Identity Evropa

Identity Evropa (IE)In spite of its name, the organization is not based in Europe, nor is its founder European by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, they miss much more important facts than that. was a pretentiously-named identitarian white nationalist group based in the United States that was founded by Nathan Benjamin Damigo in 2016.Nathan Benjamin Damigo Southern Poverty Law Center Damigo (b. May 12, 1986 as Nathan Lodge) is a former US Marine with an White supremacist who created stir at Stanislaus State seen punching woman at Berkeley protest by Brian Clark (April 15, 2017 11:43 PM) Modesto Bee. and who served 5 years in jail/prison on a felony charge for armed robbery of a taxi driver whom he erroneously thought was an Iraqi immigrant.Alternate Reality: Growing acceptance of white nationalism in Trump's America by Alexis Terrazas & Atticus Morris (December 15, 2016) El Tecolote.In diverse California, a young white supremacist seeks to convert fellow college students by Hailey Branson-Potts (December 7, 2016, 6:00 AM) The Los Angeles Times. He was also known as "Fashy Haircut" for his Hitler Youth-style haircut on Twitter before being banned."Fashy Haircut" or @NathanDamigo on Twitter Damigo was one of the organizers of the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left three people dead.Californian Who Helped Lead Charlottesville Protests Used Berkeley as a Test Run by John Sepulvado and Bert Johnson (August 14, 2017) KQED. Previous to Charlottesville, Damigo also organized rallies that resulted in violence in Berkeley, California, including one where he sucker-punched a woman holding a camera.Viral Video Shows Student White Supremacist Sucker-Punch Berkeley Anti-Trump Protester by Christin Ayers (April 16, 2017 7:31 PM) CBS. IE membership is not just entirely white, as one would expect, but also overwhelmingly male (2 of the 64 members appear female in their group photo).Identity Evropa (archived from November 20, 2021).
IE was a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.Active Hate Groups 2016 Southern Poverty Law Center IE was known particularly for targeting college campuses for recruitment,White Supremacists on Campus: Unprecedented Recruitment Efforts Underway (March 7, 2017) Anti-Defamation LeagueMeet the neo-Nazi coming to put up white pride posters on your campus: Identity Evropa is a white supremacist student organization by Harry Shukman (February 15, 2017) The Tab US though its membership was believed to be relatively small (200-300).White nationalist leader not from Sonora by Alex MacLean (Dec. 14, 2016 at 09:51PM) San Diego Union Democrat.
In 2019, following an exposé by Unicorn Riot revealing that they were carrying out an entryist campaign within the Republican Party on Discord and later Slack, IE leader Patrick Casey formally rebranded Identity Evropa into the American Identity Movement (AIM), not to be confused with the American Indian Movement). It was not unlike how former members of Vanguard America rebranded as the Patriot Front, complete with the same American patriotic imagery as that group (i.e. the American flag, Lady Columbia, and the eagle) and a more America-centric focus in contrast to IE's usage of mostly Greco-Roman and Renaissance imagery and fixation on Europe. Regardless, the American Identity Movement/AIM was pretty much the same group with a new coat of paint, doing the same flyering and having most of the same leadership and members as the formally-defunct Identity Evropa.Hatewatch Staff. "White Nationalist Group Identity Evropa Rebrands Following Private Chat Leaks, Launches 'American Identity Movement'." Southern Poverty Law Center, 12 March 2019 (recovered 14 March 2019).
==Views==
*IE was opposed to anyone with progressive ideas, and refers to them with the snarl word of Cultural Marxism."Education" - Identity Evropa. Archived.
*IE was a racialist organization that tries to hide it under the guise of "human biodiversity".
*IE claimed to be censored because some companies have exercised their freedom to disassociate themselves with racist organizations."The Great Shuttening" - Identity Evropa. Archived.
*IE was opposed to (non-white) immigration into the US.
*IE did not allow Jews or other Semitic people to being members, stating that its membership is open only to (in their own words) non-Semitic Europeans (read: whites)."Join Us" Identity Evropa Damigo has voiced anti-Semitic statements. While he has refused to state an opinion regarding the Holocaust and its denial,, he has alluded to the International Jewish conspiracy.
==Elliott Kline==
Elliott Kline (a.k.a. Elliot Kline or Eli Mosley or JudenjagerLeading US Neo-Nazi Turns Out To Be A Military Faker by Adam Weinstein (Feb 5, 2018 6:56 PM EST) Task & Purpose. — 'Jew hunter') took over leadership of the organization on August 27, 2017.A Renewal of Leadership by Nathan Damigo (August 27, 2017) Identity Evropa (archived from 24 Oct 2017 22:17:06 UTC).Identity Evropa and Arktos Media — Likely Bedfellows (September 26, 2017) Southern Poverty Law Center. His alias "Eli Mosley" is a tribute to the pro-Nazi British fascist leader Oswald Mosley. He was supposedly a Proud Boy until December 2016.Elliott Kline. Go to the ProudBoys page hit info it's all there. He had car problems on way to White Nationalist gathering today by PROUDCAT‏ (9:06 PM - 20 Nov 2016) Twitter (archived from 24 Nov 2017 20:21:24 UTC).Elliott Kline (July 8, 2017) One People's Project. Kline was the IE public representative for the Unite the Right rally, and also served as Richard Spencer's right-hand man in 2017.Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve (2024) .
Kline has been regarded as a pathological liar, and has been caught engaging in stolen valor (claiming that he served in Iraq, but only serving in the National Guard in Pennsylvania).
Following the Unite the Right rally in 2017, Kline was convicted of civil conspiracy and and engaging in race-based harassment or violence. During Kline's trial, former IE member Samantha Froelich testified that Kline told her that after the Racial Holy War, he wanted Spencer put against a wall and shot dead, reminiscent of Hitler's Night of the Long Knives.
The rally also led to the implosion of the alt-right as a whole, with for example Matthew Heimbach of the Traditionalist Worker Party thinking that Kline was exemplary of the alt-right trolling itself into thinking it was competent.
==Membership==
IE tried to present a superficially clean appearance: no visible tattoos, no swastikas and no felony convictions as well as women being allowed to join the organization and a secular approach to religion (such as Christianity and European neopaganism). This is ironic because Damigo himself is a felon.
Known members:
==See also==
*Classical antiquity — not what IE thinks it was
*Richard Spencer — fellow traveler
==External links==
*Identity Evropa
*Fashy Haircut Nathan Damigo on Twitter (suspended)
*American Identity Movement, official website
*AIM_America American Identity Movement on Twitter
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