White supremacists step up recruiting on college campuses, group says
Source: MSN/Miami Herald
MIAMI — White supremacist groups are stepping up efforts to recruit students on college campuses, according to a report published Monday by the Anti-Defamation League.
Since the academic year started in September, white supremacist groups have targeted college campuses 104 times with anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and racist fliers, posters and stickers, the report found. The incidents took place in 25 states.
This level of recruitment on college campuses is unprecedented, said Oren Segal, the director of the Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism and one of the authors of the report. "White supremacists have on occasion tried to attract younger people, but not on the level we've seen at this time and in the diversity of ways," he said. "They view young people as bringing energy to a movement. What they want to do is try to recruit a new generation of people to carry on their messages to the future."
Nationwide, the recruitment efforts have picked up since January, with 63 of the 104 incidents occurring over the past two months. While most involve fliers and posters, white supremacist groups have also made on-campus appearances and speeches. Other incidents documented in the report include a vendor selling shirts and albums with swastika symbols on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles and the distribution of Adolf Hitler Valentine's Day cards reading "my love 4 u burns like 6,000 jews," at Central Michigan University in Pleasant, Mich. One of the recruitment efforts occurred on Florida Atlantic University's Boca Raton campus in mid-February, according to the report. Fliers promoting a white supremacist group called Identity Evropa were posted in various locations around campus, reading "Our destiny is ours, serve your people."
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