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Toronto (September 29, 2026) – Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) is deeply disappointed by the 18-month conditional sentence imposed yesterday on Brandon Taylor Moore after he pleaded guilty to publicly inciting hatred against Jewish people. The sentence, jointly recommended by the Crown and Moore, involves no jail time and fails to reflect the seriousness, persistence and extraordinary reach of his conduct.

FSWC’s concerns are grounded in its extensive investigation of the thousands of hateful tweets Moore posted from his X account. As an original complainant, FSWC spent nearly two years monitoring, preserving and analyzing hundreds of his public posts before submitting a 119-page evidence dossier to the Saskatoon Police Service in December 2025. It was one of the most extensive investigations into online antisemitic hate propaganda the organization has ever undertaken.

The dossier documented a sustained campaign, shared with Moore’s approximately 180,000 followers on X, in which he called for Jews to be expelled from Western countries, portrayed them as dangerous and less than human, promoted conspiracy theories accusing Jews of collective criminality and control, and denied and distorted the Holocaust. Among his posts, he wrote “THE JEWS NEED TO GO!”, described Jews as a “brood of vipers” working to “infect the world with Satanic ideologies,” and declared Anne Frank’s diary “FAKE.”

FSWC is particularly troubled by the Crown’s decision earlier this summer to drop the charges of wilful promotion of hatred and wilful promotion of antisemitism by condoning, denying or downplaying the Holocaust. In FSWC’s view, the evidence it assembled strongly supported those charges. Despite pleading guilty to publicly inciting hatred, Moore showed little remorse at sentencing, using his opportunity to address the court to defend his conduct and to rail against Israel.

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“After months of painstaking investigation, we provided extensive evidence of a sustained campaign to vilify and dehumanize Jewish people, including explicit calls for their expulsion and repeated Holocaust denial and distortion,” said Jaime Kirzner-Roberts, FSWC’s Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy. “The decision to abandon the more serious charges, followed by a sentence that involves no jail time, amounts to a slap on the wrist and represents a profound failure of accountability.” Kirzner-Roberts delivered a community impact statement at Moore’s sentencing last night, outlining the harm his sustained campaign caused to Canada’s Jewish community.

As part of his sentence, Moore was ordered to delete the hateful posts published on his X account between February 2024 and December 2025 and to refrain from speaking about Jews online for the duration of the sentence. He is also prohibited from publicly referencing FSWC or B’nai Brith during that period.

The outcome points to a broader weakness in the prosecution of hate cases: following sentencing, the Crown prosecutor acknowledged that hate-speech prosecutions are rare and that this was his first such case.

These prosecutions require a deep understanding of antisemitism, extremist ideologies, coded and cumulative forms of hate and the harm sustained online campaigns cause to targeted communities, which is why FSWC has long called for specialized hate-crime prosecution units within provincial prosecution services. Dedicated expertise would help prosecutors assess evidence in its full context, pursue appropriate charges and convey the gravity of these offences to the courts.

“At a time when Jewish Canadians face alarming levels of antisemitism and synagogues are being subjected to violent attacks, including in Belleville last week, the justice system must become more effective at holding perpetrators accountable,” Kirzner-Roberts added. “Jewish Canadians deserve prosecutions that reflect the seriousness of crimes targeting their community and outcomes that meaningfully denounce and deter hate.”

FSWC will continue to advocate for specialized hate-crime prosecution capacity across Canada and for effective accountability when online hate crosses the line into criminal conduct.

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