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Identity Evropa

January 02, 2024

Identity Evropa (/juːˈroʊpə/) was an American neo-Nazi[8][9][10] and white supremacist[10][11][12] organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded[16] as the American Identity Movement in March 2019.[2][17] In November 2020, the group disbanded.[5] Leaders and members of Identity Evropa, such as former leader Elliot Kline, praised Nazi Germany and pushed for what they described as the "Nazification of America".[9]

Identity Evropa
American Identity Movement
The Dragon's Eye, the group's symbol as Identity Evropa[1]
Also known asAmIM,[2] AIM, IE (formerly)
Leader
  • (Founder) Nathan Damigo (2016 – Aug. 2017)
  • Elliot Kline (Aug. – Nov. 2017)[3]
  • Patrick Casey (Nov. 2017 – Nov. 2020)[4]
FoundationMarch 2016
DissolvedNovember 2020[5]
CountryUnited States
MotivesTo seize control of the US government, establish a white ethnostate, and spread support for white nationalism
HeadquartersWashington D.C.
Ideology

Affiliated with:

Political positionFar-right
Sizeroughly 800 as of July 2018[6][7]
Flag
Websitewww.identityevropa.com
www.americanidentitymovement.com[dead link]

The white supremacist slogan "You will not replace us" originated from the group.[18] In an attempt to boost its numbers, Identity Evropa allied itself with the broader alt-right and identitarian movements[11] and the group targeted college campuses and students in particular[19] by distributing slogans on fliers, posters, and stickers.[7][11][12] According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Identity Evropa was one of several groups which contributed to the growth of white supremacism in the United States during the 2010s, with the organization being designated by it as an influential hate group during its four-year existence.[19][20][21]

In March 2018, it was reported that the group was seeing steep declines in membership. The collapse was similarly seen in other alt-right groups, and was attributed to a widespread public backlash against white supremacist organizations that occurred after the 2017 Charlottesville rally.[22] In March 2019, following a leak of the group's Discord messages published by the non-profit left-wing media collective Unicorn Riot, Patrick Casey, the group's leader, rebranded[13][14][15] the group with the new name "American Identity Movement" with an Americana aesthetic, despite initially claiming they were unrelated organizations.[2][17]

History edit

The organization's founder, Nathan Damigo (/dəˈmɪɡoʊ/), is a self-described member of the identitarian movement.[21] Damigo grew up in San Jose, California,[21] and was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 2004 to 2007.[11] In November 2007, Damigo robbed a La Mesa, California, taxicab driver at gunpoint, believing that the man was Iraqi.[11][23] Damigo was convicted of armed robbery and was incarcerated for a year in county jail and four years in state prison.[21][11] He said of the event that "it's something that I'm certainly not proud of," attributing his behavior to "major issues" after returning from Iraq.[21]

In prison, Damigo began to read works by far-right figures, including David Duke.[21][11] He was also influenced by J. Philippe Rushton and Nicholas Wade.[11] After being released from prison in 2014,[24] Damigo led the National Youth Front,[24][11] the youth wing of the American Freedom Party.[11] The group was classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League,[24] with the SPLC reporting that it was founded by "racist Southern California skinheads that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule."[11] The National Youth Front later disbanded.[24][11] Damigo founded Identity Evropa in March 2016.[11] His activities with "racist organizations" has been disavowed by his father.[25]

In the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally, the leadership position passed onto Elliot Kline, aka Eli Mosley.[3] The group participated in the planning for the October 19, 2017 speech by Richard B. Spencer, a white supremacist, at the University of Florida, where Mosley also spoke. In addition to Spencer and Mosley, the speakers included Mike Enoch, a white nationalist blogger.[26][27] The event drew about 2,500 protesters, vastly outnumbering Spencer's supporters.[28][29]

Re-branding as "American Identity Movement" edit

In March 2019, the non-profit left-wing media collective Unicorn Riot released more than 770,000 messages leaked from Discord channels related to the group. The leaks had been published on the "Discord Leaks platform" established by Unicorn Riot.[2] Within the leaked chat logs, members of the groups are discovered to have laid out plans to "infiltrate" local Republican parties and win public offices, plans to influence local media to garner positive coverage, as well as plans for rebranding the group's racism and antisemitism with the "identitarian" label and innocuous-sounding slogans such as "Make America Beautiful Again". The Southern Poverty Law Center commented that the group's rebrands "offers further cover to smuggle white nationalist views into mainstream politics", and that its attempts to influence media for spreading propaganda and recruiting were "often successful". Shortly after the leak, Patrick Casey said that the group "has been retired" and announced the formation a new group, "American Identity Movement". The SPLC commented that the new group will continue Identity Evropa's efforts at "quietly working to normalize their ideas within the Republican Party."[17] After the leak, Discord removed Identity Evropa chat channels from the platform. The group switched to Slack, but was again removed shortly. Zelle stated that they would investigate and remove associated accounts, after journalists informed the platform that Identity Evropa was using it to raise funds. Legal documents filed to the Arizona Corporation Commission under the AIM front group "Foundation for American Society" was found to have used Identity Evropa's email address.[30]

 
The group's logo after it was re-branded

The leak of Identity Evropa's Discord messages led to journalists and antifascist activists exposing the identities of many of its members.[31] Following the leak, an investigation by HuffPost reported that seven Identity Evropa members were also currently serving in the U.S. armed forces and were actively disseminating Identity Evropa materials in their communities. According to military spokespersons, several of them were being investigated by their military branches.[32][33] A Chesterfield County Police officer in Virginia who was working as a school resource officer at a local high school was also identified as a pledge coordinator for Identity Evropa.[34] The officer was suspended from his position, and the Chesterfield police chief began the process for him to be fired per state law.[35][36][37] In April 2019, a teacher at Valley Christian School near San Jose, California was placed on paid leave while the school investigated allegations he was a member of the group, based on leaked chat logs.[38][39] In the same month, a master sergeant of the U.S. Air Force's 50th Space Wing was being investigated by the military as a possible member, again based on leaked chat logs. The sergeant had allegedly posted photographs of himself applying group stickers, holding banners, and painting Identity Evropa's logo on an underpass in Colorado Springs.[40][41] Also in April, a 19-year-old National Guard recruit from Chaska, Minnesota and a member of the group, was recalled from basic training and investigated by the Minnesota National Guard.[42]

In late April 2019, Unicorn Riot published several audio recordings of the group's weekly meetings. These audio recordings reveal that, despite Casey's claim that American Identity Movement is not a rebrand of Identity Evropa, the two are in fact the same group. Matthew Warner, the group's second-in-command, admitted in the recordings that Identity Evropa's membership list and dues payments directly carry over to the AIM, and reiterated that the group would only accept non-Jewish White Americans. After the Discord leak, the groups has used stricter vetting processes in an attempt to prevent future leaks, where members are required to make two Skype calls and one in-person meeting before being given "sensitive information" such as the location of the group's new headquarter in Washington D.C.. After the rebrand, Identity Evropa continued its attempts to coordinate its members to edit the group's Wikipedia page into more favorable terms. Leaders of the group expressed fear that the existing page for IE would simply be renamed into AIM, which would foil the groups's rebranding attempts. In the recordings, Casey urged members to rebrand their social media accounts as well, saying that the groups's new Americana aesthetic would help its members avoid being held accountable for their membership. Discussing the group's strategy, Casey said in the recordings that the group would appeal to the "boomer patriot crowd", and would ideally exploit political crises to seize control of the United States government, and replacing it with a white-only "identitarian" regime.[31]

Fake "Antifa" Twitter account edit

In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, Identity Evropa set up a false flag account on Twitter purporting to represent the antifascist movement antifa. The account urged violence, with comments such as "Tonight's the night, Comrades ... Tonight we say 'Fuck The City' and we move into the residential areas... the white hoods.... and we take what's ours." According to a spokesperson for Twitter, it was not the first time that Identity Evropa had created such fake accounts. Before the account was closed down by Twitter, it had been cited by United States law enforcement officials as an example of left-wing radicals attempting to foment violence.[citation needed] A comment on the account was re-posted on Instagram by Donald Trump Jr., who commented about antifa, "They're not even pretending anymore." John Cohen, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official, said, "Time and time again we have seen public figures, media personalities and even government officials amplifying disinformation and extremist rhetoric intended to inspire violence. ... A great step in deescalating the violence currently facing the Nation would be for this to end." Facebook also took action against supposed antifa accounts, and had prevented the Twitter postings from being distributed on its platform.[43][44][45]

In 2017, Data & Society, a non-profit research organization, documented how fake antifa accounts are used to damage the movement, writing, "Various white supremacist groups have consistently tried to damage Antifa's reputation in the media by 'doxing' protesters (releasing their personal information) or impersonating them online ... Throughout 2017, right-wing manipulators utilized parody to discredit Antifa, taking advantage of available Twitter handles and public confusion about the organization and their motives."[46]

Views edit

Identity Evropa is a neo-Nazi and white supremacist group;[12][11][47] the organization espouses white supremacist[48] and white separatist views.[24][49] The group endorses racial segregation.[47] It "bills itself as a 'generation of awakened Europeans' who 'oppose those who would defame our history and rich cultural heritage'".[11] Damigo describes it as "an identitarian organization"[7] and says that the group's aim is to "act as a fifth column, over time shifting the edifice of our political establishment" in favor of what he describes as "pro-white" interests.[50] Identity Evropa's spokesman and director of administration, Reinhard Wolff, states that Identity Evropa is engaged in a "culture war" in an effort to create a "90 percent white" America.[49]

The white supremacist slogan "You will not replace us" originated from the group, according to the Anti-Defamation League, after Damigo and other members of Identity Evropa appeared on camera chanting the words during LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner's HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US project at New York's Museum of the Moving Image in February 2017.[18]

Identity Evropa excludes Jews from membership because Damigo regards Jews as non-white.[7][51] Only those "of European, non-Semitic heritage" may join the group.[11] Damigo claims that "Jewish power, Jewish influence" has "been extraordinarily negative for people of European heritage".[7] He has refused to say whether he acknowledges the Holocaust.[51][7]

The Anti-Defamation League has labeled Identity Evropa a white supremacist group,[5][52][53] and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks extremist groups in the United States, has designated it as a hate group.[19][54][55][56] Their campus-centric advertising posters depict photos of classical Greek sculptures of men overlaid with various short slogans which urge whites to embrace cultural elitism. Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the SPLC, states, "Identity Evropa is merely the latest iteration of the white-supremacist movement. Although you might think, based on their propaganda, that they're all about Plato and Aristotle and Socrates, in fact they're merely a gussied-up version of the Klan."[50] Anna North, writing in The New York Times, states that the group promotes racism under the guise of white racial pride and cultural identity for those who are of European ancestry.[57]

Activities edit

In December 2016, the group had roughly 200 members.[24] In a February 2017 interview, Damigo claimed a membership of 300.[7] The group has distributed fliers on dozens of college campuses including the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, Lynchburg College, Liberty University,[58] University of Massachusetts Amherst, UCLA, San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego, Penn State, Ohio State, and the University of Washington.[12][7][54][59][60] According to an ADL count, Identity Evropa was by far the most active white supremacist group on college campuses in 2017, responsible for 158 of the 346 incidents nationwide of the posting of white supremacist propaganda fliers.[61] These fliers typically show photos of classical and neoclassical sculpture. According to art critic Ben Davis, the random use of dissimilar photos demonstrates a poor understanding of European culture and art history.[62]

At Ohio State, the group has considered seeking recognized student organization status.[52] The group's "#ProjectSiege" aims to "siege" college campuses with literature[52] in order to combat what Damigo describes as a "false anti-white narrative" by professors, whom Damigo calls "charlatans."[50][63]

In late 2016, Damigo and Identity Evropa members traveled to Washington, D.C., for a post-election conference hosted by the white supremacist National Policy Institute, at which keynote speaker Richard B. Spencer and several other attendees rendered a Nazi salute.[24]

During the 2017 Berkeley protests, Damigo punched a young woman, captured on video that subsequently went viral.[64] Footage showed Damigo punching the woman in the face, then running away into the crowd.[48] The attack prompted calls for Damigo's arrest or expulsion from Cal State Stanislaus, where he is a student; the university subsequently said that it was investigating Damigo.[48]

Damigo has been identified as a leader in the August 2017 Unite the Right rally. A news source that has interviewed him states that "Damigo has made these rallies a key driver for recruiting new members of the group".[65] Additionally, Peter Cvjetanovic, one of the members of Identity Evropa, was dubbed as the "angry torch guy" in the Unite the Right rally.[66]

On July 28, 2018, around 45 members of Identity Evropa, some dressed as construction workers, demonstrated outside the Mexican consulate in Manhattan, New York City, holding large letters that spelled out "Build the Wall". The government of Mexico said it had written a diplomatic note to the State Department protesting the incident.[67] Later that day, a group of several dozen Identity Evropa members hung a banner in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan. The banner, which said "Stop the invasion, end immigration", overlooked the Henry Hudson Parkway. The response of the Washington Heights and Inwood communities was to hold a "vigil against hate" at the same site on July 31.[68][69]

On February 9, 2019, eleven Identity Evropa members went to the University of Utah's Block U carrying colored smoke flares and a banner that read, "End immigration!" Patrick Casey stated that the action was in response to the University's condemning of the organization earlier in the year, after it had posted stickers around the campus. Police were called, but the members left before they arrived.[70]

On April 27, 2019, hours after the Poway synagogue shooting in California, around ten members of Identity Evropa disrupted a book discussion event at the Politics and Prose bookstore at Washington D.C. The book discussed at the event was Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland, by Jonathan Metzl, which discusses how working class white Americans who were attracted by the Trump administration's promises end up having a greater risk of illness and a shorter life expectancy as a result of its policies. Members of the group interrupted Metzl's speech using a bullhorn, said "You would have the white working class trade their homeland for handouts. But we, as nationalists and identitarians, can offer the workers of this country a homeland, their birthright, in addition to health care, good jobs and so forth.", and chanted "This land is our land" while walking through the bookstore, before exiting ten minutes later. Washington D.C. mayor, Muriel Bowser, condemned the Poway shooting and the bookstore disruption in a tweet, denouncing the former as "horrific act of hate and antisemitism" and the latter as "ignorance and hate".[71][72]

The 2019 leaks also disclosed that the organizations were targeting college conservatives, attempting to convert them to their ideology.[34][59]

Dissolution edit

Casey announced the dissolution of American Identity Movement (AIM) in a statement posted online on November 2, 2020.[73][74]

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

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Identity Evropa j uː ˈ r oʊ p e was an American neo Nazi 8 9 10 and white supremacist 10 11 12 organization established in March 2016 It was rebranded 16 as the American Identity Movement in March 2019 2 17 In November 2020 the group disbanded 5 Leaders and members of Identity Evropa such as former leader Elliot Kline praised Nazi Germany and pushed for what they described as the Nazification of America 9 Identity EvropaAmerican Identity MovementThe Dragon s Eye the group s symbol as Identity Evropa 1 Also known asAmIM 2 AIM IE formerly Leader Founder Nathan Damigo 2016 Aug 2017 Elliot Kline Aug Nov 2017 3 Patrick Casey Nov 2017 Nov 2020 4 FoundationMarch 2016DissolvedNovember 2020 5 CountryUnited StatesMotivesTo seize control of the US government establish a white ethnostate and spread support for white nationalismHeadquartersWashington D C IdeologyNeo Nazism White supremacism White nationalism Affiliated with Alt right IdentitarianismPolitical positionFar rightSizeroughly 800 as of July 2018 6 7 FlagWebsitewww wbr identityevropa wbr com www wbr americanidentitymovement wbr com dead link The white supremacist slogan You will not replace us originated from the group 18 In an attempt to boost its numbers Identity Evropa allied itself with the broader alt right and identitarian movements 11 and the group targeted college campuses and students in particular 19 by distributing slogans on fliers posters and stickers 7 11 12 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC Identity Evropa was one of several groups which contributed to the growth of white supremacism in the United States during the 2010s with the organization being designated by it as an influential hate group during its four year existence 19 20 21 In March 2018 it was reported that the group was seeing steep declines in membership The collapse was similarly seen in other alt right groups and was attributed to a widespread public backlash against white supremacist organizations that occurred after the 2017 Charlottesville rally 22 In March 2019 following a leak of the group s Discord messages published by the non profit left wing media collective Unicorn Riot Patrick Casey the group s leader rebranded 13 14 15 the group with the new name American Identity Movement with an Americana aesthetic despite initially claiming they were unrelated organizations 2 17 Contents 1 History 1 1 Re branding as American Identity Movement 1 2 Fake Antifa Twitter account 2 Views 3 Activities 4 Dissolution 5 See also 6 References 6 1 Notes 6 2 Further readingHistory editThe organization s founder Nathan Damigo d e ˈ m ɪ ɡ oʊ is a self described member of the identitarian movement 21 Damigo grew up in San Jose California 21 and was a member of the U S Marine Corps from 2004 to 2007 11 In November 2007 Damigo robbed a La Mesa California taxicab driver at gunpoint believing that the man was Iraqi 11 23 Damigo was convicted of armed robbery and was incarcerated for a year in county jail and four years in state prison 21 11 He said of the event that it s something that I m certainly not proud of attributing his behavior to major issues after returning from Iraq 21 In prison Damigo began to read works by far right figures including David Duke 21 11 He was also influenced by J Philippe Rushton and Nicholas Wade 11 After being released from prison in 2014 24 Damigo led the National Youth Front 24 11 the youth wing of the American Freedom Party 11 The group was classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC and Anti Defamation League 24 with the SPLC reporting that it was founded by racist Southern California skinheads that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule 11 The National Youth Front later disbanded 24 11 Damigo founded Identity Evropa in March 2016 11 His activities with racist organizations has been disavowed by his father 25 In the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally the leadership position passed onto Elliot Kline aka Eli Mosley 3 The group participated in the planning for the October 19 2017 speech by Richard B Spencer a white supremacist at the University of Florida where Mosley also spoke In addition to Spencer and Mosley the speakers included Mike Enoch a white nationalist blogger 26 27 The event drew about 2 500 protesters vastly outnumbering Spencer s supporters 28 29 Re branding as American Identity Movement edit In March 2019 the non profit left wing media collective Unicorn Riot released more than 770 000 messages leaked from Discord channels related to the group The leaks had been published on the Discord Leaks platform established by Unicorn Riot 2 Within the leaked chat logs members of the groups are discovered to have laid out plans to infiltrate local Republican parties and win public offices plans to influence local media to garner positive coverage as well as plans for rebranding the group s racism and antisemitism with the identitarian label and innocuous sounding slogans such as Make America Beautiful Again The Southern Poverty Law Center commented that the group s rebrands offers further cover to smuggle white nationalist views into mainstream politics and that its attempts to influence media for spreading propaganda and recruiting were often successful Shortly after the leak Patrick Casey said that the group has been retired and announced the formation a new group American Identity Movement The SPLC commented that the new group will continue Identity Evropa s efforts at quietly working to normalize their ideas within the Republican Party 17 After the leak Discord removed Identity Evropa chat channels from the platform The group switched to Slack but was again removed shortly Zelle stated that they would investigate and remove associated accounts after journalists informed the platform that Identity Evropa was using it to raise funds Legal documents filed to the Arizona Corporation Commission under the AIM front group Foundation for American Society was found to have used Identity Evropa s email address 30 nbsp The group s logo after it was re brandedThe leak of Identity Evropa s Discord messages led to journalists and antifascist activists exposing the identities of many of its members 31 Following the leak an investigation by HuffPost reported that seven Identity Evropa members were also currently serving in the U S armed forces and were actively disseminating Identity Evropa materials in their communities According to military spokespersons several of them were being investigated by their military branches 32 33 A Chesterfield County Police officer in Virginia who was working as a school resource officer at a local high school was also identified as a pledge coordinator for Identity Evropa 34 The officer was suspended from his position and the Chesterfield police chief began the process for him to be fired per state law 35 36 37 In April 2019 a teacher at Valley Christian School near San Jose California was placed on paid leave while the school investigated allegations he was a member of the group based on leaked chat logs 38 39 In the same month a master sergeant of the U S Air Force s 50th Space Wing was being investigated by the military as a possible member again based on leaked chat logs The sergeant had allegedly posted photographs of himself applying group stickers holding banners and painting Identity Evropa s logo on an underpass in Colorado Springs 40 41 Also in April a 19 year old National Guard recruit from Chaska Minnesota and a member of the group was recalled from basic training and investigated by the Minnesota National Guard 42 In late April 2019 Unicorn Riot published several audio recordings of the group s weekly meetings These audio recordings reveal that despite Casey s claim that American Identity Movement is not a rebrand of Identity Evropa the two are in fact the same group Matthew Warner the group s second in command admitted in the recordings that Identity Evropa s membership list and dues payments directly carry over to the AIM and reiterated that the group would only accept non Jewish White Americans After the Discord leak the groups has used stricter vetting processes in an attempt to prevent future leaks where members are required to make two Skype calls and one in person meeting before being given sensitive information such as the location of the group s new headquarter in Washington D C After the rebrand Identity Evropa continued its attempts to coordinate its members to edit the group s Wikipedia page into more favorable terms Leaders of the group expressed fear that the existing page for IE would simply be renamed into AIM which would foil the groups s rebranding attempts In the recordings Casey urged members to rebrand their social media accounts as well saying that the groups s new Americana aesthetic would help its members avoid being held accountable for their membership Discussing the group s strategy Casey said in the recordings that the group would appeal to the boomer patriot crowd and would ideally exploit political crises to seize control of the United States government and replacing it with a white only identitarian regime 31 Fake Antifa Twitter account edit In June 2020 during the George Floyd protests Identity Evropa set up a false flag account on Twitter purporting to represent the antifascist movement antifa The account urged violence with comments such as Tonight s the night Comrades Tonight we say Fuck The City and we move into the residential areas the white hoods and we take what s ours According to a spokesperson for Twitter it was not the first time that Identity Evropa had created such fake accounts Before the account was closed down by Twitter it had been cited by United States law enforcement officials as an example of left wing radicals attempting to foment violence citation needed A comment on the account was re posted on Instagram by Donald Trump Jr who commented about antifa They re not even pretending anymore John Cohen a former senior Department of Homeland Security official said Time and time again we have seen public figures media personalities and even government officials amplifying disinformation and extremist rhetoric intended to inspire violence A great step in deescalating the violence currently facing the Nation would be for this to end Facebook also took action against supposed antifa accounts and had prevented the Twitter postings from being distributed on its platform 43 44 45 In 2017 Data amp Society a non profit research organization documented how fake antifa accounts are used to damage the movement writing Various white supremacist groups have consistently tried to damage Antifa s reputation in the media by doxing protesters releasing their personal information or impersonating them online Throughout 2017 right wing manipulators utilized parody to discredit Antifa taking advantage of available Twitter handles and public confusion about the organization and their motives 46 Views editIdentity Evropa is a neo Nazi and white supremacist group 12 11 47 the organization espouses white supremacist 48 and white separatist views 24 49 The group endorses racial segregation 47 It bills itself as a generation of awakened Europeans who oppose those who would defame our history and rich cultural heritage 11 Damigo describes it as an identitarian organization 7 and says that the group s aim is to act as a fifth column over time shifting the edifice of our political establishment in favor of what he describes as pro white interests 50 Identity Evropa s spokesman and director of administration Reinhard Wolff states that Identity Evropa is engaged in a culture war in an effort to create a 90 percent white America 49 The white supremacist slogan You will not replace us originated from the group according to the Anti Defamation League after Damigo and other members of Identity Evropa appeared on camera chanting the words during LaBeouf Ronkko amp Turner s HEWILLNOTDIVIDE US project at New York s Museum of the Moving Image in February 2017 18 Identity Evropa excludes Jews from membership because Damigo regards Jews as non white 7 51 Only those of European non Semitic heritage may join the group 11 Damigo claims that Jewish power Jewish influence has been extraordinarily negative for people of European heritage 7 He has refused to say whether he acknowledges the Holocaust 51 7 The Anti Defamation League has labeled Identity Evropa a white supremacist group 5 52 53 and the Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC which tracks extremist groups in the United States has designated it as a hate group 19 54 55 56 Their campus centric advertising posters depict photos of classical Greek sculptures of men overlaid with various short slogans which urge whites to embrace cultural elitism Mark Potok a senior fellow at the SPLC states Identity Evropa is merely the latest iteration of the white supremacist movement Although you might think based on their propaganda that they re all about Plato and Aristotle and Socrates in fact they re merely a gussied up version of the Klan 50 Anna North writing in The New York Times states that the group promotes racism under the guise of white racial pride and cultural identity for those who are of European ancestry 57 Activities editIn December 2016 the group had roughly 200 members 24 In a February 2017 interview Damigo claimed a membership of 300 7 The group has distributed fliers on dozens of college campuses including the University of Virginia Virginia Tech Lynchburg College Liberty University 58 University of Massachusetts Amherst UCLA San Diego State University University of California San Diego Penn State Ohio State and the University of Washington 12 7 54 59 60 According to an ADL count Identity Evropa was by far the most active white supremacist group on college campuses in 2017 responsible for 158 of the 346 incidents nationwide of the posting of white supremacist propaganda fliers 61 These fliers typically show photos of classical and neoclassical sculpture According to art critic Ben Davis the random use of dissimilar photos demonstrates a poor understanding of European culture and art history 62 At Ohio State the group has considered seeking recognized student organization status 52 The group s ProjectSiege aims to siege college campuses with literature 52 in order to combat what Damigo describes as a false anti white narrative by professors whom Damigo calls charlatans 50 63 In late 2016 Damigo and Identity Evropa members traveled to Washington D C for a post election conference hosted by the white supremacist National Policy Institute at which keynote speaker Richard B Spencer and several other attendees rendered a Nazi salute 24 During the 2017 Berkeley protests Damigo punched a young woman captured on video that subsequently went viral 64 Footage showed Damigo punching the woman in the face then running away into the crowd 48 The attack prompted calls for Damigo s arrest or expulsion from Cal State Stanislaus where he is a student the university subsequently said that it was investigating Damigo 48 Damigo has been identified as a leader in the August 2017 Unite the Right rally A news source that has interviewed him states that Damigo has made these rallies a key driver for recruiting new members of the group 65 Additionally Peter Cvjetanovic one of the members of Identity Evropa was dubbed as the angry torch guy in the Unite the Right rally 66 On July 28 2018 around 45 members of Identity Evropa some dressed as construction workers demonstrated outside the Mexican consulate in Manhattan New York City holding large letters that spelled out Build the Wall The government of Mexico said it had written a diplomatic note to the State Department protesting the incident 67 Later that day a group of several dozen Identity Evropa members hung a banner in Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan The banner which said Stop the invasion end immigration overlooked the Henry Hudson Parkway The response of the Washington Heights and Inwood communities was to hold a vigil against hate at the same site on July 31 68 69 On February 9 2019 eleven Identity Evropa members went to the University of Utah s Block U carrying colored smoke flares and a banner that read End immigration Patrick Casey stated that the action was in response to the University s condemning of the organization earlier in the year after it had posted stickers around the campus Police were called but the members left before they arrived 70 On April 27 2019 hours after the Poway synagogue shooting in California around ten members of Identity Evropa disrupted a book discussion event at the Politics and Prose bookstore at Washington D C The book discussed at the event was Dying of Whiteness How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America s Heartland by Jonathan Metzl which discusses how working class white Americans who were attracted by the Trump administration s promises end up having a greater risk of illness and a shorter life expectancy as a result of its policies Members of the group interrupted Metzl s speech using a bullhorn said You would have the white working class trade their homeland for handouts But we as nationalists and identitarians can offer the workers of this country a homeland their birthright in addition to health care good jobs and so forth and chanted This land is our land while walking through the bookstore before exiting ten minutes later Washington D C mayor Muriel Bowser condemned the Poway shooting and the bookstore disruption in a tweet denouncing the former as horrific act of hate and antisemitism and the latter as ignorance and hate 71 72 The 2019 leaks also disclosed that the organizations were targeting college conservatives attempting to convert them to their ideology 34 59 Dissolution editCasey announced the dissolution of American Identity Movement AIM in a statement posted online on November 2 2020 73 74 See also editChristian Identity Ghost skin Neo nationalism White genocide conspiracy theoryReferences editNotes edit Pearce Matt August 14 2017 A guide to some of the far right symbols seen in Charlottesville LA Times Archived from the original on March 18 2018 Retrieved March 17 2018 a b c d Schiano Chris Martinez Freddy 2019 03 06 Neo Nazi Hipsters Identity Evropa Exposed In Discord Chat Leak UNICORN RIOT Archived from the original on 2019 03 19 Retrieved 2019 03 19 a b Staff September 26 2017 Identity Evropa and Arktos Media Likely Bedfellows Hatewatch Southern Poverty Law Center Archived from the original on March 27 2019 Retrieved March 26 2019 Staff December 5 2017 Patrick Casey Identity Evropa s new leader wants to ditch the alt right for identitarianism another euphemism for white nationalism Hatewatch Southern Poverty Law Center Archived from the original on March 25 2019 Retrieved March 26 2019 a b c Identity Evropa American Identity Movement Anti Defamation League Archived from the original on July 15 2021 Retrieved July 16 2021 White nationalist leader is plotting to take over the GOP NBC News US 2018 10 17 Archived from the original on 2018 10 17 Retrieved 2018 10 17 a b c d e f g h Shukman Harry February 15 2017 Meet the neo Nazi coming to put up white pride posters on your campus The Tab US Archived from the original on April 22 2017 Retrieved April 17 2017 Meet the neo Nazi coming to put up white pride posters on your campus The Tab US 2017 02 15 Archived from the original on 2019 08 03 Retrieved 2018 01 16 a b Kelley Brendan 27 November 2017 Identity Evropa s Controversial New Ringleader Southern Poverty Law Center Archived from the original on 7 May 2020 Retrieved 13 April 2023 But not that long ago in spring of this year Mosley a k a Kline wasn t shy about the bigotry in his polemics whatsoever In a report for Andrew Anglin s Daily Stormer about a pro Trump demonstration in March Mosley wrote In Philadelphia the city of faggotry love played out an alliance between the Nazi led marchers and local police departments against their oven dodging enemies Spoiler the Nazis won bigly He continues This is a sign that we have moved into a new era in the Nazification of America Normie Trump supporters are becoming racially aware and Jew Wise a b Gardner Elena 2018 02 24 White supremacist decals found at Gonzaga University KXLY Archived from the original on 2019 03 27 Retrieved 2018 02 26 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Branson Potts Hailey 2016 12 07 In diverse California a young white supremacist seeks to convert fellow college students Los Angeles Times ISSN 0458 3035 Archived from the original on 2021 11 10 Retrieved 2017 04 17 a b c d Dugan Arnett March 31 2017 For white nationalists college campuses are a new recruiting ground Boston Globe Archived from the original on March 1 2020 Retrieved April 17 2017 a b Cheney Rice Zak 20 March 2019 Racism Is Good at Hiding Just Ask This White Nationalist Police Officer Intelligencer New York Magazine Archived 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original on 23 October 2017 Retrieved 24 October 2017 Go home racist Richard Spencer shouted down at University of Florida speech Archived 2023 02 13 at the Wayback Machine USA Today Richard Spencer Shouted Down in Florida Cuts his Speech Short Archived 2022 12 05 at the Wayback Machine Newsweek Behind scenes logistics at protest let officers control chaos Archived 2021 10 09 at the Wayback Machine The Gainesville Sun Schiano Chris 2019 04 11 Identity Evropa Struggles To Gain Footing After Rebranding as Patriot Group UNICORN RIOT Archived from the original on 2019 04 28 Retrieved 2019 05 07 a b Schiano Chris 2019 04 27 Americans of European Heritage Exclusively Identity Evropa Front Group Meetings Leaked Unicorn Riot Archived from the original on 2019 04 28 Retrieved 2019 04 28 Mathias Christopher March 17 2019 Exclusive 7 U S Military Members Identified As Part Of White Nationalist Group HuffPost Archived from the original on December 17 2019 Retrieved March 23 2019 Pritha Paul March 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