Verbatim: White nationalist stickers posted at PFW
The Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne issued the following Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021 –
Today, 23 January 2021, the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (http://pfw.edu/ihgs) received evidence that Patriot Front, a white supremacist group espousing racism and anti- Semitism, has plastered the Purdue University Fort Wayne campus with stickers meant to promote its racist and anti-Semitic website. According to the ADL, Patriot Front regularly targets college campuses around the country promoting anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim hate propaganda (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/patriot-front).
The Institute already has reported this incident of hate and bias both to Purdue University and to the ADL. In the meantime, we call upon the administrative leadership of the Fort Wayne campus and the Purdue Board of Trustees to condemn the stickers as low-level vandalism meant to intimidat
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