Disturbing flyers recruiting neo-Nazis surface in Bondi, Sydney

Flyers trying to recruit peopleto a white supremacist group have shown up in letterboxes at Bondi Beach. WARNING: Disturbing language.

WARNING: Disturbing language

Flyers promoting a neo-Nazi group that believes “white Australians” face racial extinction have emerged in Bondi.

The Anti-Defamation Commission, a Melbourne-based non-profit organisation, shared pictures of the flyers with news.com.au. It said they were put in letterboxes along Rickard Ave, Bondi Beach last week.

“We have great things planned to secure our future in this land. In the meantime we cannot achieve any of our goals without you,” the flyer from the European Australia Movement read.

“Get yourself involved and join your local network. Be prepared to train, get outdoors and sacrifice some of your personal time for a higher purpose. Blood and honour.”

A QR code attached, with the caption “if white scan”, takes people to the website of Australia’s largest white supremacist group, the National Socialist Network.

“We are working to secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” the website reads.

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A QR code directed people to the National Socialist Network website.

The group is recruiting people to further its white supremacist agenda.

The National Socialist Network states members of the group must be “white Australian of non-Semitic, European descent” and only accepts people with “an able body and an able mind”.

It is a group that has praised terrorist mass murderer Brenton Tarrant, the Australian who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

NSW Police said it was aware of the flyers and was “conducting inquiries”.

“While we won’t comment on specific individuals, or groups at this time, the community can be assured we continue to monitor activities and rhetoric and will take action where appropriate,” a spokeswoman said.

Some residents in Adelaide reported flyers from the European Australia Movement in their letterboxes in June.

The flyer headlined “Calling all white Australians” said the group was “building a network of white Australians across every city, suburb and town”.

It then had the same message seen on the flyers in Bondi.

Flyers found in Adelaide letterboxes in June.

Images shared to encrypted social media platform Telegram, which have since been removed, showed a group of men posing in front of the Australian flag in the group’s South Australia headquarters and at Port Adelaide, according to the Adelaide Advertiser.

One caption includes a quote from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, while another refers to claims of “the lying Jews in the media”.

Other posts show the group sharing a dinner to celebrate Hitler’s birthday and three men doing a Nazi salute.

Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dr Dvir Abramovich told news.com.au anti-Semitism was on the rise in Australia and demanded a response from police and state governments.

“Imagine the immense pain a Holocaust survivor or his children would feel upon seeing such vile flyers,” he said.

“The bottom line is that we can’t rest easy while these homegrown domestic terrorists-in-waiting, ticking time bombs, are on a recruitment drive of young white men and women to their Aryan cause,” Dr Abramovich said.

“Where far-right extremists gather, promising a racial war, physical violence is usually not far behind, and each one of us is a potential target.

“There is a direct link between radicalisation and lethal attacks, and at any point, this ugly rhetoric can cross the line into real-world killing because one of their young members, who is absorbing this poison, may come to believe that any action is justified to save the white race from their ‘enemies’.

“We do not need to wait for a Christchurch-like massacre in Sydney to designate these movements as terrorist organisations.”

The National Socialist Network claims on its website it “will never use or advocate violence or terrorism to further our movement”.