White supremacist commentator Nick Fuentes. Photo: YouTube screenshot.

A hotel in Prescott, Arizona has cancelled an extremist right-wing student event at which white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes was scheduled to deliver the keynote address.

According to numerous public statements, College Republicans United (CRU) — not to be confused with the Republican National Committee affiliated “College Republicans” — allegedly misrepresented the event at the Hassayampa Inn.

The hotel said in a statement shared with The Algemeiner it had only booked a “college students awards ceremony,” and added, “this event will no longer be held” on its grounds.

A local Republican group, Pima County Republican Party, said, “We never agreed to speak at or support this event.” Even so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jake Angeli-Chansley, who is himself a known alt-right extremist for spreading conspiracies and participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, has said he was not apprised of Fuentes’ involvement in the event and that he was reconsidering his decision to participate in it.

Fuentes, who became a widely known public figure after joining Kanye West for dinner at the Florida home of former President Donald Trump, is notorious for promoting Holocaust denialism, the racial inferiority of blacks, and casually using racial slurs to demean liberals, conservatives, and public figures of all identities. As leader of the “Groyper Movement,” a neo-Nazi adjacent group that aims to subvert and overthrow the government by infiltrating the Republican Party, Fuentes has, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said “I love Hitler” and, Southern Poverty Law Center reported, in a document describing his activities, said rape is “not so big a deal.”

Following the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Fuentes said on Facebook, “You can call us racists, white supremacists, Nazis & bigots. You can disavow us on social media from your cushy Campus Reform job. But you will not replace us.” In 2021, he called for “discussing Jewish power.”

Trumps’ meeting with Fuentes was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition, which had just hosted him at a leadership conference. The group said, “We strongly condemn the virulent antisemitism of Kanye West and Nick Fuentes and call on all political leaders to reject their messages of hate and refuse to meet with them.”

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