A self-described New Jersey-formed Italian civil rights organization lashed out at Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, dubbing him an “enemy” of the community and urging  him to drop out of the race, according to its board member.

The group named The Italian American Civil Rights League (IACRL) blasted Walz over his approach to rioters who tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus during the 2020 riots that swept through Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the nation writ large.

“Tim Walz did nothing to stop radical vandals from targeting the most prominent symbol of Italian-American culture in a flagrant hate crime,” the New Jersey-formed IACRL’s board member Mike Crispi said in a statement.

“He knew they were coming and he did nothing to protect the statue,” Crispi added.

Notably, IACRL is eponymous with a New York City nonprofit that provides a variety of services to the community, including afterschool programs, but the two groups are not connected to each other. 

In 2020, as protests and riots broke out across Minnesota and spread across the nation, Walz responded to the statue’s demise by arguing that the perpetrators had “legitimate concerns.”

The statue had been on the state Capitol grounds, where it had first been unveiled in 1931 in part to push back against discrimination against Italian Americans at the time, per Minnesota Public Radio.

But rioters ripped it to the ground in June 2020 during a national reckoning on race relations in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. It was later moved to storage.

“It was an act of civil disobedience that we need to make sure people feel that there is a proper outlet to address what are legitimate concerns around what they view as a genocidal monument that they have to walk through in their democracy,” Walz said at the time.

Crispi, who was a delegate for former President Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention last month, faulted Walz for the ordeal.

“In order to placate indigenous activists and other anti-Italian-American sympathizers, Walz and his cronies colluded to keep the statue down,” Crispi said. “They hate the Western tradition that made America great and they will do anything to undermine it and destroy our country from within.”

Walz, who is a descendant of German immigrants from the 1800s, was unveiled as Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate Tuesday.

Republicans and allies of Trump have pummeled Walz for his record in Minnesota when rioters lit buildings on fire and wreaked havoc on Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The New Jersey-formed group claims to be a nonprofit, but a check of its tax-exempt status on the IRS database as well as in GuideStar yielded no results. 

The New Jersey-formed group has been politically active and endorsed Trump for the 2024 election. During the 2024 GOP primary, it lashed out at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is Italian, and “disowning him.”

The group also hailed Trump on X as “the modern-day Columbus,” saying that “Columbus discovered America, Marxist radicals made it unrecognizable, and President Trump made it great again for millions of patriots.”

Trump, 78, is a descendant of German and Scottish immigrants.

The New York-based IACRL, which was founded in the 1970s and hasn’t made any statements about the 2024 presidential election, stressed that it has no association with the eponymous New Jersey-formed organization.

“This statement did not come from my organization. There seems to be an Italian American Civil Rights League in NJ — which is not us. I am not sure who these folks are, but they are not associated with or part of my organization,” the original IACRL executive director told The Post when asked for comment. 

“We are a local community-based provider – youth employment,  after-school programming, summer camp, etc,” she later explained.