A BBC investigation has revealed that the company that provides security at humanitarian aid distribution points in Gaza has hired members of an American motorcycle gang with a history of hostility towards the Palestinians as its armed security guard Islam.

The BBC has confirmed the identities of 10 members of the Infidels motorcycle club working in Gaza for UG Solutions (UGS), a private security company that provides services to sites operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Trust (GHT), where hundreds of civilians foraging for food have been killed amid chaos and gunfire in recent months.

The BBC has learned that seven members of this group hold senior positions in the controversial humanitarian operation backed by Israel and US President Donald Trump.

UGS defended its employees’ qualifications for these jobs, stating that it does not exclude anyone for “personal interests or affiliations that have no bearing on job performance.”

Hate Speech

The Gaza Humanitarian Trust declared that it has a “zero tolerance policy towards any discriminatory or hostile attitude or behavior.”

The Infidels MC organization was founded in Founded in 2006 by US Army veterans of the Iraq War, its members consider themselves modern-day Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as a symbol, a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem.

The organization currently spreads hate speech against Muslims on its Facebook page and previously hosted a pork barbecue “in defiance” of the holy month of Ramadan.

“Putting the Infidels motorcycle club in charge of distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the Ku Klux Klan in charge of distributing aid in Sudan. It makes no sense,” said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a leading Muslim civil rights organization in the United States.

“This will inevitably lead to violence, and that’s precisely what we’ve seen in Gaza,” he notes.

The gang’s leader, Johnny “Taz” Mulford, is a former U.S. Army sergeant who was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, theft, and making false statements to military authorities. He is currently the project coordinator for UG Solutions in Gaza.

We contacted Infidels MC by email for comment. In response, Mulford instructed other leaders of the bikie gang not to reply, but by pressing the “Reply All” button, he included the BBC in the reply, thus inadvertently revealing the email addresses and names of other Infidels MC members, some of whom were working in Gaza.

After cross-checking the names with public information about the Infidels MC leadership and with testimony from people who worked with them at UG Solutions, we have identified 10 Infidels MC members whom Mulford recruited to work with him in Gaza.

In addition to Mulford, we have identified three senior Infidels MC members who also hold senior positions in the UGS operation in Gaza:

Confidential documents, open source information, and testimony from former UGS contractors have allowed us to confirm the identities of six additional members of the Infidels bikie organization contracted to work in Gaza. Three of them are leaders or deputy leaders of the company's armed security teams.

Jarrett, Siebe, and Lofton did not respond to requests for comment.

UGS told the BBC that it conducts extensive background checks and only hires vetted staff. However, media reports indicate that Jarrett was arrested two years ago in the United States for drunk driving and was charged with the same offense about a decade ago. It is unknown whether either case resulted in a conviction.

UG Solutions founder and CEO Jameson Govoni was arrested earlier this year in North Carolina for allegedly being involved in a hit-and-run, according to court documents.

Govoni, who is based in the United States and is not a member of Infidels MC, declined to comment.

Recruiting for Gaza

So far, Mulford was the only UG Solutions contractor identified as a member of Infidels. The BBC investigation reveals the company’s widespread practice of hiring members of this motorcycle gang, particularly for higher-paid positions on UGS’s armed security teams. Social media posts show that in May, just two weeks before traveling to Gaza, Mulford attempted to recruit US military veterans who followed him on Facebook, inviting anyone who “could still shoot, move, and communicate.” In total, at least 40 of the 320 people hired by UG Solutions to work in Gaza came from the Infidels MC organization, according to estimates by a former contractor. UG Solutions pays each contractor $980 a day, including expenses, and $1,580 a day to team leaders at GHF’s “secure distribution points,” according to documents seen by the BBC. Josh Miller, one of the security team leaders in Gaza, posted a photo of a group of contractors in Gaza with a banner reading, “Make Gaza Great Again!” The banner features the logo of Miller’s company, which sells T-shirts and other clothing, including one with the slogan “embrace violence” and another that reads, “Surf all day, fire rockets all night. Summer in Gaza 2025.” His company also posted a video online depicting gun violence, urging people to shoot criminals with the message, “Remember. Always shoot until they no longer pose a threat!” Miller has the word “Crusader” tattooed on his fingers and the number “1095” on his thumbs. The number refers to the year that Catholic Church leader Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade, calling Muslims a “vile race.” Miller did not respond to requests for comment.

A post on the Infidels MC Facebook page, where caps bearing the number “1095” are sold, explains that this number represents the start of the Crusades, “a military campaign by Western European forces to reconquer Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim rule.”

The phrase “Holy Land” refers to the area that currently encompasses Israel and the Palestinian territories.

“Celebrating the massacre of Muslims”

Johnny Mulford, who in addition to leading the gang is listed as the legal representative of a Florida company called Infidels MC, has the date 1095 tattooed on his chest. He also has a Crusader cross tattooed on his right forearm and another on his left arm, along with the word “Infidels.”

“When we see today’s Islamophobes celebrating the year 1095, celebrating the Crusades, they are celebrating the wholesale slaughter of Muslims, the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from the holy city of Jerusalem,” said Mitchell of the US-based Muslim civil rights organization CAIR.

Among the anti-Islamic stances expressed by the gang was a flyer advertising a Ramadan pork barbecue, which the BBC found on an archived website. The flyer read: “In defiance of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan… we invite you to attend the Colorado Springs chapter of Infidels MC Motorcycle Party and Pork BBQ.”

The flyer also depicted a woman wearing a burqa, which appeared to be ripped from the neck down, exposing her chest.

The Infidels MC Facebook page has hosted clearly Islamophobic discussions. In 2020, the club shared a link to a satirical and false article claiming that four American Democratic politicians, two of them Muslims, wanted the Bible to be considered hate speech.

The Infidels MC website used to display the skull logo of Marvel comic book character the Punisher, a symbol appropriated by white supremacist groups, with the inscription “kafir” in Arabic characters, meaning “unbeliever” or “infidel.”

Since the opening of aid distribution centers in Gaza in late May, scenes of chaos and danger have been frequent at these locations. As of September 2, 1,135 people, including children, women, and men, were killed near humanitarian aid distribution centers while searching for food, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

According to the UN, most of the deaths appear to have been at the hands of Israeli security forces. The Israeli military said the incidents in which civilians were injured or killed while seeking help are being investigated by the relevant authorities.