Brandon Taylor Moore, a 45-year-old Saskatoon man, was criminally charged with various “hate speech” crimes, including one of the first cases of “Holocaust Denial” in Canada, and is currently not allowed to post on the internet due to his bail conditions. Moore, a Christian, has consistently preached non-violence while expressing his beliefs, yet he is still being persecuted by the State with the help of Jewish special interest groups.
Moore had his family home raided on the morning of December 17th, 2025. Apparently, free speech is more of a dream than a reality in present-day Canada. According to hate speech laws in Canada and their current application, preaching non-violent religious beliefs is enough for police to raid your family home and charge you with 3 separate hate speech charges.
Moore was charged with public incitement of hatred under Section 319(1) of the Canadian Criminal Code and unsafe storage of a firearm under the Firearms Act. On January 13, 2026, during a court hearing, the Crown added two more charges: Wilful promotion of hatred under Section 319(2) of the Criminal Code and wilful promotion of antisemitism by condoning, denying, or downplaying the Holocaust under Section 319(2.1). From his first set of charges in December, his bail conditions prohibit him from publishing or posting anything on the internet or social media, effectively imposing a gag order. He also cannot be within a one-block radius of any Jewish community centre. On January 13th, Moore’s lawyer withdrew from the file; Moore is now self-represented.
Brandon Taylor Moore is alleged to have a social media account on X/Twitter with the handle @LetsGoBrando45. The account is still up as of March 2026 at the time of this article’s publication. Its bio states: “#1 sustained global engagement rate on X. Top 10 most bookmarked X Creator worldwide. EVANGELIST. Subscribe to support my mission to expose the truth.” This account gets large amounts of engagement that is disproportionate to its more modest but still significant follower count (around 180,000 as of March 2026). Estimates from X’s AI assistant Grok on this X account’s total impressions range from 800 million to 1.5 billion views.
The reach and success of this account that allegedly belongs to Moore, as well as Moore’s professional success in his career as a marketer and realtor, make Moore a prime target for the traditional enemies of free speech. He is professional, effective, and persistent with the expression of his values; This cannot stand for those who oppose his views.
B’nai Brith Canada, a “Canadian Jewish service organization and advocacy group”, boasted about getting Moore’s real estate license revoked by making formal complaints to the Saskatchewan Real Estate Commission in May 2024. They filed formal complaints to the police around the same time, and continued to do so until his arrest over a year later. B’nai Brith Canada applauded the charges being laid in December 2025.
The “Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center” (FSWC), another social advocacy group dedicated to combatting antisemitism, submitted an additional report to police, which suggested that Moore should be charged with the newer “Holocaust denial” hate speech law, and additional charges were eventually laid in January, which stemmed from this report.
B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Research and Advocacy, Richard Robertson, described Moore’s conduct to CBC: “Mr. Taylor Moore engages in conspiracy theories, denials of the Holocaust, and promotes some of the most virulent antisemitism that we have ever seen at our organization.” On the B’nai Brith Canada Instagram page, a post celebrates Moore’s arrest, along with three additional screenshots of Moore’s X account to showcase Moore’s alleged virulent antisemitic conduct.
One aspect that is glaringly missing from the examples of Moore’s posts that B’nai Brith showcases to argue that he is a danger to the community is incitements or endorsements of violence. Free Speech Watch searched through Moore’s account and found numerous examples of Moore explicitly preaching against the use of violence, especially against Jews. One example of many is: “Just a friendly reminder: Speaking truth to power is all we have to do. Don’t be enticed into violence. It’s not the way. Chaos helps them, and it’s what they want.”
B’nai Brith’s director of research, Robertson, repeatedly describes Moore to the media in terms that could be considered dehumanizing; this is similar to the accusations levelled against Moore for his conduct against Jews. Robertson has described Moore and his conduct to the press as “depraved, vitriolic, virulent, diabolical, repugnant, horrific, extremist”. This is how Moore is being portrayed by the media, as the media interviews only B’nai Brith for commentary on Moore’s arrest. This is the group that is persistently monitoring and reporting his activities, and they even explain how they intended to stop his activities by attacking his livelihood via campaigning to get his real estate license revoked, and escalated their attacks when they noticed this didn’t stop him.
This one-sided reporting paints Moore as an unhinged danger to the community, while any humanizing aspects of his character and intentions are ignored and omitted. B’nai Brith’s Robertson told the media: “I think any rational person examining his social media accounts would have concerns for their safety, knowing that Mr. Taylor Moore lived in their city”. Moore is also not afforded a chance to post online to refute the characterizations made against him due to the gag order from his bail conditions. Free Speech Watch looked into Moore’s alleged X posting history to better understand his character and how he has come into this present situation.
Dating back to 2022, Moore’s account posts about several controversial contemporary topics, including election fraud in the 2020 US Election, the war in Ukraine, and especially COVID-19. In October 2023, Moore posts: “I had two squad cars waiting to arrest me at 7:45 AM at my son’s hockey practice because I refused to comply and was entering the arena without a vaccine or clear test, which would have cost me circa 800 a month – which I could afford, but many can’t and it was a matter of principle.” Similar versions of this story were repeated across posts on his X account. In several posts, he describes himself at the Freedom Convoy of 2022 in Ottawa supporting the protest against vaccine mandates.
Moore’s account featured many such contentious objections, including posts pertaining to his Christian faith. One of the obvious reasons for Jewish groups targeting Moore is his steadfast belief in his interpretation of the Bible, specifically of verses that are critical of Judaism. He is also frequently critical of supposed “Judeo-Christians”, viewing this as a subversion of his understanding of true Christianity.
“Instead of always calling us ‘anti-semitic’, jews could just silence us using the truth and free speech. I notice that they’re into censorship and demonizing critics instead. Personally, I think it’s because they’re full shit”
In a post made the day before his arrest, Moore writes, “Instead of always calling us ‘anti-semitic’, jews could just silence us using the truth and free speech. I notice that they’re into censorship and demonizing critics instead. Personally, I think it’s because they’re full shit, as Christ Jesus teaches us. P.S. The Israel of God are those who are in Christ Jesus. Abraham’s true offspring.” This is followed by a meme image of Jesus burning an Israeli flag with a quote from the Bible verse Revelation 3:9; “I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.” Moore foreshadowed his arrest the next day, as litigation through the threat of state force was used to silence him instead of dialogue.
Moore contextualizes his theological beliefs to current events. In November 2025, he posted a video of destruction from Israeli airstrikes in Gaza with the caption: “Jews precision strike’d Gaza into a verifiable genocide. There are TENS of THOUSANDS of women and children buried beneath that hellscape. You will know them by the fruit they bear. This is the fruit of Satan.” B’nai Brith, being a staunch defender of Israel, has an obvious conflict of interest in deeming criticism of Israeli conduct as antisemitic hate speech.
This context helps better understand Moore’s motivations stemming from his religious views. Coupled with repeated denouncements of violence, the picture painted of Moore as an unhinged, violent hatemonger by B’nai Brith becomes less credible. In January 2025, after Moore’s real estate license was stripped due to a coordinated effort from B’nai Brith, Moore posted a picture of his family, thanking his supporters for their continued support of his family amidst the social and economic cancellation that was enacted upon them by B’nai Brith Canada.
B’nai Brith’s Robertson further stated that Moore’s posts extended to questioning “the existence of the residential school system in Canada and also whether or not there was a genocide against our First Nations people”. Robertson accuses Moore of “Residential School denialism”, which the NDP proposed to make illegal with a new Bill tabled in 2025, Bill C-254. Robertson also accuses him of “Holocaust denial”, which is currently illegal in Canada, and is one of the crimes that Moore was charged with.
This crime of supposed “Holocaust denial” is from a newer law that was passed in 2022 through the Federal Budget Bill. Criminal Code Section 319(2.1) makes it an offence to “communicate statements, other than in private conversation, that wilfully promote antisemitism by condoning, denying, or downplaying the Holocaust”.
The history of charges being laid for alleged “Holocaust denial” in Canada dates back to the 1980s, with the infamous Zundel trials, where publisher Ernst Zundel was charged under an archaic law criminalizing the spreading of false news. Zundel faced a decade-long battle against this charge, which ended with this rarely-used law being overturned after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled it unconstitutional.
New legislation criminalizing alleged “Holocaust denial” was introduced by Conservative MP Kevin Waugh of Saksatoon South in February 2022. Waugh is currently an MP in the same city where Brandon Taylor Moore was charged. Waugh cited reports from B’nai Brith Canada to justify this attempt to criminalize speech. The Bill did not pass in this form, but was instead passed through the 2022 Federal Budget Bill in June 2022 in nearly its exact original form. This legislative decision drew criticism from organizations like the Canadian Bar Association, which objects to the practice of using budget bills to enact substantive, non-financial changes to the Criminal Code, arguing that it prevents proper parliamentary scrutiny and debate.
Kenneth Paulin, 51, of North Bay, Ontario, was the first to be convicted under this new law and was sentenced to 9 months in jail in September 2025. The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) gave an impact statement to the court and commended his jail sentence and the precedent it set for future cases.
A January 2026 report from the Government of Canada, “National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism”, boasts about how at the “Annual Crown Conference, held in May 2025, approximately 700 Crown prosecutors received antisemitism training delivered by the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.” FSCW is a group that is training prosecutors and police officers to interpret certain speech as criminal, speech that they aggressively lobbied the government to ban. They are then giving police and prosecutors evidence on these charges, including specifically in the case of Brandon Taylor Moore.
Representatives from B’nai Brith Canada, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) (specifically Founding Chair Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress), all testified in a Committee Hearing in Senate in support of this new “Antisemitism via Holocaust denial” law shortly before it passed in 2022; Eventually leading to the conviction of Kenneth Paulin, and one of the charges laid against Brandon Taylor Moore.
The Holocaust being the only historical event that it is illegal to question in around 20 Western countries, is not just an obvious infringement of freedom of speech; to many it also serves to discredit the official Holocaust narrative itself, as the truth should fear no investigation, and making the questioning of certain historical events illegal logically causes suspicion of the motivations of these restrictions of speech. Truth should be found through dialogue, not state force, and no opinions about historical events should be made illegal.
Moore expresses concerns in his more recent posts about Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, which was tabled in September 2025 and is currently in the process of being passed into law. Bill C-9 proposes new hate crimes of obstruction and intimidation that would typically be applied against protests near places of worship. It also calls for the banning of symbols like the “hooked cross” (swastika), and a standalone hate crime offence that can be added onto any other offence. It may also remove the religious expression defence for wilful promotion of hatred. It also proposes to remove the requirement of consent of the Attorney General for laying charges in Sections 318 and 319, all related to forms of so-called “hate speech”. This was a safeguard to prevent police and prosecutors from charging people for hate speech offences without additional oversight. The only reason for removing this safeguard is to charge more people more often for hate speech crimes. The thread below gives an outline and analysis of the contents of Bill C-9 when it was first tabled in September 2025.
In December 2026, five Jewish organizations signed a joint statement in support of Bill C-9. These include CIJA (the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs), ALCCA (Alliance of Canadians Combatting Antisemitism), B’nai Brith Canada, CWAA (Canadian Women Against Antisemitism), and FSWC (Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center. Representatives of these groups have aggressively lobbied the government and influenced politicians for this action, including presenting submissions to the Justice Committee. One might ask why these Jewish special interest groups are allowed to have such a sway on criminalizing our speech.
In the two weeks following the Islamic State-inspired attack in Bondi Beach, Australia, on December 14th 2025, in which 16 people were killed during a Hanukkah event, three different Canadians, including Moore, were charged with either wilful promotion or incitement of hatred. These are three widely reported cases of hate speech charges being laid against Canadians in a two-week period, when it appears there have been fewer than three publicly announced cases of solely hate speech charges that had been laid in the rest of 2025 before December 14th. All three of these cases of hate speech charges were laid against White men who had no connection to the Islamic State or plots to murder Jews; Moore, Coutu (a Toronto beeshop owner), and a 25-year-old PEI man, Matthan Runighan.
The commanding officer of the P.E.I. RCMP stated: “The recent attacks in Australia clearly show the impacts of hate-motivated crime. In the Runighan case, an extensive investigation was conducted that has led to what I believe are the first ever hate crime charges in P.E.I.”. Richard Robertson of B’nai Brith also applauded Moore and Coutu’s arrests in the wake of the Bondi attack. These connections would be more coherent if they involved actual plotted violence against Jews or Islamic terrorism, which was responsible for this shooting, instead of White men committing so-called “hate speech” crimes. This raises questions about the intentions of B’nai Brith, which appears to use tragic events in order to capitalize on silencing their perceived enemies for speech they dislike, instead of taking practical measures to improve public safety.
“Though within this process, the traditional enemies of free speech will further reveal themselves to be the tyrants they accuse others of being, as cases like this are drawn out and public attention is brought towards them.“
Moore’s case could set precedents for free speech in the future. It could also be a rallying point for free speech in Canada, including freedom of religious expression and the pursuit of truth. Moore repeatedly cites the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in his posts. Matters of freedom of speech have historically gone to the Supreme Court, where the validity of laws that encroach upon freedoms is tested. Ernst Zundel battled in court for a decade on charges of “Holocaust denial”, the same accusation levelled against Moore, and this “false news” law at the time was overturned in the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. Moore may be situated to take this “hate speech” law and others all the way to the Supreme Court if he chooses to fight it all the way there. This will take time, money, and an immense amount of fortitude. Though within this process, the traditional enemies of free speech will further reveal themselves to be the tyrants they accuse others of being, as cases like this are drawn out and public attention is brought towards them.
We need to be brave and risk being targeted if we want people to understand and expose the actions these tyrants are taking and oppose them at all levels. We need to speak out, organize, campaign; We need to fight the battle of free speech on all fronts. Facing off against an enemy with the power to potentially cut your tongue out can be frightening, but that is the cost of freedom.
Moore’s next court date is scheduled for March 31, 2026, where Crown Election will occur, meaning that the prosecutor will decide whether this will be a summary (less serious) or an indictable offence. This will determine whether there will be lighter or harsher penalties, as well as an opportunity for a jury trial if the Crown proceeds by indictment. Since his lawyer has been excused, Moore has been given the disclosure for his case, provided he does not share any of it with the public and then promptly returns it.
What happens next may determine the future of free speech in Canada.
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