Ruben Israel Chavez

This page was updated on: July 9, 2018, 10:30am EST.

Bible Believers

Ruben Israel Chavez from Los Angeles, California is a prominent American member of the extremists. He is involved in ongoing training and recruitment for Canadian affiliates of the extremists. Chavez claims to be employed as a contractor. Chavez leads the faction called Bible Believers, a hate group who routinely target Pride events across Canada and the US. They are on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s HateWATCH. His YouTube channel, Bible Believers, gives a fairly clear picture of Chavez’s activity over the years. On this channel he repeatedly brags about being arrested and detained multiple times in the US. He has specifically noted that he has been arrested in New Orleans. We do not know if Chavez has been detained or arrested in Canada.

Pride Haldimand-Norfolk in Dunnville, Ontario

Ruben Israel Chavez, along with a large group of the extremists – consisting of both American and local agitators – attacked the 2nd annual Pride Haldimand-Norfolk on May 26, 2018.

dunville-camera — **May 26, 2018**: Ruben Israel Chavez (left) with OPP officer (middle) and Jesse Morrell (right) in Dunnville, Ontario during Pride Haldimand-Norfolk.

34015570_217097292402913_1505446454552952832_n — May 26, 2018: Pride Haldimand-Norfolk main stage area.

34119116_217099819069327_2669889604068311040_n — Ken Hancock, LGBTQ activist speaking at Pride Haldimand-Norfolk.

caledonia-centre — May 27, 2018: Ruben Israel Chavez and Bible Believers at Haldimand County Caledonia Centre, Ontario, Canada. Photo source: Bible Believers on Facebook

The day after the attack at Pride Haldimand-Norfolk in Dunnville – Ruben Israel Chavez and Bible Believers went to the Haldimand County Office in Caledonia, Ontario. Eyewitness accounts say that Bible Believers got a hold of the home addresses of all the people who had organized and obtained permits for Pride Haldimand-Norfolk. Chavez and his posse caused enough disruption that police were called.

ruben-israel-carehome — May 27, 2018: Ruben Israel Chavez approaches festival organizer’s room in care home.

Bible Believers Target Pride Organizers & Care Home

With information obtained at the permit office, Chavez and 4 other extremists went to the care home of Pride Haldimand-Norfolk organizer Ken Hancock, where they uttered threats and violently targeted Hancock. We do not know if any charges have been pressed.

Bible Believers Facebook Page and Photo Repository

To date, Bible Believers has uploaded over 200 photos of their attack on Pride Haldimand-Norfolk on their Facebook page. We presume these photos have been taken by Dean Saxton. Many images of pride-goers have been uploaded and made public, including many photos of children/minors who attended the event.

If you see photos of yourself or of your kids on the Bible Believers Facebook page and want them taken down – you can report abuse directly to Facebook without having to directly interact with Bible Believers.

Here is a Guide to Reporting Abuse written by the Facebook Help Center.

Dean-Saxton-Dunnville — May 26, 2018: Dean Saxton acting as photographer and videographer for Bible Believers.

-vanride-ruben-johnwilliams-jessemorrell — Ruben Israel Chavez, John Williams and Jesse Morrell traveling in a van together presumably to either Pride Haldimand Norfolk in Dunnville, Ontario or going to Anime North in Toronto.

Official Street Preachers Blog

Chavez’s blog, Official Street Preachers, wrote this blog post about the May 2018 attacks in Canada which describe the Pride Event in Dunnville, “street preaching” in Hamilton and targeting Anime North in Toronto. Below is an excerpt which specifically describes the Pride Haldimand-Norfolk attack:

OHHhh Canada – June 1, 2018 – by Ruben Chavez:

“The reason we landed was to preach against a sodomite event in this very small town named Dunnville or as we from the U.S.eh call it, ‘dungville’

Like most sodomite parades they start off with a gathering at a local park, then get a permit to march around the park and within a few years march and parade down Main Street.

These events of cancer are expected in large cities but not small towns and so we came for a couple of reasons.

Reason 1:

Last year they attacked one street preacher and ripped his banner down

Reason 2:

This is the early stage and we need to stop the cancer before it spreads

Maybe Dunnville should learn that we have shut down sodomite parades in the States and a Muslim event in Dearborn MI.

We preached against that event because that city arrested Christians for passing out tracts against Islam and for that we showed up.

A riot happened, a couple arrests and after a court case that city NEVER had a Muslim event there again. Keep in mind, the city is mainly Muslim, the police were Muslim, the media was Muslim and the city attorney and judges were…..if you said Muslim, you were right. Nevertheless, God used us to SHUT THAT EVENT DOWN!!!

In Canada we worked with likeminded street preachers from Toronto and our host Church from Hamilton that housed us and fed us. “

Bible Believers on SPLC HateWATCH

Bible Believers and has been placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s HATEWATCH for targeting Dearborn, Michigan’s annual Arab International Festival in 2012 – an event which ran for 18 years and drew thousands of people. The festival had to shut down due to their insurance fees becoming too expensive due to the attacks of multiple agitators including Chavez’s group – Bible Believers.

ruben-pighead — 2012: Ruben Israel Chavez carries a pighead on a spike at the Arab International Festival in Dearborn Michigan festival, presumably to offend any Muslims who may be in attendance as well as act as an agitator to incite racism and Islamaphobia.

SPLC, June 18, 2012

Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., were once again targeted for their beliefs on Friday when a group of protesters calling themselves the “Bible Believers” confronted celebrants at the city’s annual Arab International Festival with a pig’s head on a spike and signs decrying Islam as a false religion, the Detroit Free Press reports.

In addition to the pig’s head – presumably intended to offend observant Muslims, who do not eat pork – Bible Believers reportedly carried signs calling Islam “a religion of blood and murder” and describing the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a “liar,” “false prophet,” “murderer” and “child-molesting pervert.”

Source: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2012/06/18/armed-pig%E2%80%99s-head-christians-confront-michigan-muslims

Actively Recruiting

Bible Believers actively recruits. In the following video, Chavez talks about new recruit, Alina, in Chicago being a street preacher and being setup with a new business.

Social Media Sources

Chavez has at least 2 YouTube Channels associated with Official Street Preachers.

Ruben Israel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/rubenisrael

Bible Believers on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhNsDsr-B5VVJeYXe1fpQA

Darrel Hall on YouTube runs a Bible Believer propoganda channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zci2gBiTvuMwd8Owr3xPA

Chave’z email address: irebukeu@earthlink.net

GoFundMe
Chavez is currently fundraising to go to Russia. But not anymore – we reached out to GoFund Me and got it shut down!
https://www.gofundme.com/5n819d4

According to Chavez’s website, his mailing address is P.O. Box 1233 Norwalk, CA 90650

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ruben.israel.5
https://www.facebook.com/israel.ruben.98

American Activities

According to Chavez’s channel he has been active as a self-proclaimed “street preacher” since the 1980s. He appears to be a key figure at a controversial “conference” in Cincinatti, Ohio held annually by SOAPA – Street and Open Air Preachers Association – whose sole demographic appears to be angry men with signs.

Chavez has also targeted Pride Events and spread hate propaganda across the US, including but not limited to: Utah Pride, West Hollywood Pride, and Pheonix Pride in 2018.

Video caption: Rueben Israel Chavez who attacked Dunnville, Ontario can be seen at Utah Pride in front with the Trust Jesus shirt.

If you watch the Utah Pride video (above), please take note of the very young girl in the fluorescent green shirt with braids underneath the banner that says HOMO SEX IS SIN. Their signs also say that sodomy – their word for gay/queer sex – is worthy of death.

As the video progresses, this young girl covers her ears to shield herself from the loud shrill noise of the sound amplification. It’s heartbreaking to watch a young child be a) Put in a stressful and potentially dangerous situation. b) be socialized to hate people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

VICE Profile

VICELAND has done a feature on Chavez where he is seen telling his male followers to keep provoking people – at all costs – even if his followers are severely injured. Chavez has no problem with inciting a riot and doesn’t care if anyone is injured including his followers, members of the public, or law enforcement. Any violence that occurs gives him video footage he uses as branded content for his YouTube channel and blog.

Excerpt from VICELAND feature with correspondant Jamal Maddix and one of Chavez’s male followers:

Maddix: “What made you join this church?”

Follower: “It’s not a church. It’s just a group of men.”

Maddix: “What made you join this group of men?”

Follower: “Because I want to tell people the good news.”

RUBEN ISRAEL - license plate — Chavez featured in an Aljazeera documentary on Islamaphobia. He is loading propaganda banners into an Oldsmobile van license plate DXZ-2225. “Jesus is coming…” printed on the window.

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