Avi Yemini | |
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 Yemini in 2022 | |
| Born | Avraham Shalom Waks[1] |
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| Education | Yeshivah College, Melbourne[1] |
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| Employer | Rebel News (since 2020) |
| Political party | Liberty Alliance (2018–2019)[1][2] |
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| Allegiance |  Israel |
| Service |  Israeli Ground Forces |
| Years of service | 2004–2007 |
| Unit | Golani Brigade |
| Website | followavi |
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Avraham Shalom Yemini (né Waks) is an Australian-Israeli far-right provocateur and commentator.[3] Since 2020 he has worked as the Australian correspondent for Rebel News, a Canadian far-right website.[1][4] Yemini has been involved in numerous cases of litigation, initiated both by him and against him.
Yemini grew up in a large family in Melbourne, Victoria, and attended various Orthodox Jewish schools in Melbourne and overseas.[1] When he was 16 he became addicted to heroin and at the age of 19 joined the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in an attempt to get off drugs.[1] He later opened up and ran two gyms in the Melbourne area, both of which were sold in 2018.
In 2018, Yemini unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the Australian Liberty Alliance in the Victorian state election.[1]
- ^ a b c d e f g Elliott, Tim (18 February 2023). "'He's exploiting people who are genuinely scared': Avi Yemini and the art of outrage". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ Martin, Lisa (15 November 2018). "Victorian Liberal party candidate asked to resign over 'anti-Muslim' video". Guardian Australia. Archived from the original on 31 July 2023. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
- ^ Far-right:
- McGowan, Michael (24 September 2021). "Workers' rights or the far right: who was behind Melbourne's pandemic protests?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 24 December 2023. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
- Gillespie, Eden (18 November 2024). "Queensland Muslims ask for police protection over New Zealand far-right activist's pro-Israel protest". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 26 March 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- "Australian far-right figure Avi Yemini gets visa to visit Brian Tamaki in New Zealand". The New Zealand Herald. 21 June 2024. Archived from the original on 21 June 2024. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
- Estcourt, David (21 June 2022). "Far-right commentator Yemini plans more court action to identify PRGuy". The Age. Archived from the original on 24 June 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- Brophy, David (2021). China Panic: Australia's Alternative to Paranoia and Pandering. Schwartz Books Pty. Limited. ISBN 9781743821497.
- Napier-Raman, Kishor; Towell, Noel (29 November 2023). "Perrottet rewrites history in chat with controversial far-right figure". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 20 April 2024. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
- ^ Rebel News:
- Perry, Barbara; Scrivens, Ryan (19 August 2019). Right-Wing Extremism in Canada. Springer International. p. 37. ISBN 978-3-030-25169-7. Archived from the original on 2 May 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2020 – via Google Books.
In 2015, he established Rebel Media, a far-right outlet that regularly features global and domestic "stars" of the nationalist movement.
- Titley, Gavan (2 July 2020). "The distribution of nationalist and racist discourse" (PDF). Journal of Multicultural Discourses. 15 (3). Taylor & Francis: 7. doi:10.1080/17447143.2020.1780245. S2CID 221521303. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
Far-right Twitter accounts come and go, often generating significant traction without any obvious relation to organised movements. As a stage of his reinvention of self after the EDL, its leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ('Tommy Robinson') reinvented himself as a journalist, working for the Canadian far-right media company Rebel Media.
- Mirrlees, Tanner (3 August 2018). "The Alt-right's Discourse on "Cultural Marxism": A Political Instrument of Intersectional Hate". Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice. 39 (1). Mount Saint Vincent University: 61. ISSN 1715-0698. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
The Rebel Media, a far-right news organization, published articles by Canadian alt-right propagandists such as: "Want to sop cultural Marxist indoctrination? Cut public funding of universities" (Nicholas 2017); "Social justice is socialism in disguise" (Goldy 2016); and "How progressives use our kids for Marxist social experiments" (Goldy 2017).
- Perry, Barbara; Mirrlees, Tanner; Scrivens, Ryan (27 February 2019). "The Dangers of Porous Borders". Journal of Hate Studies. 14 (1). Gonzaga University: 61. doi:10.33972/jhs.124. Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
Far-right Canadian media outlets, for instance, have bombarded its subscribers with all kinds of pro-Trump, racist and xenophobic dialogue, both before and after Trump's victory. Rebel Media, a popular far-right online media platform run by Ezra Levant, a controversial Canadian far-right political activist, writer and broadcaster, has been an outright supporter of Trump, publishing countless extreme-right leaning articles on why to support him.
- Zhang, Xinyi; Davis, Mark (7 June 2022). "E-extremism: A conceptual framework for studying the online far right". New Media & Society. 26 (5). SAGE: 2954–2970. doi:10.1177/14614448221098360. ISSN 1461-4448. S2CID 249482748. Archived from the original on 1 October 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
Beyond US-based far-right news websites such as Breitbart, Infowars and Epoch Times, other alternative online media outlets include Australia-based XYZ and The Unshackled, Canada-based Rebel News and UK-based Politicalite.com and PoliticalUK.co.uk, just to name a few, which operate as far-right metapolitical channels and counter-publics that strive to influence mainstream culture and discourse (Holt, 2019).
- Gilligan, Andrew (5 August 2018). "Tommy Robinson winds up bigots and the cash floods in". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 3 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
All four, including Robinson himself, were employees of The Rebel Media, a Toronto-based far-right website.
- Scott, Mark (16 May 2017). "U.S. Far-Right Activists Promote Hacking Attack Against Macron". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
Jack Posobiec, a journalist with the far-right news outlet The Rebel, was the first to use the hashtag with a link to the hacked documents online, which was then shared more widely by WikiLeaks.
- Craig, Sean (19 August 2017). "A fight over a four-bedroom house: The Rebel Media meltdown and the full recording at the centre of the controversy". Global News. Archived from the original on 3 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
With politicians including Conservative heavyweights Andrew Scheer and Brian Jean swearing off appearances and a raft of exits by prominent contributors, Ezra Levant's far-right video and commentary network The Rebel spent the last week in damage control, trying to distance itself from the extremist alt-right movement whose values many have alleged the site's content too often sympathized with.
- Perry, Barbara; Scrivens, Ryan (19 August 2019). Right-Wing Extremism in Canada. Springer International. p. 37. ISBN 978-3-030-25169-7. Archived from the original on 2 May 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2020 – via Google Books.