| Name | Goyim Defense League |
|---|---|
| Tags | Nazi, Fascist and Ethnonationalist |
| Categories | Online Network |
| Related People/Groups | |
| Years Active | 2018 – Present |
| Active Areas | Transnational |
The Goyim Defense League (GDL) is a loose, transnational and obsessively antisemitic neo-Nazi network.
Founded in the US, the GDL’s assorted content creators, online trolls and affiliated activists harass Jewish people, vandalise property, distribute propaganda and perform publicity stunts. GDL is also behind the video platform, GoyimTV, which hosts extreme anti-Jewish content.
GDL has a small number of affiliated individuals in the UK, and printed GDL material has appeared in Dudley, Brighton, Aberdeen, Swansea, Manchester, Bolton and elsewhere.
In December 2021, the Manchester-based content creator Richard Hesketh, who posted his videos to GoyimTV, received four years in prison for seven counts of inciting racial hatred. He had previously appeared in a video with GDL founder Jon Minadeo (AKA Handsome Truth).
In October 2024, Robert Taylor, based near Bolton, was convicted of numerous terror and race hate-related offences, including distributing GDL propaganda by hand and verbally abusing several Jewish people in unprovoked antisemitic attacks.
Another Brit linked to the GDL is the neo-Nazi Ryan Weston, who hosts his online show “Weston Paradigm” on the GoyimTV platform.
Minadeo has also twice appeared on the online show of Patriotic Alternative leader Mark Collett.
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