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Hate Group Being Investigated on Staten Island

An alleged white supremacist group that has placed well-over 50 fliers and stickers across multiple neighborhoods on Staten Island over the past seven months is under investigation by the NYPD and District Attorney Michael E. McMahon, the Advance has learned.

The group, the New Jersey European Heritage Association (NJEHA) is a small, New Jersey-based white supremacist group that espouses racism, antisemitism and intolerance under the guise of ‘saving’ white European peoples from purported imminent extinction.

NJEHA’s main form of exposure is through the distribution of fliers and stickers, which the group encourages followers to print out and place in their neighborhoods.

The fliers, which commonly refer to an unsubstantiated conspiracy that white people are facing extinction, urge viewers to “Reclaim your nation” and “Reclaim your heritage.”

The group’s website reads: “The non-Whites who will come to replace us will recreate the failed societies they have fled. Our nations will be plagued with high levels of violence, poverty, corruption and instability.”

While the Advance reported on the group’s presence on the borough on two separate instances in New Dorp, an investigation of Gab — a lightly-censored social media site the group primarily uses — revealed that fliers and other propaganda were placed at dozens of locations on the borough, from Tottenville to Mariners Harbor.

On a near-daily basis, the group posts locations on Gab where its posters and stickers have been placed. A heavy concentration of posts have been made on the East Shore of Staten Island, including one set of instances as recently as mid-January.

One poster propelling an unfounded anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, which has since been removed, was found by a reporter approximately 24 hours after it was posted at the corner of New Dorp Lane and New Dorp Plaza last Tuesday.