14 Facts About Neil Erikson

Neil Erikson espouses the antisemitic canard and Jewish conspiracy theory of cultural Marxism.

Neil Erikson is one of the founders or leaders of the far-right neo-Nazi United Patriots Front and the Lads Society.

Neil Erikson has been charged and convicted of multiple offences including assault, inciting contempt against Muslims, stalking, affray and riotous behaviour, making threats to prevent a clergyman discharging duties, and disturbing religious worship.

Charges were laid after Neil Erikson called Rabbi Dovid Gutnick, threatening and insulting him.

Neil Erikson spoke of circumcisions, blood money and Jewish sidelocks, and told Gutnick he knew his location and was coming to get him unless he paid.

Magistrate Donna Bakos said Neil Erikson's calls were motivated by prejudice and found he had little remorse for his crime.

In 2018, Neil Erikson was charged with making threats to prevent a clergyman discharging duties and disturbing religious worship, after he interrupted a church service at the Gosford Anglican Church by marching into the church dressed as Jesus Christ, holding a whip.

In 2018, Neil Erikson attended a rally in Perth run by Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Ian Goodenough in support of White South African farmers wanting to immigrate owing to South African farm attacks, a cause drumming up sympathy on the far-right, based partly on the White genocide conspiracy theory.

Also in 2018, Neil Erikson attended a Gold Coast "recruitment event" for the Liberal National Party of Queensland, for which he claims his flights were paid by someone else.

In 2019, Neil Erikson was involved in an altercation between Queensland Senator Fraser Anning and a 17-year-old boy.

Neil Erikson was recorded restraining the 17-year-old after the boy crushed an egg on the back of Anning's head while he was speaking at a political meeting in the Melbourne suburb of Moorabbin.

On 11 May 2021, Neil Erikson was sentenced to one month jail at the Melbourne Magistrates Court, after refusing a community correction order and de-radicalisation program.

Neil Erikson lodged an appeal against the sentence in the County Court, which was scheduled for August 2021.

On 30 July 2021, Neil Erikson was sentenced in the Melbourne Magistrates Court to 10 weeks jail for hurling homophobic abuse in a church in Hawthorn in May 2019.