MOUNTAIN VIEW — A day after President Donald Trump sought to blame both sides for deadly protests in Charlottesville, a movement against Google adopted his language and blamed the so-called “alt-left” for ratcheting up the threat of violence.

“The Peaceful March on Google has been postponed due to credible Alt Left terrorist threats for the safety of our citizen participants,” rally organizer Jack Posobiec wrote on the event’s website.

“Credible threats from known Alt Left terrorist groups have been reported to and relevant authorities have been notified. In one instance, an Alt Left threat was made to use an automobile to drive into our peaceful march,” Posobiec wrote.

Posobiec has denounced the violence that erupted in Charlottesville and said any display of hatred and bigotry has no place in America. The march’s website clearly stated it was not an alt-right event and that participants would “not use messages that are designed to incite anger, hate, or violence.”

Trump used the term “alt-left” to refer to counterprotesters in Charlottesville in a news conference Tuesday. In blaming white supremacists and far-left protesters equally, Trump’s remarks have been credited with inflaming America’s political divide.

Protest rallies called the “March on Google” had been scheduled for Saturday at the search giant’s Mountain View headquarters and at eight other company offices in the United States. The search giant was targeted for its firing of engineer James Damore over his internal memo arguing that biology could be a factor in the under-representation of women in technology jobs. Organizers said the protests would be rescheduled at an undertermined later date.

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Far-right activist Posobiec has told this news organization that he is not “alt-right” but is “new right,” distancing himself from the racism of the alt-right. The “alt-right” is an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism. However, his language in announcing the postponement suggests he is “very steeped in the kind of politics and history of the alt-right,” said UC Berkeley professor Lawrence Rosenthal, director of the UC Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies.

“Part of what such movements have always done is claim that if they were ever violent, it was always in defense of themselves, that they never initiate violence. The Mussolini movement argued that,” Rosenthal said, referring to the late Italian fascist leader.

The far right has targeted Google — whose fired engineer also argued that dissenting views were quashed within the firm — to rally support around the belief that conservative viewpoints are under attack on multiple fronts, including on university campuses and in the mainstream media, Rosenthal said.

The anti-Google actions are part of a broader strategy that includes fighting the radical left, anti-fascist “Antifa” movement in the streets, he said.

“The purpose is to polarize the American population as a whole to have to choose one or another extreme — the implication is, that kind of polarization will lead to a triumph of the extreme right,” Rosenthal said, noting that the Antifa were willing participants in the battles.

However, right-wing writer, documentarian and activist Mike Cernovich, who said he was going to cover the “March on Google,” suggested that threats against marchers from the “alt-left” could lead to violent conflict in the future.

“If the alt-left threatens us, then the only way we can hold events is to bring in heavy security and prepare for violence,” Cernovich told this news organization via Twitter. “That atmosphere is what led to that Charlottesville tragedy,” said Cernovich, who like Posobiec calls himself “new right.”

While the Antifa and “alt-right” may share an affinity for brawling in the streets, Trump’s suggestion that the Antifa are the far-left version of the alt-right and are therefore the “alt-left” is false, said Thomas Main, a City University of New York Baruch College professor who is writing a book about the “alt-right.” The Antifa are a protest movement against the “alt-right,” while the “alt-right” is an ideological movement with political goals, Main asserted.

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“The essence of the alt-right is they do not believe that all men are created equal,” Main said. “What they’re saying is that all people should not be equal politically — they’re saying that the differences that exist between people in terms of intelligence and so forth ought to translate into the political sphere so that some people have more rights and a privileged position, and that the group that should have this privileged position is of course white people.”

A counterprotest to the anti-Google march in Mountain View will still go ahead Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Mountain View Civic Center, with a focus on national politics, said organizer Lenny Siegel.

“Perhaps there will be a smaller turnout, but I think it’s important for us to continue to speak out collectively and organize on many fronts,” said Siegel, the city’s vice-mayor, who said the counterprotest was not an official city event.

“The scary thing is that we have a President who fails to understand that white supremacy, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslimism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. are un-American. Secondarily, there are other national political leaders who distance themselves from Trump’s rhetoric but have made a Devil’s bargain with him to push forward their conservative agenda. They need to back up their criticism with substantive action,” Siegel said.

Mountain View police said they had not received any reports of threats toward the “March on Google.” Posobiec did not respond to a request for comment. Protest organizers gave no further details of the threats or where they originated

Anti-Google protests had been planned for New York City, Washington, D.C., Boston, Austin, Texas, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Mountain View, according to Posobiec.

Organizers of the “March on Google” rallies hope to hold them in a few weeks, Posobiec said.

Far-right rallies, expected to attract the “alt-right,” have also been scheduled for Aug. 26 in San Francisco and Aug. 27 in Berkeley. These events do not appear to have been organized by the same people planning the “March on Google.”

Staff writer Mark Gomez contributed to this report.