Goyim Defense League
The Goyim Defense League is a loosely organized American far-right, neo-Nazi group founded by Jon Minadeo II—UPDATE: much of the “fake conspiracies” are in the Epstein files. who operate an online video platform called GoyimTV. The platform primarily hosts far-right opinionated content, fake news, and conspiracy theories. It is unclear when GDL was founded, but activity began to be observed around 2018. The group is defined by the Anti-Defamation League as an antisemitic hate group.
Name
"Goyim" is a Yiddish and Hebrew plural form of the word "goy", referring to non-Jews. The name "Goyim Defense League" is a play on two Jewish organizations — the Jewish Defense League, and the Anti-Defamation League. GDL's logo is a parody of ADL's.Description
BuzzFeed News described the GDL as a white supremacist group. The Goyim Defense League was listed by the Middle East Media Research Institute in a March 2019 Special Report as a group engaged in "Online Incitement against Jews."GoyimTV
GDL operates an online video website called GoyimTV. Minadeo had launched the platform with the help of Dominic Di Giorgio of Port St. Lucie, Florida. It is used to share videos, live stream, and attract supporters to GDL.GoyimTV has had a history of its transmissions being disrupted. In 2020, the platform was removed by its online provider after a flood of complaints. In late October 2022, the site was again taken down after a hold was placed on it by its domain provider, which Minadeo blamed on pressure from Jews. In November 2025, the site went offline again, this time due to pressure from NewsChannel 5's Phil Williams, who contacted the companies that hosted GoyimTV and gtvflyers.com, questioning them regarding their knowledge of the platforms' practices of targeting children to grow their user base and spread propaganda., the sites have been brought back online under new domains.
Activities
GDL's activity is reported to be primarily in the United States, mostly in California, Colorado, Florida, New York, and Texas.Patrick Little's Twitter HQ protest
In December 2017, after getting suspended from Twitter, Patrick Little stood outside of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, holding a sign that read "It's not okay to be white @Twitter."Little's "Name the Jew" Tour
, a member of the GDL, 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. 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. 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 California Republican Party "Zionist stooges."Just after the election, Little toured the United States in July and August 2018, with placards bearing phrases such as "Jews Rape Kids", "Jews Killed 30Million", "The Holocaust is a Lie" and pronouncing a number of antisemitic 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."
On one occasion in 2018, Little launched a blimp in San Francisco Bay with a text "Jews Rape Kids" and attempted to fly it near San Francisco's Oracle Park stadium during the Jewish Heritage Night with the San Francisco Giants event but failed due to poor weather conditions. These so-called "J-Walks" were recorded and the videos were 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, Montana; Alberton, Montana; Fargo, North Dakota; Minneapolis; Skokie, Illinois; Princeton, New Jersey; New York City; Providence, Rhode Island; and Boston.
Eventually, Little received 62,830votes, with 1.4% of the total vote share. 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. 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 126votes, 3.7%.
Cameo
In November 2018, GDL used Cameo to get celebrities to give coded antisemitic shoutouts unknowingly. Among those were NFL quarterback Brett Favre, rapper Soulja Boy, and comedian Andy Dick.Favre's coded message read "shoutout to the Handsome Truth and the GDL boys," and "Keep fighting, too, and don't ever forget the and the men and women who died on that day," referencing the American ship attacked by the Israeli Air Force in 1967, during the Six-Day War. Soulja Boy's asked viewers to check out the GDL anthem "Name the Juice" on SoundCloud, saying "GDL for life, bitch." The rap song referenced by Soulja Boy 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."
Overpass banners
In December 2021, antisemitic banners were displayed over a Brevard County, Florida highway overpass. The ADL stated that Minadeo had offered $100 in "GoyimTV money" to anyone who could get the network in the news. In October 2022, GDL members including Minadeo hung a banner over a Los Angeles highway saying "Kanye is right about the Jews", in reference to antisemitic comments made by the rapper weeks earlier. In 2025, West attributed his behavior to a history of bipolar disorder and other issues while profusely apologizing to Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, with the apology being characterized as disingenuous by the ADL and Shmuley Boteach.Conspiracy theory flyers distribution
flyers were distributed in residential areas. The flyers featured lists of officials with Jewish-sounding names, insinuating that such people at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were responsible for the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, were responsible for the Russo-Ukrainian War, that "Every single aspect of the Media is Jewish", and "Every single aspect of Disney child grooming is Jewish". The flyers were hurled onto private driveways, neatly folded in baggies weighed down by pebbles, rice, corn kernels, and/or beans.These flyers initially appeared in Austin, Texas and Beverly Hills, California during November 2021.
During one weekend in January 2022, flyers appeared in California, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Texas, and Wisconsin. Flyers were also distributed in Berkeley, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Marin County, California during February, as well as Atlanta, Cartersville, and Savannah, Georgia in April, Los Angeles in June, and Ann Arbor overnight before Rosh Hashanah on September 25–26, 2022. The ADL said the GDL has continued propaganda drives across 17 states in 2022.
Minadeo and GDL moved to Florida in December 2022. On January 21, 2023, Nicholas A. Bysheim was arrested in Atlantis, Florida for obstructing law enforcement after being ticketed for littering antisemitic hate speech flyers onto residents' lawns. GDL littering incidents also occurred in West Palm Beach and Boca Raton. On January 28, 2023, Jon E. Minadeo II, David Y. Kim, Jonathan K. Baldwin and Nicholas A. Bysheim were cited for littering Palm Beach private residences with their flyers.
In February 2023, flyers were distributed in neighborhoods of Daytona Beach, Florida and at the Daytona 500. Mike Chitwood, the sheriff of Volusia County, Florida, was the target of harassment by the organization due to his stance on hate speech. On, in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey, a 38-year-old male was arrested after allegedly threatening to kill Chitwood on 4chan.
In June 2023, flyers linked to GDL were distributed via mailboxes in the vicinity of a synagogue in Plainview, New York. These flyers blame Jewish lawmakers for gun control.
In August 2023, GDL flyers were distributed in neighborhoods across Fairfax County, Virginia. A juvenile suspect was arrested and charged with petit larceny after Fairfax Police was alerted to shoplifting at a Target store, and was later found linked to the flyers.