Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism In Warren County In 2019: Report

WARREN COUNTY, NJ - A new report shines a light on potential incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism in New Jersey this past year, and there were some in Warren County.

In 2019, there were 216 incidents of hate, extremism and anti-Semitism in 112 towns in New Jersey, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

In Warren County, there were two reported incidents.

• Hackettstown, Jan. 10, 2019: Identity Evropa, an alt right group, distributed fliers featuring their group logo.
• Mansfield Township, June 23, 2019: New Jersey European Heritage Association, an alt right group, distributed propaganda that that read: ""Remember the USS Liberty! 1967 attack against America," "Reclaim your nation reclaim your heritage," "Keep America American," and "Stop the third world invasion of America!"

Overall, the figure for 2019 decreased from the 452 incidents reported in New Jersey during 2018. But the incidents were no less concerning, the report says.

In December,six people were killed in Jersey City in what Gov. Phil Murphy called a "hate-crime " and an act of domestic terrorism. One of the groups that's predominately mentioned in the report is the New Jersey European Heritage Association (NJEHA), which the ADL says is a small, New Jersey-based white supremacist group. "NJEHA espouses racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance under the guise of 'saving' white European peoples from purported imminent extinction," the report said.

The list follows a similar report published last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which said 18 hate organizations are based in towns throughout the Garden State, and the number is rising.

The occurrences in New Jersey identified in the ADL report were among the 4,015 examples of extremist and anti-Semitic incidents that happened nationwide in 2019. The figure reported for 2019 is up almost 32 percent from the 3,052 incidents reported in 2018, according to the ADL.

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