The Goyim Defense League (GDL) is an American neo-Nazi and antisemitic hate group and conspiracy theory network of individuals who are active on social media websites and operate an online video platform called GoyimTV.

[7] The Goyim Defense League was listed by the Middle East Media Research Institute in a March 2019 Special Report of groups engaged in "Online Incitement against Jews.

[12][13] Patrick Little, a member of the GDL,[14] ran on a Republican Party ticket in the 2018 United States Senate election in California for Dianne Feinstein's seat.

[29][30][31][14] Favre's coded message read "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 the American ship attacked by the Israeli Air Force in 1967, during the Six-Day War.

[9] 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 recently made by the rapper.

[37] The flyers were hurled onto parked cars and private driveways, neatly folded in baggies weighed down by pebbles, rice, corn kernels, and/or beans.

[36] Flyers were also distributed in Berkeley, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Marin County, California during February; Atlanta, Cartersville, and Savannah, Georgia in April;[36] Los Angeles in June;[37] and Ann Arbor overnight before Rosh Hashanah on September 25–26, 2022.

[39] 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.

[40] 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.

[citation needed] A Goyim Defense League member, Robert Wilson, was arrested in Poland and extradited to the Netherlands for allegedly using a projector to display an antisemitic message on the side of the Anne Frank House.

[48] From October 2022 to January 2023, members of the group performed dozens of projections in Florida, including a highly visible incident at the Florida-Georgia football game in Jacksonville, led by Minadeo.

A few dozen demonstrators participated in what they called the "March of the Red Shirts," waving swastika flags, performing Nazi salutes and shouting "Heil Hitler.

"[50][51] During the 2023 attack on Israeli civilians by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Minadeo publicly cheered the assault on his livestream, saying “Come on guys, it’s time to dance!

[52] In July 2024, GDL, Patriot Front, and other white supremacist and neo-Nazi organizations handed out flyers, asked passersby if they were Jewish, and disrupted a City Council meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.