White Supremacist Literature Surfaces In Brookline

BROOKLINE, PA - Less than two weeks after 11 people were murdered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, white supremacist literature has surfaced on lampposts and traffic boxes in Brookline.

WPXI-TV reported that the police are aware of the the literature, which purportedly names the group Patriot Front.

According to the Anti-Defamation League .Patriot Front is a white supremacist group whose members maintain that their ancestors conquered America and bequeathed it solely to them. The group espouses t espouses racism, anti-Semitism and intolerance under the guise of preserving the “ethnic and cultural origins” of their European ancestors.

Two years ago, the Las Palmas Mexican grocery on Brookline Boulevard was the target of spray painted messages on an outside wall of the store that included the words, “Illegal Trespassers,” “Lairs,” and “America Haters.”

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