Goyim Defense League
anti-Jewish pro-Islamist American Neo-Nazi group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Goyim Defense League (GDL) is an active American Neo-Nazi group.
Background
The GDL has been led by Neo-Nazi Jon Minadeo II since 2018.[1][2] On the internet, the GDL is active on social media, operating a television called the GoyimTV. In real life, the GDL regularly harasses American Jews by holding antisemitic marches and dropping flyers over Jewish neighborhoods.
Activities
2018
Name the Jew tour
GDL member Patrick Little[3] ran on a Republican Party ticket in the 2018 United States Senate election in California for Dianne Feinstein's seat.[4][5] The California Republican Party later condemned and removed Little from their convention in San Diego. Little stomped on an Israeli flag while screaming:[5]
| “ | They just had me expelled [...] because I won't serve Israel. | ” |
Afterwards, Little toured the country from July to August 2018 with placards alleging that "Jews Rape Kids", "Jews Killed 30 Million" and "The Holocaust is a Lie."[6] He also alleged that Israel planned the September 11 attacks.[6][7] Despite removal from the convention, Little received 62,830 votes (1.4%).[8][9][10] Little refused to admit defeat, claiming that he was a victim of voter fraud by "Jewish supremacists and Zionists".[8]
2019
Little moved to Idaho to run for one of two vacant seats in the 2019 Garden City Council election. He came in last with 126 votes (3.7%).[11][12]
2023
In June 2023, the GDL put antisemitic flyers into mailboxes across Plainview, New York,[13] blaming Jewish lawmakers for gun control.[13][14] In August 2023, the GDL did it again in Fairfax County, Virginia.[15] GDL member Robert Wilson was arrested in Poland to be extradited to the Netherlands for projecting antisemitic messages onto the Anne Frank House, falsely claiming that Anne Frank's diary was "faked because it was written with a ballpoint pen".[16][17] Anne Frank's diary was written was written with a fountain pen and with pencil.[18]
They did the same in America,[19] especially at the Florida-Georgia football game in Jacksonville, Florida, where they defended Kanye West's antisemitic remarks.[20] In February 2023, they hung a banner "Henry Ford was right about the Jews" outside the Daytona Speedway, and projected "Hitler was right" onto a block.[17]
March of the Red Shirts
On September 2, 2023, GDL joined the Neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe to march in Altamonte Springs, Florida, where they waved Nazi flags, made Nazi salutes and shouted "Heil Hitler."[21][22]
Support for the October 7 attacks
Minadeo cheered the October 7 attacks in a live episode:[23]
| “ | Come on guys, it's time to dance! Get those Jews! [...] Let's go Lebanon, Iran! Wipe Israel off the map! | ” |
2024
In July 2024, they worked with other Neo-Nazi groups to drop antisemitic flyers across Tennessee. They asked passer-bys if they were Jewish, and disrupted a city council meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.[24][better source needed]
2025
In June 2025, a Nashville resident sued the GDL over assaults on him by its members during their 10-day "intimidation tour" in July 2024. The Southern Poverty Law Center filed the lawsuit for him, accusing GDL members of breaking the Ku Klux Klan Act[25] by disrupting a Metro Council meeting, accosting passerbys, and chanting "Sieg Heil" and "f*** the Jews" while making Nazi salutes.[26][27]
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Similar groups
Just as the GDL, the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) – a Neo-Nazi party seeking to build a "national socialist" ethno-state for White people[28] – supported the October 7 attacks:[23]
| “ | [The attack was ... ] Breaking out of a concentration camp [. ...] solidarity with the Palestinian people [...] Jews are welcome [... if they] cease and desist their genocidal campaigns. Free Palestine. | ” |
Meanwhile, the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Front (NSF) Florida,[29] sold T-shirts that featured Hamas paragliders and rifles alongside the slogan "F*** Israel".[23]
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References
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