That conviction and sentence were overturned in 2014 for improper venue issues. A few months later, in two subsequent waves of fliering, Auernheimer depicted Jews being killed and raped, and called for supporting and defending acts of violence against anyone he perceived as “anti-white.” Later that same year, Auernheimer also participated in a harassment campaign against Jewish journalists on Twitter.Īuernheimer has referred to himself as a “white nationalist hacktivist,” and previously was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison, where he served slightly more than a year on federal charges related to computer hacking. The fliers blamed Jews for destroying the country “through mass immigration and degeneracy” and advertised the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer. In 2016, Auernheimer claimed credit for sending white supremacist fliers to thousands of networked printers on college campuses around the country. The Center on Extremism examined screenshots of the individual behind both incidents and believes him to be Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, a known white supremacist and hacker.Īs documented by ADL, Auernheimer-also known as “weev”-has a long history of publicly expressing his antisemitic and racist views and exploiting technology in order to gain attention. A day later, a similar incident occurred in California when someone disrupted an online class hosted by a JCC (Jewish Community Center) the perpetrator launched into a minutes-long, profanity-laced, antisemitic rant and removed his shirt to display a swastika tattoo on his chest.

On March 24, 2020, a white supremacist interrupted a webinar about antisemitism hosted by a Massachusetts Jewish student group by pulling his shirt collar down to reveal a swastika tattoo on his chest.

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