Goyim Defense League

Patrick Little, a member of the GDL,[3] ran on a Republican Party ticket in the 2018 United States Senate election in California for Dianne Feinstein's seat. A native of Albany, California, Little is an IT engineer who had previously served in the United States Marine Corps in Afghanistan.[12] Little's campaign gained attention in May 2018 when he polled second only to Feinstein in a SurveyUSA poll with 18% of the general electorate and 46% with Republicans.[13][14] However, the California Republican Party denounced Little and he was removed from their convention in San Diego, while stomping on an Israeli flag, claiming "They just had me expelled from the building because I won't serve Israel", calling the Californian Republican Party "Zionist stooges."[13]

Just after the election, Little toured the United States in July and August 2018, with placards bearing anti-Jewish phrases such as "Jews Rape Kids", "Jews Killed 30 Million", "The Holocaust is a Lie"[15] and pronouncing openly in public a number of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, such as claiming that the Holocaust is a hoax, that Israel played a major role in 9/11, that Jews controlled the African slave trade before the Civil War, and that "Jews kill Christians — they do it a lot historically."[16] These so-called "J-Walks" were recorded and the videos put on the internet on platforms such as YouTube and BitChute by Little and the GDL. Little's "Name the Jew" Tour ran from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, stopping off at: Olympia, Washington; Seattle; Missoula, Montana; Helena; Alberton; Fargo, North Dakota; Minneapolis; Skokie, Illinois; Providence, Rhode Island; Princeton, New Jersey; Boston and New York City.[15][17]

Eventually, Little received 54,507 votes, with 1.4% of the total vote share.[18][19] Little claimed that he was the victim of voter fraud by "the Jewish supremacists and the Zionists" and stated that he would run in the 2020 United States presidential election.[18] He moved to Idaho and ran for one of two vacant seats in the 2019 Garden City, Idaho City Council election, coming in last with 126 votes, 3.7%.[20]

In November 2018, a number of celebrities who feature on the Cameo app, who provide personalised "shoutouts" to people who pay a certain amount of money, up to $500, were successfully trolled by the GDL and gained the group significant international media attention by getting celebrities to give coded anti-Jewish shoutouts.[1][8] Among those implicated were NFL quarterback Brett Favre, rapper Soulja Boy and comedian Andy Dick.[21][22][5][3]

For example, Favre said "shoutout to the Handsome Truth and the GDL boys," and "Keep fighting, too, and don't ever forget the USS Liberty and the men and women who died on that day." Referencing an American ship which was attacked by the Israelis in 1967 during the Six-Day War.[1] While, Soulja Boy asked viewers to check out the GDL anthem "Name the Juice" (i.e. – Name the Jew) on SoundCloud, saying "GDL for life, bitch."[23] The rap song which Soulja Boy references features Holocaust denial lyrics such as "I heard your quotes from your Talmud book, you're a fake Jew bitch and you never got cooked, never got gassed" and "they wanna tax and take whats ours, lie about ovens, lampshades and showers, wanna play the victim, but you're really a coward, thats why I name the Jew every second of hours."[24]

In November 2021, GDL was responsible for distributing anti-Semitic flyers in residential areas of Austin, Texas and Beverly Hills, California; this was repeated in January 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. The flyers, neatly folded in baggies weighed down by rice, pebbles or beans, were hurled onto private driveways in a random pattern. They featured a list of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials with Jewish-sounding names, insinuating from this that Jews were responsible for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.[25] The ADL stated that a December incident where anti-Semitic banners were displayed over a Brevard County, Florida highway overpass was the work of the GDL. It said that Minadeo had offered $100 in "GoyimTV money" to anyone who could get the network in the news.[11]