Thread by @antihateca

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is proudly antifascist, and that means we have critics. In 2019, Jon and Barbara Kay shared an article which says that we fund violence. This is a lie. One of our board members sued them as an individual because he was named in the article.

The Kays tried their hardest to connect us with violence, and failed. They tried to make it sound sinister that we’re fans of the International Antifascist Defence fund, which covers emergency, medical, and legal bills for antifascists. That was the best they could come up with.

Today we learned that our board member lost their lawsuit against the Kays on a technicality. The judge found that he wasn’t the party they attacked. We were. It was frustrating sitting on the sidelines watching the Kays, in our opinion, mislead the court about antifascism.

If we had standing, we would have torn their testimony apart because the Kays only have a Fox News level understanding of antifascism. They still think it’s an organization, or a group, or an organized group, or something. They don’t know.

The Kays admit that most of what they know about “Antifa” comes from Andy Ngo, a far-right propagandist who was caught on video hanging out w/ Patriot Prayer as they planned to attack antifascists. He left that out of his reporting, and blamed antifa. thedailybeast.com/andy-ngo-who-b…

Andy Ngo is the least credible person to ask about antifascism, and the Kays might be a close second. (They had planned on calling both Andy Ngo and Caryma Sa’d as witnesses, but neither, ultimately, were called). rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Today, we also learned that a neo-Nazi paralegal we reported to the Law Society of Ontario is going to face some consequences. Our story on ‘Red Serge’ will be out soon. Our work continues, and there's not a thing the Kays can do about it.

If you also think that the internet would be a nicer place if Jon Kay would just delete his Twitter account, please consider supporting us at antihate.ca/donate. Bella ciao!