White activism for September 2020
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:02 am
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Jews. It's always about them even when they're not mentioned in a poster. Do they ever stop complaining? Do they ever stop imposing on others to do all their fighting for them? Are any of them ever happy?ASU investigating after Nazi posters found on Tempe campus again
Brooke Newman
Arizona Republic
One of several anti-Semitic posters found on the ASU Tempe campus on Aug. 30, 2020. Posters reading "Hitler was right," "unity of our blood," and other anti-Semitic comments were found on the Arizona State University Tempe campus for the second time in less than a year.
Student leaders of the Jewish community discovered the posters at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to Danny Goldberg, a second-year law student at ASU.
Debbie Yunker Kail, executive director of the Hillel Jewish Student Center at ASU, helped students report the incident.
As soon as the university was notified, campus police removed the posters, an ASU spokesperson said.
"I greatly appreciate ASU removing the posters, but the Jewish community is being singled out in a disgusting and vile manner, and it's very important for ASU to condemn these statements," Goldberg said.
ASU said in a written statement that the university is investigating.
"Ensuring the safety and security of our students is a top priority, and the university undertakes extensive efforts to ensure student safety is not compromised. ASU is a community that values diversity, tolerance, respect and inclusion. We support open debate and honest disagreements, but not hateful rhetoric," the statement said.
Flyers that appeared on campus last November and ones found Sunday both bore the name Folksfront.
"The same URL is listed in both instances, so I believe this is a singular issue where one group is trying to intimidate and disrupt the safety and the well-being of the ASU community," Goldberg said.
The Folksfront website says "the Folkish Resistance Movement" was formed in February, follows Adolf Hitler and lists demands including "Only White people(s) of good stock may be members of the nation."
Yunker Kail also expressed concerns that these acts are being committed by an outside group that is unaffiliated with the university.
On its website, Folksfront claims it hung a banner reading "Hitler was right" in Queen Creek earlier this month.
Rabbi Shmuel Tiechtel with ASU's Chabad Jewish Student Center said, "We are very concerned about these hateful anti-Jewish flyers on campus. We were shocked to see such open displays of bigotry."
Members of Hillel and Chabad have expressed that the ASU community is not one to tolerate hate but instead one to promote love and mutual respect. Both also expressed that ASU has been very willing to help the Jewish communities on campus.
Gillies said that this is likely an outside organization, as many of these groups' strategies are to recruit on college campuses.
"I understand that universities are meant to be a market place of ideas; however, I don't believe that this type of speech is representative of ASU, and I would like to see a strong statement from the president's office that condemns it," Gillies said.
Reach breaking news reporter Brooke Newman at [email protected] or on Twitter @brookerae17.