Between 2009 and 2014, Kaalep was actively involved in the editing of the Estonian section of the anti-Semitic and Nazi online encyclopaedia Metapedia.

"[4] In March, Kaalep shared a photo of himself and his companions standing behind Simon Wiesenthal Centre director Efraim Zuroff, holding their noses and, in Mikk Salu's opinion, mocking the man.

According to Kaalep, this disrespect was not directed at people of Jewish ethnicity, but at Efraim Zuroff alone, who "has for decades made statements that are hostile to Estonia and slanderous of our freedom struggle.

[10] According to Karl Martin Sinijärv, Kaalep is able to use his novel imagery and cool substance to create an entirely enjoyable poetic picture out of even old and supposedly boring metre.

[11] Rauno Alliksaar, however, has been critical of Kaalep's "dripping and sometimes thinly metaphored patriotism"[12] and Aare Pilv of his "patriotic-militaristic eroticism".

[13] Siim Lill, on the other hand, describes Kaalep's poems as "sustained by a thorough self-irony", adding: "The author is aware of the addressees and impact of his words – that his texts irritate even beforehand, that nationalism automatically creates polemics.

"[14] In 2022, Kaalep won a special prize at Otepää Parish Rhymed Chronicle awards for his poem "Hexameter of Päidla".