In December 2025, Davide Mastracci created a new project detailing seven institutions IDF soldiers attended, including two synagogues, both of which were attacked soon after.
The alleged invitation comes after the candidate claimed he had been banned from all Waffle House locations in Florida after he announced his intention to campaign there.
The WhatsApp chat’s racist and antisemitic content was first reported this week by the Miami Herald and the Floridian, a local conservative outlet.
Brandon Herrera, known on YouTube as “The AK Guy,” is a gun-rights activist whose YouTube output includes videos admiring Nazi firearms.
The arson attack struck an institution that, since its founding, has linked far-flung congregations across the South and imbued generations of Jewish leaders with appreciation for Jewish life.
One of the posts described the attack as a form of resistance to “apartheid,” while another showed people on a captured IDF vehicle with messaging about opposing "occupation" and "oppression."
One account, “Armenian Radical,” whose symbol includes imagery associated with Nazi Germany, has posted slurs against Jews, including use of the derogatory term “zhids,” alongside praise for Iran.
The four were arrested in relation to an ongoing investigation into surveillance of locations linked to Jewish communities.
His victim was slashed in the neck and face, hospitalized and placed into a coma, and still is unable to work, the court was told.
The protester, Brian McGinnis, a Marine veteran running as a Green Party candidate in North Carolina’s Senate race, disrupted a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on military readiness.
Columnist Joel Mowbray argued that the claim is both unfounded and dangerous, noting that Chabad institutions and events have historically been targets of antisemitic violence.
