Controversial ‘hey fascist! Catch!’ Leaflets arouse indignation in Georgetown

Washington, DC – The students of the University of Georgetown who spoke to Fox News Digital said they were afraid and disappointed when they saw flyers published on Wednesday on the campus by an extreme left group which referred with approval the killer of Charlie Kirk.

“My first emotion was fear,” said Jordan Van Slingerland, a major major in international politics. “What happened to Charlie Kirk struck me and, of course, many of my friends on this very hard campus, and see the text that was on the assassin’s ball that had taken his life, was certainly a little frightening.”

While a student told Fox News Digital that the flyers had only been displayed for about 30 minutes on Wednesday before being withdrawn, several other leaflets were published on the campus the following night, including a photo of the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, who was murdered three weeks ago, with the slogans: “Follow your chief” and “Rest in P-SS Charlie”. The video obtained by Fox News Digital showed a police officer from the University of Georgetown removing the flyers on Thursday.

“It made me feel very upset,” said Elizabeth Oliver, a person who aged Georgetown and president of the university “Right to Life” group at Fox News Digital in an interview. “Over the years, I have heard a lot of hateful things against the conservatives, and it was so obvious and on the face of people that it made me very worried about my other friends who share my similar beliefs.”

The left -wing rifle club linked to the recruitment of violence on the Georgetown campus, echoing the assassination of Kirk: “Fascist hey! CATCH!’

The students of the University of Georgetown react to the “fascist hey! Catch!” Flyer posted on the campus. (Fox News Digital)

The leaflet was published by the John Brown Gun Club, that the Center for counter extremism labeled an “far left group”. They contained the sentence: “Fascist hey! Catch!” – An apparent wink to the slogan, according to the authorities, was engraved in a shell case found near the locking rifle that would have been used to assassinate Kirk at Utah Valley University.

The group bears the name of the abolitionist of militant slaves John Brown and the Flyer also described their organization as “the only political group which celebrates when the Nazis die” on the flyers.

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Matthew Cosenza, a first -year student from Georgetown, said the Flyer drew his attention when he became viral on Wednesday.

“I was really not surprised to see equipment like that on campus,” said Cosenza. “I saw other documents that compare Trump to Hitler, the conservatives with fascists and the conservative movement on the campus in Nazism.”

The senior Rowan O’Sullivan was not surprised either.

“Certainly, it’s uncontrollable,” said O’Sullivan. “But I think it is quite obvious that whatever the version of leftism, no matter what you want to call this, I think, to a certain extent, a window for thirst for blood at the end, and you saw this with the reactions to the death of Charlie Kirk.”

As a Director of Affairs of the Campus of the Republican Section of the College of Georgetown and member of the board of directors of conservative groups on campus, Van Slingerland said that he had been threatened with political violence since President Donald Trump was elected.

“The climate has certainly been very hostile here for conservative students since then,” said Van Slingerland.

After Shae Mcinnis, a second -year student in Georgetown University and the Treasurer of the Rapublican College Club of the School, spoke to Fox News Digital, O’Sullivan said that he “had been identified by these left -wing groups on anonymous campus messaging platforms” and students “disseminated lies and manufacturing to his subject”.

More “fascist hey! Catch!” Flyers were spotted on the campus of the University of Georgetown on the evening of Thursday, September 25, 2025, after a viral incident the day before. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

“I heard many people that they did not want to get involved in groups such as debate societies,” said Oliver. “This anonymous attack by people, from where you do not know where it comes from, is very frightening. So many people are dissuaded to share their beliefs in classrooms.”

Georgetown published a statement saying that the campus has “no tolerance for violence or threats to university” on Thursday.

“The leaflets have been removed and the University is investigating this incident and working to ensure the security of our community,” said Georgetown University.

But the students said that the administration could do more to dissuade this type of violent rhetoric.

“I would like to see the university to distinguish itself from other elite universities in the United States, which have all completely succumbed to leftism and have rotten from the inside,” said O’Sullivan.

A deplicant found on the campus of the University of Georgetown indicating support for the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 24, 2025. (Kiera McDonald / Fox News Digital)

While defending the right to freedom of expression, O’Sullivan argued that Georgetown is a private institution, and “if the school had a spine, they would absolutely condemn it and descend hard, and do not only send us an e-mail”.

Two students who spoke at Fox News Digital said they were fearing that the Trump administration will reduce their federal funding in response to the leaflet.

Cash Moore, a second year student from Georgetown and member of the College Democrats Club, said that when he had seen the poster for the first time in a group cat, he felt “the disappointment” that some students consider violence as acceptable.

“The first thing I thought was a bit disappointing that some people, perhaps on this campus, argue that violence is something that is productive in society,” said Moore.

However, he said he was concerned that the Trump administration’s attention to the leaflet could put a “target” at university “.

The posters mocking the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk were recorded Thursday at the University of Georgetown before being withdrawn and reported to the FBI. (Fox News)

Educational Secretary Linda McMahon published a declaration Wednesday, condemning the “appalling posters” and urging the university to “determine what it represents as an institution”.

“ED officials spoke to the administrators of Georgetown, who made the decision to withdraw the leaflets. The campus police investigate the incident and will deploy resources to protect students as necessary. Allow a violent rhetoric of cool on the campuses of our country without consequences.

“I think one of the things that worries me is: will Trump target us next?” Moore asked.

When he was contacted to comment on the fears of reprisals students, the White House spokesperson Liz Huston, told Fox News Digital: “This contemptible act in Georgetown underlines how common political violence has become on the left and why Charlie Kirk’s work on university campuses was so important.”

“Thanks to the debate, Charlie taught students to think critically and to engage between the differences. The Americans should continue to live according to the same principles as Charlie – to speak of the truth, to favor the real dialogue and to love your country,” added the White House.

A location on the campus of the University of Georgetown where several leaflets were found indicating support for the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 24, 2025. (Kiera McDonald / Fox News Digital)

Sunday, referring to Trump’s speech to the Kirk memorial when he said: “I hate my opponents,” Moore told Fox News Digital that he was “valid for the left to feel as afraid”.

Moore said that he had only seen the left take measures to condemn violence and that “a large part of the escalation comes from the right, not just a few crazy people who put posters on the left”.

“We have a freedom of expression on this campus, and I think it is something that many of us appreciate and, obviously, an appeal to violence is not something that should take place, but there is also this aspect of freedom of expression which is important to recognize,” he said.

Max Wolff-Merovick, a second year student and a member of the largest school debate company, said that he thought that the leaflets had been set up by “a small group of students” in order to arouse indignation rather than promote a student club.

A location on the campus of the University of Georgetown where several leaflets were found indicating support for the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 24, 2025. (Kiera McDonald / Fox News Digital)

“It is unequivocal to imitate the rhetoric of a political assassin,” said Wolff-Merovick. “It is not something that someone should do. But it also struck me as something that was more intended to cause indignation express rather than a serious attempt to create a student organization because it was characterized by a certain number of different people.”

Wolff-Merovick said that “this does not represent the student body” at school.

“Admittedly, I feel it, but I think that, at the same time, we must be anchored in reality and know that this does not represent the student body of Georgetown as a whole, even less the left in general,” he said.

Wolff-Merovick said the two parties “could do a better job to universally call to lower the temperature.”

Jonathan Rothschild, a student at the University of Georgetown, said that freedom of expression should remain protected, but that political violence “should not be glorified.”

“If it is not a direct call to violence, I think that the administration of the University of Georgetown, to protect freedom of expression, should leave it, even if I personally find it odious,” said Rothschild, adding that most students on campus are opposed to political violence.

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“I think everyone who has common sense should be against political violence,” he said.

The University of Georgetown did not immediately respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.

Peter d’Abrosca de Fox News Digital contributed to this report.