Peru’s Jewish community has urged authorities to stop the activities of a nascent neo-Nazi party headed by an anti-Semitic Amerindian.
According to The Guardian, the Jewish
community of Peru said in a statement that it rejected the “open
expression of anti-Semitic racism” of the Andean Peru National Socialism
Movement — a far-right group that is currently attempting to gather
enough signatures to be registered as a political party.
Authorities needed to “take the necessary
measures to halt the incitement to racial and religious hatred,” the
statement reportedly said.
The Lima-based La Republica daily reported
this month that the group had six members and that its founder, Martín
Quispe Mayta, has called for the expulsion of the country’s Jewish
community.
According to Mayta, the group has 70 volunteer
activists. He said he founded the movement after reading Adolf Hitler’s
book, “Mein Kampf,” in his youth, and Henry Ford’s “The International
Jew.”
“Hitler turned against the real enemy, the
Jews, who killed millions and who poisoned millions,” Mayta is quoted as
telling La Republica. He posed for the paper with five other party
activists while wearing a Nazi uniform.
Asked about the Holocaust, he reportedly called it “a lie of the Jewish press” and added, “The gas chambers never existed.”
Fewer than 5,000 Jews live in the country, according to the Guardian.
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