Identity Evropa American Identity Movement | |
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![]() The Dragon's Eye, the group's symbol as Identity Evropa[1] | |
Also known as | AmIM,[2] AIM, IE (formerly) |
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Foundation | March 2016 |
Dissolved | November 2020[5] |
Country | United States |
Motives | To seize control of the US government, establish a white ethnostate, and spread support for white nationalism |
Headquarters | Washington D.C. |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-right |
Size | roughly 800 as of July 2018[6][7] |
Flag | ![]() |
Website | www www |
Identity Evropa (/juːˈroʊpə/) was an American far-right, neo-Nazi, neo-Fascist,[8][9][10] and white supremacist[10][11][12] organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded[16] as the American Identity Movement in March 2019.[2][17] In November 2020, the group disbanded.[5] Leaders and members of Identity Evropa, such as former leader Elliot Kline, praised Nazi Germany and pushed for what they described as the "Nazification of America".[9]
The white supremacist slogan "You will not replace us" originated from the group.[18] In an attempt to boost its numbers, Identity Evropa allied itself with the broader alt-right and identitarian movements[11] and the group targeted college campuses and students in particular[19] by distributing slogans on fliers, posters, and stickers.[7][11][12] According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Identity Evropa was one of several groups which contributed to the growth of white supremacism in the United States during the 2010s, with the organization being designated by it as an influential hate group during its four-year existence.[19][20][21]
In March 2018, it was reported that the group was seeing steep declines in membership. The collapse was similarly seen in other alt-right groups, and was attributed to a widespread public backlash against white supremacist organizations that occurred after the 2017 Charlottesville rally.[22] In March 2019, following a leak of the group's Discord messages published by the non-profit left-wing media collective Unicorn Riot, Patrick Casey, the group's leader, rebranded[13][14][15] the group with the new name "American Identity Movement" with an Americana aesthetic, despite initially claiming they were unrelated organizations.[2][17]
The Identity Evropa organization distances itself from „Les Identitaires“, the identitarian nationalist movement that emerged in France in 2003.[23] While the latter is a French movement that also includes Far-right approaches and Nationalism, their focus is on French Nationalism and, in addition to anti-Islam their ideology consists of Anti-Americanism, as they see the United States and Islam as the two primary imperialistic threats to Europe.[24][25]
The organization's founder, Nathan Damigo (/dəˈmɪɡoʊ/), is a self-described member of the identitarian movement.[21] Damigo grew up in San Jose, California,[21] and was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 2004 to 2007.[11] In November 2007, Damigo robbed a La Mesa, California, taxicab driver at gunpoint, believing that the man was Iraqi.[11][26] Damigo was convicted of armed robbery and was incarcerated for a year in county jail and four years in state prison.[21][11] He said of the event that "it's something that I'm certainly not proud of," attributing his behavior to "major issues" after returning from Iraq.[21]
In prison, Damigo began to read works by far-right figures, including David Duke.[21][11] He was also influenced by J. Philippe Rushton and Nicholas Wade.[11] After being released from prison in 2014,[27] Damigo led the National Youth Front,[27][11] the youth wing of the American Freedom Party.[11] The group was classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League,[27] with the SPLC reporting that it was founded by "racist Southern California skinheads that aims to deport immigrants and return the United States to white rule."[11] The National Youth Front later disbanded.[27][11] Damigo founded Identity Evropa in March 2016.[11] His activities with "racist organizations" has been disavowed by his father.[28]
In the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally, the leadership position passed onto Elliot Kline, aka Eli Mosley.[3] The group participated in the planning for the October 19, 2017 speech by Richard B. Spencer, a white supremacist, at the University of Florida, where Mosley also spoke. In addition to Spencer and Mosley, the speakers included Mike Enoch, a white nationalist blogger.[29][30] The event drew about 2,500 protesters, vastly outnumbering Spencer's supporters.[31][32]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).But not that long ago, in spring of this year, Mosley a/k/a Kline wasn't shy about the bigotry in his polemics whatsoever. In a report for Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer about a pro-Trump demonstration in March, Mosley wrote, "In Philadelphia, the city of faggotry love, played out an alliance between the Nazi led marchers and local police departments against their oven-dodging enemies… Spoiler, the Nazis won bigly." He continues, "This is a sign that we have moved into a new era in the Nazification of America. Normie Trump supporters are becoming racially aware and Jew Wise."
...an organizer for Identity Evropa, a white nationalist group also known as the American Identity Movement.
...and another white nationalist group, Identity Evropa — recently rebranded as the American Identity Movement.
The stickers had the name of the American Identity Movement, which is a rebranding of Identity Europa, a well-known white nationalist and neo-Nazi group.
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).adl_2017-06-09
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).And the SPLC reported that its team monitoring far-right hate groups had seen recent signs on extremist chat boards that members of the racist US group Identity Evropa have been leaving in significant numbers.
During a psychological evaluation conducted for the court as part of the criminal case, Damigo said he attacked the cab driver, Changiz Ezzatyar, because he mistook him for an Iraqi.
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