A Governor’s Council judicial appointment hearing that was targeted by gun owners for a protest rally — which in turn was targeted by white supremacists as a recruitment opportunity — has been postponed a week because several council members were unable to attend.

Councilor Marilyn M. Petitto Devaney said the decision to postpone the hearing on First Assistant Attorney General Christopher K. Barry-Smith’s judgeship appointment to next week has nothing to do with the gun owners or the white supremacists, but was made because three of the council’s eight members couldn’t attend.

The Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts is protesting Gov. Charlie Baker’s appointment of Barry-Smith over Attorney General Maura Healey’s July order banning so-called “copycat” rifles.

A post at the white supremacist site Stormfront.org — which has “White Pride Worldwide” as its motto — called on its adherents to use the rally as a recruiting opportunity. While noting the rally is not a “pro-white protest,” the Stormfront post, which uses anti-Semitic and racial slurs, nevertheless warns that “having our gun rights restricted will effect white families the most. It will leave us with no means to defend ourselves.”

“This protest could be a great way for WNs to recruit members to their groups,” reads the post, dated Friday, using an acronym for white nationalists. Under the username is the phrase “VOTE TRUMP.”

“The crowd will mostly be white males,” the post continues. “Just keep in mind this is liberal Massachusetts, so be discreet.”

GOAL director Jim Wallace disavowed the white supremacist bid to move in on his group’s rally.

“We’ve always been very open and very diverse,” Wallace said. “If someone is trying to get in there as a white supremacist, they’re certainly not welcome in our ranks. It’s certainly not the place to do what they’re doing, if that’s what they’re planning.”

GOAL has postponed its rally until next week’s hearing. The Stormfront post was updated late yesterday afternoon to note the postponement.

Stormfront was founded in the mid-1990s by Don Black, who the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a former Alabama Ku Klux Klan boss and “long-time white supremacist.” His website, according to the center, was the “first major hate site on the Internet.”