Drivers on headed north on Interstate 5 Saturday to view the eclipse were greeted with a jarring sight: anti-Semitic banners on overpasses.

Jimmy Marr, a Springfield neo-Nazi known for his public displays of racism and anti-Semitism, seemed to take credit for the banners Sunday on social media. Marr, 64, tweeted pictures of the signs and news articles about them.

When Gov. Kate Brown repudiated the banners on social media, Marr, who online goes by the username @GenocideJimmy, wrote "Truth is hate to those who hate the truth."

He also posted photos Sunday evening of people holding up new signs, which read "Bolshevik Jews perpetrated the Holodomor" and "Resist Racial Eclipse," flanked by swastikas.

Anti-Semitic signs were first reported to the Oregon Department of Transportation on Saturday by Beth and Michael Dershowitz, Californians driving north to see the eclipse.

The couple told The Oregonian/OregonLive they were shocked to see the banners in the Eugene and Salem areas, which read "UnJew Humanity," "Eclipse Whitey," and "Jewish Financing Available."

Transportation department officials responded, but the signs were gone by the time they got there, said spokeswoman Angela Beers Seydel. She added that it's agency policy that banners are not to be displayed on freeway overpasses -- regardless of message -- because they're a distraction to drivers.

Beers Seydel said Sunday that no one responsible for the signs had been identified by the transportation agency. Agency staff haven't called police either, she said.

Undeterred, Marr tweeted Sunday that he bets Beth Dershowitz is "as fake as Anne Frank's diary." He didn't respond to calls requesting comment left on his home answering machine. The message says, "Leave us a message after the tone. Tell us what you're doing to fight white genocide."

Beers Seydel said she is familiar with Marr and his antics but hadn't seen his social media accounts.

Marr first made news for his banners in 2013, when he hung one up on I-5 that read, "Anti-racist is code word for anti-white."

He made Eugene-area news in 2016 for an arrest after blasting a recording declaring "hate is good" at an anti-hate crimes march. Marr also made headlines this year for driving a truck around Lane County that's emblazoned with a swastika and "TRUMP Do The White Thing."

-- Gordon R. Friedman

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