NEW YORK — A white supremacist youth group that recruits members under 18 held a meetup in central New Jersey with members of the state’s Active Club chapter and the neo-Nazi group Northeast Action, the Counter Extremism Project said Monday.
The New York-based nonprofit, which tracks extremist activity online, said a United Youth Club chapter representing New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania announced the gathering on Oct. 25. Photos the group posted showed 13 people hiking and practicing boxing, according to the report. The group did not identify the location more specifically than central New Jersey.
The Counter Extremism Project describes the Active Club movement as white supremacist. Its weekly report said chapters in the U.S. and Europe use combat sports as a recruiting draw.
On Oct. 27, the report said, the movement’s Texas chapter promoted two members who won gold medals at a public Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament in Duncanville, Texas, on Oct. 18, and pitched the wins as a reason to join, with a Telegram contact for vetting. Chapters in France, Germany and Sweden posted fight-night videos, sold supporter T-shirts and praised the neo-Nazi skinhead gang the Hammerskins, the group said.
The report also said the Aryan Freedom Network posted a 37-minute recruitment video on Telegram on Oct. 25 featuring speeches by its national leader, Dalton Henry Stout, and regional leaders. According to the Counter Extremism Project, the speakers named Jews, African Americans, Latinos, South Asians, the left and LGBTQ+ people as enemies.
The same report tracked jihadist propaganda. A media group linked to the Islamic State group’s Pakistan province launched a multilingual propaganda website called Al-Karrar Network on Oct. 27, hosted on the Tor network and soliciting donations in the cryptocurrency Monero, the group said. On Oct. 30, the same network released the second issue of Invade, a 61-page English-language web magazine that the report said calls for lone-actor attacks.
The Counter Extremism Project also said a pro-al-Qaida account posted a directory of 17 issues of Inspire, an al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula magazine published from 2010 to 2017 that contains bomb-making instructions. One issue analyzed the Sept. 17, 2016, Chelsea bombing in New York, the group noted.
Between Oct. 25 and Oct. 31, the Islamic State group claimed 17 attacks, all in sub-Saharan Africa, including 10 in Nigeria, according to the report.
The Counter Extremism Project describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan international policy organization working to combat extremist ideologies.
This report is based on a press release from the Counter Extremism Project.
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