Who Is Othman Mekhloufi, the Far-Right Poster Behind OneBC’s Strife?

As the far-right party OneBC implodes, accusations are flying across social media — and many of them involve a 22-year-old Vancouver man and OneBC staffer who once claimed to work for the Donald Trump administration and has posted a variety of antisemitic and white nationalist content online.

In a Dec. 14 post on X, Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie said she demanded Othman Mekhloufi be fired when she discovered “values Mekhloufi has expressed publicly, online and offline, that are absolutely incompatible with my personal and OneBC values.”

On Dec. 15, Brodie told the Canadian Press that she was particularly offended by the staffer’s views on Jewish people, calling them “disgusting” and antisemitic. She did not specify the exact statements that she objected to and the news story did not name Mekhloufi, although Brodie had named him in her Dec. 14 X post.

Readers can scroll to the bottom of this story to see a response from Mekhloufi, sent to The Tyee four weeks after the publication of this story.

OneBC splintered from the Conservative Party of BC in June after Brodie was ejected from the Conservative caucus for mocking residential school survivors. Brodie was joined by former B.C. Conservative Tara Armstrong, MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, to create a new party.

Since its formation, the party has aggressively pursued a far-right agenda, becoming known for denying abuses that occurred at residential schools in Canada and for opposing the recognition of Indigenous rights in British Columbia. The party has also called for a halt to all immigration to Canada and tried to introduce bills to stop diversity, equity and inclusion measures; land acknowledgments at schools; and gender-affirming care for youth.

Using taxpayer money, the party recently released a short film called Making a Killing, which accused First Nations governments of deliberately lying about unmarked graves being found at former residential school grounds. The Union of BC Indian Chiefs called the film “racist misinformation.”

“Calls to exhume physical remains of children are a red herring and blatantly disregard the abundance of well-documented archaeological, archival and testimonial evidence which demonstrate that First Nations children died under abusive conditions at Residential Schools across Canada,” UBCIC’s statement said, in part.

Over Dec. 13 and 14, OneBC split apart under a torrent of accusations. Brodie, the leader, was supported by staffers Masha Kleiner, Wyatt Claypool and Kris Eriksen.

On the other side were Armstrong and staffers Tim Thielmann and Paul Ratchford (both of whom previously ran unsuccessfully for the Conservatives).

The Tyee asked for comment from all of those people, including Mekhloufi, but did not hear back by press time. Four weeks after publication of this story, Mekhloufi sent The Tyee a number of responses, which we have added to this story.

According to Brodie’s statement, the rift happened because she called for Mekhloufi to be fired over his social media comments. According to Thielmann, he and Ratchford wanted to mentor Mekhloufi instead of just firing him.

“Did Paul and I advise against Dallas firing Othman, a 22-year-old brown kid who was being made out to be a ‘white supremacist’?” Thielmann wrote. “Yes.”

Armstrong wrote that she had lost faith in Brodie’s leadership.

“Differences of opinion — particularly surrounding a junior staffer — were not the core issue. What truly mattered was how those challenges were handled: whether there was openness, communication, empathy and a willingness to listen, adapt and lead by example.”

While Brodie claimed in her statement that Ratchford and Mekhloufi had been in contact with the executive team of the B.C. Conservatives, a party spokesperson told The Tyee that had never happened.

Who is Othman Mekhloufi?

Mekhloufi attended University Hill Secondary in Vancouver, according to a source who went to the same school. An archived link shows he was active in debate club.

Mekhloufi has already received scrutiny for the content of his X account, @OthmanOnX. The account has now been made private, although it still includes a link to Mekhloufi’s website.

In January 2025, when the account was still public, some of its claims came to the attention of U.S. Democrat activist and political candidate Will Stancil. He took a stab at researching some of the account’s claims.

At that time, @OthmanOnX was posting photos of the White House and talking about being a member of the then-new Trump administration. But Stancil quickly realized the account holder seemed to be in Vancouver, based on photos included in some posts.

The account posted a number of comments that could be considered antisemitic or misogynistic. Many of the comments could be interpreted as both holding and mocking extreme beliefs, a technique known as “irony poisoning,” where commentators claim they don’t actually believe the extreme statements they’re making.

On Jan. 28, the account posted: “I’m sitting in public and I hear these two 20 year old girls (7.5/10 average) talking about ‘Israel’ and the ‘JQ.’ Naturally I approach because there’s no way it’s mainstream, right? Then they started talking about hyperborean and Aryanism and /pol/. One of them knew about BAP. WTF.”

(“JQ” is “Jewish question.” “BAP” stands for “Bronze Age Pervert,” a popular internet figure for the far right whom the Atlantic described as “an internet personality who espouses fascism, racism, and bodybuilding” in 2023. “Hyperborean” refers to a Greek myth that has been woven into far-right misogynistic narratives.)

In a response sent to The Tyee four weeks after publication, Mekhloufi said this post was not antisemitic and he was simply relaying an overheard conversation. In his correspondence with The Tyee, Mekhloufi also called “Aryanism” an example of an “edgy idea.” Aryanism is “the doctrine popularized by Nazism that the so-called Aryan peoples possess superior capacities for government, social organization, and civilization.”

Evan Balgord, the executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, reviewed a selection of posts from Mekhloufi’s X account provided to him by The Tyee. Balgord said Mekhloufi often writes his posts in a joking tone that allows for “plausible deniability.”

But Balgord noted that numerous posts do express unequivocally racist views.

“He has multiple posts that deal in the racist trope that regardless of other factors, some groups of human beings having inherently lower IQ or being inherently less civilized or violent than other groups of people on the basis of race or ethnicity,” Balgord said.

Mekhloufi also repeatedly calls for deportations of immigrants and at times specific ethnic groups.

“White People are capable of this; we’re capable of prioritizing positive sum growth over zero sum games. We pick up litter that isn’t ours. We form high trust nations,” the @OthmanOnX account wrote in an undated post Stancil posted as a screenshot.

Another reply reads: “I’ll tell you what you’d love: interior British Columbia. All white old stock Anglos. Beautiful, quiet, low crime, high trust. Go to places like Nelson.”

Othman’s posts also show him repeatedly using the phrase “JQ” in a joking manner. In another post, he shared a screenshot that said “Are you sending the children white girl sonnenrad TikTok edits” with the comment “My wife caught me. What do I do?”

The sonnenrad, or “black sun,” is a Nazi symbol commonly used by neo-Nazis.

“He uses terminology that normal people don't use, and online you can see that he is regularly in conversation with other people that I think it would be fair to characterize as white supremacists and neo-Nazis,” Balgord said. “So he exists in this far-right ecosystem where this kind of terminology is thrown around.”

The Tyee obtained another batch of screenshots from August and September 2025 from a blogger called Canadian Influence Watchdog. In the posts, the @OthmanOnX account said all Democrats need to be “locked up” for the assassination of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk.

The account also called repeatedly for “accelerationism.” The broad theory argues that rapid change — often technological — helps bring needed change.

But extremists, including white supremacists, have interpreted it to argue that violence is needed to destabilize society in order to cause a “race war” and, eventually, create a white ethno-state.

Although one of the posts starts with the words “Accelerationism does work,” four weeks after publication of this story, Mekhloufi told The Tyee his X post was meant to be critical of the concept. We’ve added the post below. The Tyee notes that in the post, Mekhloufi says a “decline” in the United States started in 1865, the year the American Civil War — a conflict that brought about the end of slavery — ended.

Some of the screenshots The Tyee obtained show @OthmanOnX replying to @captive_dreamer, an influential far-right X account that Elon Musk and JD Vance have interacted with. In March, @captive_dreamer was identified as Geoff Martin, a man with roots in the Metro Vancouver area.

As accusations continued to fly across X on Dec. 15, OneBC staffer Claypool claimed Mekhloufi had made extremist statements.

“Othman literally talked about blood and soil politics and eugenics right in front of you in the office,” Claypool wrote. (“Blood and soil” is a reference to a Nazi slogan.)

Thielmann disagreed, saying Mekhloufi had “expressly endorsed civic nationalism — not blood and soil nationalism — both in internal chats and in the office.”

The heated X argument continued:

“He sat down and explained his appreciation for the philosophy of Julius Evola and Bronze Age Pervert to you right in front of other members of staff,” Claypool wrote. “And was explaining how his favourite philosopher (the Bronze Age Pervert guy) is a ‘true Nazi’ and understands what Hitler really thought.”

By end of day Monday, it was still unclear who exactly was in control of OneBC, with both sides claiming legitimacy. The OneBC Caucus X account and Facebook page are still being controlled by Brodie and Claypool, while the party’s X account is being controlled by the Armstrong camp.

Julius Evola was a fascist Italian philosopher whose ideas influenced Nazi party officials. His work has been called “stunningly racist and antisemitic” and is still influential today for the extreme right.

In an interview with The Tyee, Claypool said the examples he posted on X were not the only time Mekhloufi made extreme comments in OneBC’s office in the legislature. Claypool said that when Brodie made the comment to the Canadian Press regarding being concerned about Mekhloufi’s comments about Jewish people, she was referring to the post about overhearing “two 20 year old girls (7.5/10 average) talking about ‘Israel’ and the ‘JQ.’”

“When you put ‘JQ’ into your tweet, you know what you’re talking about,” Claypool said.

Four weeks after the original publication of this article, Mekhloufi sent The Tyee an email saying he is of Middle Eastern descent, is not a white nationalist and does not hold antisemitic views. He said his post that included the phrases “JQ” and “Aryanism” reported an overheard conversation and do not indicate he himself has antisemitic views. Mekhloufi also said that he supports Israel.

Mekhloufi said he had never worked for the Trump administration and he said that several posts, where he wrote in the style of a belligerent Trump staffer, were not meant to be taken seriously.

Mekhloufi sent The Tyee several examples of his X posts where he urged “groypers” to “stop blaming everything on the Jews” and defined a “Heritage American” as including “the descendants of African slaves” and people with Italian, German, “Anglo” and Native American heritage. Groypers are a loose group of white nationalists.

Mekhloufi said these posts were examples of him pushing back against racist and antisemitic views.

Readers can view a summary of Mekhloufi’s X posts here.

* Story updated on Feb. 5, 2026, at 8:56 p.m. with substantial revisions after Othman Mekhloufi responded to the initial article.