their “favorite target,” the book clubs also promote bigotry against people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, women and anyone else who is perceived as “anti-white.”

“It’s just about everybody who’s not a straight white male,” Hankes said.

Andrew Anglin runs the anti-Semitic Daily Stormer website. (Wikimedia Commons)

Do they promote violence?

According to Hankes, the group’s main goal is to spread their message and instill fear in their communities, rather than cause people actual physical harm. It is “unlikely” that members take violent action, he said.

However, he said that there have been individual cases where individuals with alleged ties to the Daily Stormer committed real acts of violence, such as Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a black church in Charleston in 2015, and James Harris Jackson, who killed a black homeless man in New York last year.

“The fliers showing up in a community signals that you have people enthusiastic enough about the Daily Stormer to go out into the physical world and take some action, at least within driving distance of their community,” Hankes said.

Dylann Roof appearing in court in Charleston, South Carolina, July 18, 2015. (Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images)

How do they compare with other similar groups?

According to Hill, the Stormer Book Clubs are the most overtly anti-Semitic of the “alt-right” segment of the white supremacist movement. They present a less polished and more extreme image than larger groups such as Identity Evropa, which steers clear of neo-Nazi language and imagery to try to position themselves as more moderate.

“They want to get involved in mainstream politics, and be part of the ‘legitimate far right movement in America,'” Hill said of Identity Evropa. “Daily Stormer is not even trying to pretend to do that.”

Nathan Damigo, founder of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa speaking to media in Alexandria, Va., Aug. 14, 2017. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Hankes said that that the Daily Stormer had seen increased traffic since the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, who is seen by its readers as “a champion for them,” as well as the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year.

“They had a really electrified base throughout election,” he said, “and because politics have remained divisive and so contentious and so heated, we really see some of that enthusiasm sustained, and I think it probably will stay that way.”

Still, other signs point towards the weakening of the “alt-right.” In August, only two dozen people showed up to a white supremacist demonstration scheduled for the anniversary of the Charlottesville rally. Organizers had thought some 400 people would attend the event. Instead the small group of white supremacists was vastly outnumbered by thousands of counterprotesters.

SKOKIE - 35 years ago - A PERSONAL REFLECTION

Parents in Court Demanding Visitation Rights Despite Being Nazis If a person in this day and age espouses terrible ideas—is that enough for government to take their children ipso facto? By: Yori Yanover

The Campbells outside NJ court

Heath Campbell, 40, father to Adolf Hitler Campbell, 7, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, 6, Honzlynn Jeannie Campbell, 5, and Heinrich Hons Campbell, 18 months, was decked in a convincing—though historically mixed—Nazi getup, complete with knee-high black boots and swastika patches, as he attended a hearing in Flemington, New Jersey court, seeking to secure visitation rights to his youngest son.

Campbell, who also has a large swastika tattooed on his neck (for the beach?), was trying to win the rights to see little Heinrich Hons, who was taken away by social services shortly after he was born, in November 2011.

Adolf Hitler Campbell and two siblings had been taken into the agency’s care in 2009. The children have been put up for adoption and not seen by their parents in two years. A court denied the Campbells’ appeal to have their children returned last year.

In court filings, child services said the Campbell children were in danger because of violence in the home. Later, the parents were found not guilty of child abuse, but they still did not receive their children from protective custody.

Court records show that the oldest child, Adolf, made frequent threats of killing people. And, according to reports, Mrs. Canpbell once gave a note to her neighbor saying she was terrified of her husband, who was threatening to kill her.

Nazis are like that.

“I’m going to tell the judge I love my children. I wanna’ be a father, let me be it,” Heath Campbell told NBC10 before the hearing.

The Campbells, who say they are not neo-Nazis, made headlines in January 2008 when a supermarket refused to decorate a birthday cake for their son, decorated with the line “Happy birthday Adolf Hitler.”

“Basically, what they’re saying is because of my beliefs and I’m a Nazi, that us people don’t have any constitutional rights to fight for our children.”

Bethanie White, a member of his organization ‘Hitler’s Order’, was with Campbell at court – also covered in swastikas.

Asked whether dressing up as a Nazi was likely to help his case, Campbell was confident it would not be held against him: “If they’re good judges and they’re good people, they’ll look within, not what’s on the outside.”

Now, there’s a good question for y’all: if a person in this day and age espouses terrible ideas—is that enough for government to take away their children ipso facto? What if they endorse metzitza b’peh? What if they refuse to inoculate their children, or give them blood transfusions? Makes you think.

12 Year-Old Boy Stands Trial for Murdering Neo-Nazi Father Opening statements in trial of a 12-year-old boy accused of murdering his neo-Nazi father are set to begin Tuesday in Riverside, California.

Opening statements in the trial of a 12-year-old boy accused of murdering his neo-Nazi father are set to begin Tuesday in Riverside, California.

Then only ten years-old, Joseph Hall deliberately shot his father, who was a rising figure in Nationalist Socialist movement, using a snub-nose revolver at his family’s Riverside home.

“What he did, had it been done by anybody older, there would be no doubt that it was a murder,” said prosecutor Michael Soccio, according to The New York Times. “It’s planned. It’s premeditated. It was carried out in a cold, killing fashion. It is a murder.”

Joseph was present at neo-Nazi gatherings hosted by his parents and was taught at a young age how to use a firearm, but Riverside County prosecutors say the boy’s exposure to white supremacist culture probably won’t play a big role at trial.

Joseph’s public defender, Matthew J. Hardy, says his client has neurological and psychological problems, compounded by exposure to neo-Nazi “conditioning” and physical abuse in the home, the Times reported.

“He’s been conditioned to violence,” Mr. Hardy said, adding, “You have to ask yourself: Did this kid really know that this act was wrong based on all those things?”

Court documents reveal that the child was prone to violent outbursts and was frequently the target of his father’s drunken rages. The boy reportedly told police he killed his father to stop the abuse.

California’s penal code also states that children under 14 cannot be charged with a crime without clear proof that “they knew its wrongfulness.” The judge said she could make a ruling in the case as early as next week.

If convicted, Joseph Hall could remain in custody until the age of 25, providing he doesn’t commit any crimes while incarcerated.

SKOKIE (12)Final Part;(1981). Directed by Herbert Wise. This was Danny Kaye´s last film, a TV production. The American Nazi Party chooses Skokie, Illinois, a predominantly Jewish town, as the location for its next rally. The jewish citizens rise up against racism and fight for their rights.

Germany: Jewish Doctor Refuses To Operate On Nazi Patient

A Jewish doctor in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Paderborn has reportedly walked out of a surgery after discovering a Nazi tattoo on the arm of a patient.

The 36-year-old man needing an operation was tattooed with the image of the Reichsadler, or Imperial Eagle, perched upon a swastika, daily Bild reported on Friday.

The patient’s 46-year-old doctor said he could not reconcile proceeding with the surgery with his conscience, the paper reported.

“I will not operate on your husband,” the doctor told the man’s wife. “I’m Jewish.”

The doctor then had another physician finish the procedure, Bild reported.

Since the end of World War II the public display of Nazi party symbols, such as the swastika, have been forbidden in Germany, and carries punishment of up to three years in prison. The eagle, which was a German national symbol long before the Third Reich, is now called the Bundesadler.

Neo-Nazi Skinhead Couple Discover They Are JEWISH

Warsaw, Poland - A married couple have revealed how they turned their backs on their violent neo-Nazi past – after discovering they were both Jewish.

Hitler, 'Goyim' Tattooed Escapee Killed By Troopers on Connecticut Highway

A state trooper shot and killed a man who last month escaped from the U.S. Marshals Service and on Friday flashed a weapon at authorities who tried to stop him on Interstate 84.

The man has been identified as Albert James Voute III, 36, of 860 Oradell Ave., Oradell, N.J., state police said late Saturday.

He was driving a suspected stolen vehicle on I-84 eastbound when police tried to stop him. A trooper spotted him near Exit 4 at about 6:30 p.m.

Voute led police on a foot pursuit along I-84. During the chase, several police officers and witnesses saw "what appeared to be a handgun" in his possession, state police said.

A multi-state manhunt stretched up the East Coast, and the television show "America's Most Wanted" featured the white supremacist and former skinhead, who made his break -- shoeless -- while a transport guard was asleep during a stop.

He was also covered in tattoos, with a large portrait of Adolf Hitler on his back and a smaller one on his left leg. U.S. Marshals said he also had unidentifiable “tribal-style” tattoos on his left arm, as well as the word “Resist” inked on the back of his left arm and “Goyim” tattooed across his stomach.