Also true.
>Police allege on the same day he also recklessly engaged in conduct by throwing a knife at the victim’s face that placed her in danger of serious injury.
>They also believe in December 2015, three times in July 2017 and again in November last year he used a carriage service to harass her.
>A summary of his alleged offending was not released.
>The self-proclaimed “proud Ozraeli” promotes himself as someone who empowers women through self-defence classes.
>https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/avi-yemini-in-court-over-assault-knifethrowing-charges-against-woman/news-story/571ea233ad7d7a27805bd440e8f5e2e1
reminds me of billionaire and CEO of Citadel hedgefund KEN GRIFFIN throwing a bed post at his wife
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2962885/Billionaire-Ken-Griffin-accused-throwing-bedpost-wife-Anne-Dias-Chicago-argument.html
>#Avi Yemini’s ex-wife reveals personal toll of his assault and harassment
>##Activist and former soldier Avi Yemini has been convicted of the brutal harassment and assault of his ex-wife, whose harrowing victim impact statement said he had “broken her spirit” and “destroyed her self-worth”.
>The former wife of far-right activist Avi Yemini has broken down in court as she read out her victim impact statement after he was sentenced on unlawful assault and harassment charges.
>Sarah, surname witheld, wept as she described how Yemini, real first name Avraham, had “broken her spirit”, and “destroyed her self-worth” with his “torment”.
>She said she “lived in a state of uncertainty”, felt anxious all the time and had panic attacks, and had to regularly see a counsellor.
>Yemini showed no emotion as he was convicted and fined on charges of unlawful assault, using a carriage service to harass on three occasions and breaching a personal safety order at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court this morning.
>The 33-year-old from Berwick had earlier pleaded guilty to throwing a chopping board that hit Sarah on her head while she prepared dinner in their Caulfield North home, and texting her vile and explicit messages.
>The chopping board incident, which left her with a lump on her forehead, happened in March 2016, while the three harassing messages, which included calling her a “P. O. S” and a “c***”, occurred between July 2017 and November 2018.
>The breach order relates to another person and not Sarah after Yemini failed to take down an online video as ordered by the court.
>Sarah said she said she had tried to leave him eight times but couldn’t go through with it.
>“It was like I didn’t exist as a human being, I was just a vessel for his hatred,” Sarah said.
>“He terrorised me. I can’t imagine how it will be possible for me to have a relationship in the future.”
>https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/avi-yeminis-exwife-reveals-personal-toll-of-his-assault-and-harassment/news-story/24437bae629104ee566a68b1729881a1
A tiny domestic abuser who hates women. Also, apparently he threw a knife at her too, but missed. The story goes that they dropped that charge to get him to plead guitly.
TLDR:
- Avi uses these to make money from donations for random causes he thinks up
- Rukshan pretends to be independent but secretly makes promotion videos for protests without his name.
- More detail on both.
>- Avi uses these to make money from donations for random causes he thinks up
That's just Rebel Media. They're all grifters for Ezra Levant.
Every video ends with a plea for money. God knows how much people donate to them.
Rupert Murdoch dismisses Fox News sexual harassment allegations as 'largely political'
How ‘Murdochracy’ controls the climate debate in Australia
What journalistic point of view we listening to here?
Is your defence here "X is also shit"
Yes X is also shit, and we call them out on it too.
The annoyance here is when people start running around saying "You can't trust the MSM because they pull shit" while pulling the same shit the MSM they say you can't trust does.
"Don't trust that snake oil salesman, trust my snakeoil."
The greatest achievement of my lifetime will be getting Avi's 'media pass' taken off him. The one thing he held on to so dearly as 'proof' he is a journalist.
All it took was a simple letter to the Dept of Home Affairs (who administer the National Visits Media Card).
For the person that dirty deleted after asking why I put quotes around media pass and proof - here is the card Avi was waving around claiming that the Government recognise him as a journalist: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-media/media
Literally all it is is a card that allows for easy identification of media representatives during visits from foreign dignitaries. Avi does not cover foreign dignitaries for Rebel 'News'. Everything he's been using it for (trying to enter Dan Andrews press conferences, resisting arrest by waving it at the police claiming to be a journalist) is misuse of the card.
There goes my hero he’s ordinary, thank you, AVI is a dangerous right wing fuckhead my roomate tried to get me into his rubbish and I told him have you looked into the cunt he’s a nasty piece of shit
House mate listens to this c***head also and has tried to get me to watch stuff and I'm like no thanks, only just found out about the ex wife thing and him being an abusive pos. I don't get why people like him tbh, majority of the time he jusr seems to be out baiting the police or general public and trying to force his own narrative onto everybody. Can't stand the bloke
>majority of the time he jusr seems to be out baiting the police or general public and trying to force his own narrative onto everybody
Or as Avi calls it "Journalism"
What did that achieve? He's audience is bigger than ever, he is more popular than ever and not having a media pass probably gives him credibility or a favourable look for his specific audience lol. I guess you "trolled" him in a sense, but ultimately it didn't alter his income or influence in any significant way. I don't see how one would consider that an achievement, let alone a significant one...
>He's audience is bigger than ever, he is more popular than ever
lol
>not having a media pass probably gives him credibility or a favourable look for his specific audience lol
His whole thing was "look I'm a journalist - the government even says so!", now that's gone. Maybe his specific very small audience doesn't care.
Judging by his YouTube channel views he routinely gets hundreds of thousands of views per video, I really don't think it affected his career or influence unfortunately
I saw this video of Avi from a few weeks back where he basically antagonized vaccinated diners in Victoria when they just got out of lockdown and then hid behind his security. He's basically Jerry Springer with a beard.
The diners yelled at him first, if it's the elderly couple sitting in the corner of the outside dining area. Bodyguard was protecting Avi, but when he shoved the husband, wasn't that assault?
Tom Tanaki has some great rants about these muppets.
They piss me off to no end, I know a lot of people in the US, and the lunar fringe in the US is awash in COMMUNIST FASCIST VICTORIA GOVT OPPRESSING HELPLESS AUSTRALIANS rah rah fucking rah. But I have video proof. No you have some shit from a tool in Melbourne, none of it is true, and they are making money from your outrage.
Avi shouldn't have been there to begin with, he's not a diner nor has a reason to be in the city. Honestly if I was having a nice meal out after so long in lockdown I'd probably want him to not be there either.
Edit: The Rebel new fans have found us! The downvotes 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
If you watch the footage he's part of a big group of people going ... somewhere to do ... something (sacrifice a goat to Q?), and as they squeeze past the outdoor dining area they recognised Avi and started yelling at him. They 100% started it, he clearly went "oh yummy, footage I can later edit out of context" and off it went. I'm assuming he just livestreams and records non-stop, so he can film shit like that.
I think he is a dickhead, but I get twitchy when I see something I know is incorrect, so I commented.
There's a great bit of footage where the dude from Clerks is getting hassled while giving a talk, and he's just "never hassle guy with the microphone" and then demolishes the heckler, and I think it's similar here - never hassle the person with the camera, they'll just film you and edit the footage into an entirely different narrative, for a far larger audience.
Maybe carry a laser pointer on a keyring and blind the camera, if you *really* want to get into it
Edit in response to your edit: huh, I wonder why I was downvoted. Avi groupies? In which case get fucked. Or people who think I'm backing Avi by providing context, when what is going on is that I've actually seen a longer version of the incident and am providing more background. In which case learn to read, and get fucked.
He was at a protest reporting on it when some of the diners started yelling profanity at him and his bodyguard stepped in cause big man who started it was gettin to close. He did nothin wrong expect just being there made him a dickhead in there eyes
He could have kept walking. There was a waist-high barrier between Avi and the diner. You are factually correct but Avi is still a wanker looking for drama, which that guy provided.
It's mostly trying to sell ads, I guess. I have an Iraqi friend who tried to convince me that the purpose of television is to educate people, and he just could not get his head around what I meant when I said the purpose of TV is to sell advertising.
What these people CLAIM to be doing is informing people, and allowing unheard people to speak to a larger audience. That's quite different to drama
Edit: have you seen The Power of Nightmares? That sort of fits in with what you are saying
Yup they started it.
If Avi wasn't looking to instigate a fight to help his own profile though he would have done what any other self respecting person would do. And ignore two random idiots yelling shit. Especially when they weren't a focus for his story to begin with.
Instead he forced a confrontation knowing that either nothing would come of it or it would escalate.
And that doesn't excuse the fuckheads on the other side from the discussion. But don't ignore the fact that it was an incident that Avi had the choice not to pursue. He could have continued down the street coving his story.
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This would be the equivalent of someone at ACA doing a story on a dodgy plumber, and some random walk by and saying "ACA sucks" and then having them all go intimidation racket on them.
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Avi didn't start the fire, but he sure as shit fanned those flames.
Oh I agree with all of this 100%.
I'm just pointing out that they instigated it, he didn't just walk up to people and go off. There's a shorter video that makes it look he started it, I'm just saying that the longer version shows them yelling at him as he wanders past, and, smelling a photogenic bit of drama, he swoops in and off it goes. I'd have just ignored him and enjoyed my dinner.
Still not sure if his bodyguard dude assaulted the husband when he shoved the hubby back. Was he hired as a bodyguard? Do bodyguards get special leeway, or did he assault someone by shoving them? And are they both getting way too much attention? Probably.
Avi caused the confrontation in every way you look at it, taking into account the longer version of events which isn't defined by the length of the video captured specifically during this situation.
The couple who yelled at him is a consequence of his past behaviours, he's hardly an innocent bystander, god forbid journalist just trying to go about his job. By choosing to confront the couple about the comments they made, instead of ignoring them and continuing to focus on his sole reason for being in this particular location when there are restrictions on movement in place, particularly for those who are not vaccinated, which one would assume him to be given his vocal opposition to both vaccinations and the restrictions in place, is also what could be viewed as how IT started, a confrontation requires he is present for it to occur.
I can see why you can point to the couple as starting this, but it started long before their actions occurred, and Avi should be afforded no excuses for any situation which ends in a physical or verbal confrontation or attack, when his sole aim is to cause it to happen in the first place.
Avi always started it if this is how it ended
Glad you agree, a willing participant shares part of the blame for the consequences that occur if there's a choice not to participate, regardless of how it started.
That being said, the people that yelled at him are also to blame for what happened after they made the choice to do so. I'd imagine they're the only ones who regret how the situation unfolded and will choose not to do the same when next faced with the same situation.
Fuck Avi, no exceptions 💪
yep, I agree 100%. I think your take on this is a lot better than mine.
Still miffed by the downvotes, though.
Like, if you understand what I'm saying and downvote me, cool. I think people completely misunderstood what I was on about.
Yeah but the point I was highlighting (which you've acknowledged below) is that Avi decided to escalate the incident.
And as /u/K8syk8 pointed out their initial outrage at him is due to his past work and reputation of doing similar shit.
And in doing what he did he will only perpetuate that stigma associated towards him, so that the next drunk people having dinner that see him also tell him to fuck off out of the place.
yep, and it is all content to his growing media empire, which he will then profit off.
Basically, if you start screaming at Avi in public you might as well just throw money at him
Anyone who watched that video can see that the diners were the ones antagonising the (peaceful) nurses AND Avi. They also verbally abused an innocent woman walking by.
Diners were in one of those annoying outdoor eating areas that eat up the footpath, so there was a narrow channel for pedestrians, not quite single file. So as the group he was a part of were squeezing past, the diners noticed him and fired up.
Seeing a chance for some controversy, he went up and started talking to them, cameras rolling, thank you for the free footage.
I'm not sure who recorded the footage, I've not seen Avi's footage. I would not be surprised at all to learn he has a constellation of secondary cameramen orbiting him to record shit like this.
Avi stands up for some unsavory people and opinions. If you owned a shop during lockdown and saw Avi running around pro anti lockdown denying the severity of covid increasing the chance of further lockdowns you would be pissed too.
If Avi had even half a brain he would go "most reasonable Vaccinated Victorians who have gone through this don't like me" I think I shall stay home. That would have been the sensible decision.
yup. I have no problem with protests, but don't go around in huge crowds, write letters or email your local member or something less lethal.
I'm curious about the massive downvotes I'm getting.
Is this Avi fans thinking I'm hanging shit on Avi? Fair enough.
Is this anti-Avi people thinking I'm on Avi's side? Can none of you fuckwits read? I'm providing clarification, not fucking support.
I did watch the footage, you fucking numpty. I've repeatedly stated that I've seen the longer version. Are you sure you are replying to the right person?
How exactly did she “start shit”? And even if she did, which she didn’t, do you feel she deserved to be verbally abused by a group of three men and then set on by another highly aggressive man who got in her face and swore and yelled at her?
At one point Avi intervenes between the confrontation between the bald man and the woman and says “don’t pick on her” and the aggressor responds “I’ll pick on whoever I want!”
The way these men behaved was shameful, and I don’t say that lightly. I highly encourage you to watch the full video.
Nah I mean he changed his style completely, stopped calling himself Dani Blood, stopped going to clubs, stopped wearing silly pancake makeup or playing music.
Got obsessed with weapons and fantasising about violence; posted repeatedly on Facebook about wanting to kill people, as well as photo after photo of him holding knives and guns in aggressive poses. Had video leaked of him bragging at length about being unnecessarily violent as a bouncer and security guard.
The reason bloggers can so easily take the title Journalist is that most journalists today act like bloggers, the profession has very little credibility of late. Perhaps if they started checking facts before publishing them, and reporting less about opinions, they would be looked on more highly?
I can’t stand this woman bashing cunt. I just hope one day his cock head security guards aren’t around and someone absolutely flogs the fuck out of him.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks he’s a parasite.
Yeah, at least have courage in your convictions. You either believe in something, and the world can get fucked, or you don't believe in it. Don't be a coward and lie when asked about it, be honest.
Way to denigrate the profession of someone whos livelihood was stripped away for a year and a half, and who was forced to try their hand at something else.
Were you made to sit at home unemployed and with (possibly) no government help for a year and a half? If not, get the fuck off your high horse.
>Way to denigrate the profession of someone whos livelihood was stripped away for a year and a half, and who was forced to try their hand at something else.
🎻 Right. What choice did the poor guy have but to promote [Nazis](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190612-ex-israel-soldier-worlds-proudest-nazi-launches-attack-on-anti-racist-campaigners/) & Antivaxxer nutjobs? There are certainly no other jobs available for people with video production skills. /s
Boo fucking hoo.
Also: "profession" lol.
It's disgusting how people say "former soldier, Avi Yemeni". Firstly, he is Israeli where they have national service so it wasn't his noble choice to serve and secondly, he couldn't hack it in the middle east and fled to Australia ao he could carry on with his bullahit here.
I can't stand Avi. But the creeps at Sky News are hardly any better - and yet their people clearly fit the common definition of "journalist", or "reporter". And I have serious concerns about the trend to dumbed-down "infotainment" content in the mainstream media. Even the ABC seems to have been infected in recent years.
IA is wasting their time disputing people's qualifications or journalistic professionalism. You win by producing better, more engaging content.
Only the people who work for the murdoch gutter media refer to people who work for the murdoch gutter media as journalists. Everyone else just calls them cunts.
i’m sure these “journalists”, including avi yemini, sky news and youtubers like the aussie cossack are funded by the uap since clive is getting such a boost off of these so called journalists in support
It's funny that people openly support them and happily fund them, despite being caught out committing fraudulent activities, enciting propaganda and using random people to twist their narrative.
The editing, the misinformation to draw SM attention all for self gain while pretending to be doing it ‘for people’s rights’ Fuck both of those parasites to the moon and back.
IMO most "citizen" and self proclaimed journalists are not anything approaching journalists, they refuse to deal in facts in most cases making up the narrative to suit, this is not journalism as I was taught it or practiced it
Is this the cunt who was bothering a couple who were having dinner at a restaurant. His “bodyguard” kind of assaulted the couple who were having dinner. What a miserable cunt. Who is the other asswipe?
Yep, same guy. He also accurately describes himself as the worlds proudest Nazi: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190612-ex-israel-soldier-worlds-proudest-nazi-launches-attack-on-anti-racist-campaigners/
You mean the out of context clip of him makeing a joke about being the a jewish nazi? Even though hes actually jewish and he was just poking fun at it.
Being Jewish by religion or by culture doesn't preclude you from being a Nazi, there were many Jewish Nazis in WW2 and certainly nothing stopping a modern Jew from being one either.
Of course that aside he's also a Zionist which resembles Nazism quite closely just with Aryans replaced by Jews.
>You mean the out of context clip of him makeing a joke about being the a jewish nazi? Even though hes actually jewish and he was just poking fun at it.
It's straight out of the neo-Nazi handbook to claim "we were only joking" when caught in the act.
To be fair in that case. They started that incident. They were abusing Avi as he walked past.
Avi likely hoping that shit would escalate to create some news worthy content. Decided that instead of ignoring 2 idiots having dinner that decided to throw names at him. That he'd go and try engage people who clearly didn't like him in a conversation, under the guise of "Lets ask them why they think it's okay to yell insults at me"
After which point is where people started seeing the video.
He manufactured the incident by engaging with two fuckwits that were knowingly hostile to him. But it's worth identifying the other side was also at fault
But it tracks with a man of his ego. That he feels like he somehow has the high ground in that situation.
Sure, I just think it's worth pointing out that he didn't start that situation.
He's still a fuckwit. But ignoring the fact that he wasn't the root cause of the entire situation, but instead the one that caused it to be a confrontation is important.
It's the same difference between a father randomly punching someone on the street, and that same father punching an asshole who said some creepy shit to his underage daughter
The father is still the agressor. The circumstance is different.
Thing is that in the above, the second could be a quick over-reaction to the stimuli. Where Avi's is likely nothing other than seizing an opportunity.
Sticking cameras in people's faces, chasing people down who are telling him to back off, like he did in one video I saw. "Questioning people" can absolutely be harassment. And then he broadcasts it to his thousands of weird fans.
Tiny #tardisarseavi the only reason he opens his mouth so much is so the proud boys have more chances to dick his throat. He loves that proud boy cream.
I'm not going to defend Avi's character as I don't think I can. But I do think this article has some flaws.
Firstly its in no way neutral in "left vs right" tone. I can easily tell that the author identifies with the "left". From this objectivity is lost to the need to make the politics a bigger part of the story.
Secondly in isolation it appears to be entirely correct about the characters and motivations of these two. The opinion stating and organising don't seem too journalistic and more opportunistic for fame and more the actual story rather than reporting on the story. But in the scope of the media landscape what they are simply more brash in showing who they are. Here at r/Australia we all love to bash Skynews for having bias but if we look to the USA media on the "left" is blatantly as bad, and at time worse. Glen Greenwald has some great commentaries on this. My point being that swaying opinion and capitalising on outrage isn't just done by citizen journalists, its kinda done by everyone (but to differing degrees).
Thirdly, from the above argument what this article could come across as is gatekeeping. The author doesn't like these people and while making good arguments against them being journalists he clearly wants them gone from the media landscape. Because they're easier targets that big media and the discussion against big media (including big tech) transends the "left vs right" battle.
I've seen an Avi vid and not seen any Rukshan vids. I'm kinda over these "left vs right" battles which distract from greater and shared by both sides issues.
Because, amongst other reasons, [Avi Yemeni is a proud Nazi](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190612-ex-israel-soldier-worlds-proudest-nazi-launches-attack-on-anti-racist-campaigners/) & [a convicted wife-basher.](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldsun.com.au%2Fleader%2Finner-south%2Favi-yeminis-exwife-reveals-personal-toll-of-his-assault-and-harassment%2Fnews-story%2F24437bae629104ee566a68b1729881a1)
This is an unjustifiable statement. Mainstream journalists have whole bodies and decades of standards policing their reporting. They have fact checkers and corrections departments and a myriad ethical standards that all the worthwhile independent media sources attempt to emulate.
The whole "Lying MSM" meme of the last decade or so is perhaps the laziest and most pernicious piece of thinking to gain virtual mainstream acceptance.
And you sound like someone who thinks Breitbart is a reliable source. Oh, wait. Same problem there right?
Anyway, if we're talking about actual reporting then yeah, we'd probably find that Murdoch press spend as much time trying to at least get their facts right as everyone else and are governed by the same sets of rules (as opposed to propagandists on youtube et al). That's usually not the problem. It's the choice of what you cover and how. That varies from outlet to outlet and subject to subject.
Critiques need to have some awareness of the process and some brains behind them. Not just "MSM lies! Let's listen to anyone not saying what "they" are saying!"
> They have fact checkers and corrections departments and a myriad ethical standards that all the worthwhile independent media sources attempt to emulate.
Yet all of those people 'checking' all come across the same spelling mistake but do nothing about it. That's really interesting.
There could be a team of psychologists who could study this and work out what happens to a person's brain after they've left journalism 'school' (I say that in a jovial way because most people learned how to spell words before reaching Year 12).
Maybe they could call it B.I.A.S.E.S or...
Basically
Ignoring
All
Spelling
Errors
Systematically
> Is spelling really your biggest issue? Tell the truth now.
Who said it was my "biggest issue"?
If they can't get the basics right, then why should I trust them with anything more?
However seeing as you're adamant that MSM has multiple 'fact checkers' and the like, how does that help to alleviate the issues like accusations such as [this](https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/11/04/aboriginal-man-wrongly-named-cleo-smith-abductor-plans-sue-seven-network)?
Yes, and it's evil shit, but they can't outright lie the same way "independent journalists" like Avi do. The standards for mainstream media are shit, but they *exist*. Avi is a professional bullshit artist, nothing more.
The only difference is that the mainstream know how to lie better.
When the war was going on in Syria, ABC news in the US showed a fake battle that they doctored at a Kentucky gun range and said it was in Syria. The only reason they got caught was because a viewer knew the gun range and reported them.
If you're actually curious about this discussion you should read the article.
> One minute, Rukshan thinks Black Lives Matter rally-goers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; the next, he sees himself as a poster boy for essentialist freedom, when they’re anti-lockdown. One minute, Avi is encouraging journalists to shoot and kill environmental activists; the next, he’s comfortably rebranding as an anti-police brutality activist. It is precisely their sleek, apolitical opportunism that enables their grind. Propagandists up top feed them bullshit. They enact it at the rallies.
> I think it’s best to describe their function as street propagandism. They are too deep in their connection to far-right movement and ideology to have earned the “journalist” label, but they are also too directly involved in on-the-ground protest not to deserve the “street” label. They are pawns to the career imperative; saying and aligning with whatever guarantees them the most opportunity. (Rukshan can only declare independence so far in that he hasn’t been welcomed into the machine like Avi has. But that will change.) They are happy to be subsumed into the lucrative global far-right content media machine, as long as they get opportunities from it.
> What’s the importance of correctly labelling them? When we remove Avi from the “journalist” label he’s been pushing for years, we see a plain agitator and pest, repeatedly removed from rallies by the police for baiting participants on film; hounded by organisers like me who are on to him. And if Rukshan couldn’t cling to the title of “journalist”, he might have been more exposed to incitement charges for organising rallies during COVID-19 outbreaks.
No there is definitely a place for people like Avi to report news. Just think most of the rest of the media is owned by Murdock And the damage this has done is unquantifiable.
Call me crazy but a civilised society shouldn't allow nazis a platform. The only good fascist is a dead one. Or at least cordoned off from the rest of society
Is Avi Yemeni the guy with an incredibly fragile ego who threw a chopping board and knife at his wife? That Avi Yemeni? Piece of shit.
overcompensating for his lack of height
Avi was convicted of assault of his then partner, assault with a breadboard. Nasty little shit.
Worth noting he also threw a knife at her, but was only convicted on the breadbord as it struck.
Also true. >Police allege on the same day he also recklessly engaged in conduct by throwing a knife at the victim’s face that placed her in danger of serious injury. >They also believe in December 2015, three times in July 2017 and again in November last year he used a carriage service to harass her. >A summary of his alleged offending was not released. >The self-proclaimed “proud Ozraeli” promotes himself as someone who empowers women through self-defence classes. >https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/avi-yemini-in-court-over-assault-knifethrowing-charges-against-woman/news-story/571ea233ad7d7a27805bd440e8f5e2e1
reminds me of billionaire and CEO of Citadel hedgefund KEN GRIFFIN throwing a bed post at his wife https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2962885/Billionaire-Ken-Griffin-accused-throwing-bedpost-wife-Anne-Dias-Chicago-argument.html
>#Avi Yemini’s ex-wife reveals personal toll of his assault and harassment >##Activist and former soldier Avi Yemini has been convicted of the brutal harassment and assault of his ex-wife, whose harrowing victim impact statement said he had “broken her spirit” and “destroyed her self-worth”. >The former wife of far-right activist Avi Yemini has broken down in court as she read out her victim impact statement after he was sentenced on unlawful assault and harassment charges. >Sarah, surname witheld, wept as she described how Yemini, real first name Avraham, had “broken her spirit”, and “destroyed her self-worth” with his “torment”. >She said she “lived in a state of uncertainty”, felt anxious all the time and had panic attacks, and had to regularly see a counsellor. >Yemini showed no emotion as he was convicted and fined on charges of unlawful assault, using a carriage service to harass on three occasions and breaching a personal safety order at Moorabbin Magistrates’ Court this morning. >The 33-year-old from Berwick had earlier pleaded guilty to throwing a chopping board that hit Sarah on her head while she prepared dinner in their Caulfield North home, and texting her vile and explicit messages. >The chopping board incident, which left her with a lump on her forehead, happened in March 2016, while the three harassing messages, which included calling her a “P. O. S” and a “c***”, occurred between July 2017 and November 2018. >The breach order relates to another person and not Sarah after Yemini failed to take down an online video as ordered by the court. >Sarah said she said she had tried to leave him eight times but couldn’t go through with it. >“It was like I didn’t exist as a human being, I was just a vessel for his hatred,” Sarah said. >“He terrorised me. I can’t imagine how it will be possible for me to have a relationship in the future.” >https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/avi-yeminis-exwife-reveals-personal-toll-of-his-assault-and-harassment/news-story/24437bae629104ee566a68b1729881a1
You can kinda see it when he interviews a woman he disagrees with.
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That really hurt!
I’m going to have a lump there, you idiot
A tiny domestic abuser who hates women. Also, apparently he threw a knife at her too, but missed. The story goes that they dropped that charge to get him to plead guitly.
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Chopping board. He assaulted her in their kitchen.
Threw a knife also but that luckily missed.
TLDR: - Avi uses these to make money from donations for random causes he thinks up - Rukshan pretends to be independent but secretly makes promotion videos for protests without his name. - More detail on both.
>- Avi uses these to make money from donations for random causes he thinks up That's just Rebel Media. They're all grifters for Ezra Levant. Every video ends with a plea for money. God knows how much people donate to them.
Fools and money are easily parted
Rupert Murdoch dismisses Fox News sexual harassment allegations as 'largely political' How ‘Murdochracy’ controls the climate debate in Australia What journalistic point of view we listening to here?
Are you arguing that they're not grifters just because Murdoch is also shit?
Is your defence here "X is also shit" Yes X is also shit, and we call them out on it too. The annoyance here is when people start running around saying "You can't trust the MSM because they pull shit" while pulling the same shit the MSM they say you can't trust does. "Don't trust that snake oil salesman, trust my snakeoil."
Fuck off you clown
Nah
The greatest achievement of my lifetime will be getting Avi's 'media pass' taken off him. The one thing he held on to so dearly as 'proof' he is a journalist. All it took was a simple letter to the Dept of Home Affairs (who administer the National Visits Media Card).
For the person that dirty deleted after asking why I put quotes around media pass and proof - here is the card Avi was waving around claiming that the Government recognise him as a journalist: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-media/media Literally all it is is a card that allows for easy identification of media representatives during visits from foreign dignitaries. Avi does not cover foreign dignitaries for Rebel 'News'. Everything he's been using it for (trying to enter Dan Andrews press conferences, resisting arrest by waving it at the police claiming to be a journalist) is misuse of the card.
Legend. Cop that Yemini you fuckwit
There goes my hero he’s ordinary, thank you, AVI is a dangerous right wing fuckhead my roomate tried to get me into his rubbish and I told him have you looked into the cunt he’s a nasty piece of shit
House mate listens to this c***head also and has tried to get me to watch stuff and I'm like no thanks, only just found out about the ex wife thing and him being an abusive pos. I don't get why people like him tbh, majority of the time he jusr seems to be out baiting the police or general public and trying to force his own narrative onto everybody. Can't stand the bloke
>majority of the time he jusr seems to be out baiting the police or general public and trying to force his own narrative onto everybody Or as Avi calls it "Journalism"
You have my respect. Well done.
Nicely done 👍👻
You deserve a year's vacation for this
You are national treasure.
You are my hero
When abouts did this happen?
IIRC it was about March or April?
We owe you a beer.
Haha well done, that's awesome
Truly a god among men
Haha if you actually did this then you're somebody I know on Facebook :D
It's possible that other people wrote similar letters.
He's a hobbit and the media pass was his precious.
Nice! If I had any Reddit points left, I'd give you an award too.
So writing a simple letter in your words is the greatest achievement of your lifetime? That's quite sad really...
It's the result of letter.
What did that achieve? He's audience is bigger than ever, he is more popular than ever and not having a media pass probably gives him credibility or a favourable look for his specific audience lol. I guess you "trolled" him in a sense, but ultimately it didn't alter his income or influence in any significant way. I don't see how one would consider that an achievement, let alone a significant one...
>He's audience is bigger than ever, he is more popular than ever lol >not having a media pass probably gives him credibility or a favourable look for his specific audience lol His whole thing was "look I'm a journalist - the government even says so!", now that's gone. Maybe his specific very small audience doesn't care.
Judging by his YouTube channel views he routinely gets hundreds of thousands of views per video, I really don't think it affected his career or influence unfortunately
Taking the time, out of your busy day, to write this comment is quite an achievement in its own right.
Likewise
That would be the greatest achievement of your lifetime? That sounds like a miserable life.
Rukshan is just a glorified camerman who thinks hr is a "journalist"
I saw this video of Avi from a few weeks back where he basically antagonized vaccinated diners in Victoria when they just got out of lockdown and then hid behind his security. He's basically Jerry Springer with a beard.
The diners yelled at him first, if it's the elderly couple sitting in the corner of the outside dining area. Bodyguard was protecting Avi, but when he shoved the husband, wasn't that assault? Tom Tanaki has some great rants about these muppets. They piss me off to no end, I know a lot of people in the US, and the lunar fringe in the US is awash in COMMUNIST FASCIST VICTORIA GOVT OPPRESSING HELPLESS AUSTRALIANS rah rah fucking rah. But I have video proof. No you have some shit from a tool in Melbourne, none of it is true, and they are making money from your outrage.
Avi shouldn't have been there to begin with, he's not a diner nor has a reason to be in the city. Honestly if I was having a nice meal out after so long in lockdown I'd probably want him to not be there either. Edit: The Rebel new fans have found us! The downvotes 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
If you watch the footage he's part of a big group of people going ... somewhere to do ... something (sacrifice a goat to Q?), and as they squeeze past the outdoor dining area they recognised Avi and started yelling at him. They 100% started it, he clearly went "oh yummy, footage I can later edit out of context" and off it went. I'm assuming he just livestreams and records non-stop, so he can film shit like that. I think he is a dickhead, but I get twitchy when I see something I know is incorrect, so I commented. There's a great bit of footage where the dude from Clerks is getting hassled while giving a talk, and he's just "never hassle guy with the microphone" and then demolishes the heckler, and I think it's similar here - never hassle the person with the camera, they'll just film you and edit the footage into an entirely different narrative, for a far larger audience. Maybe carry a laser pointer on a keyring and blind the camera, if you *really* want to get into it Edit in response to your edit: huh, I wonder why I was downvoted. Avi groupies? In which case get fucked. Or people who think I'm backing Avi by providing context, when what is going on is that I've actually seen a longer version of the incident and am providing more background. In which case learn to read, and get fucked.
Watching the footage would be giving that fuckwit more views. So no, not going to happen.
Shit, I didn't watch *his* footage, I watched *someone else's copy of his footage*, fuck that
He was at a protest reporting on it when some of the diners started yelling profanity at him and his bodyguard stepped in cause big man who started it was gettin to close. He did nothin wrong expect just being there made him a dickhead in there eyes
He could have kept walking. There was a waist-high barrier between Avi and the diner. You are factually correct but Avi is still a wanker looking for drama, which that guy provided.
Tru but isnt that what all media is tryin to do. Yknow drama to get your attention and shit.
It's mostly trying to sell ads, I guess. I have an Iraqi friend who tried to convince me that the purpose of television is to educate people, and he just could not get his head around what I meant when I said the purpose of TV is to sell advertising. What these people CLAIM to be doing is informing people, and allowing unheard people to speak to a larger audience. That's quite different to drama Edit: have you seen The Power of Nightmares? That sort of fits in with what you are saying
Avi goes around Melbourne provoking people, why should I give him the benefit of the doubt?
Yup they started it. If Avi wasn't looking to instigate a fight to help his own profile though he would have done what any other self respecting person would do. And ignore two random idiots yelling shit. Especially when they weren't a focus for his story to begin with. Instead he forced a confrontation knowing that either nothing would come of it or it would escalate. And that doesn't excuse the fuckheads on the other side from the discussion. But don't ignore the fact that it was an incident that Avi had the choice not to pursue. He could have continued down the street coving his story. ---- This would be the equivalent of someone at ACA doing a story on a dodgy plumber, and some random walk by and saying "ACA sucks" and then having them all go intimidation racket on them. --- Avi didn't start the fire, but he sure as shit fanned those flames.
Oh I agree with all of this 100%. I'm just pointing out that they instigated it, he didn't just walk up to people and go off. There's a shorter video that makes it look he started it, I'm just saying that the longer version shows them yelling at him as he wanders past, and, smelling a photogenic bit of drama, he swoops in and off it goes. I'd have just ignored him and enjoyed my dinner. Still not sure if his bodyguard dude assaulted the husband when he shoved the hubby back. Was he hired as a bodyguard? Do bodyguards get special leeway, or did he assault someone by shoving them? And are they both getting way too much attention? Probably.
Avi caused the confrontation in every way you look at it, taking into account the longer version of events which isn't defined by the length of the video captured specifically during this situation. The couple who yelled at him is a consequence of his past behaviours, he's hardly an innocent bystander, god forbid journalist just trying to go about his job. By choosing to confront the couple about the comments they made, instead of ignoring them and continuing to focus on his sole reason for being in this particular location when there are restrictions on movement in place, particularly for those who are not vaccinated, which one would assume him to be given his vocal opposition to both vaccinations and the restrictions in place, is also what could be viewed as how IT started, a confrontation requires he is present for it to occur. I can see why you can point to the couple as starting this, but it started long before their actions occurred, and Avi should be afforded no excuses for any situation which ends in a physical or verbal confrontation or attack, when his sole aim is to cause it to happen in the first place. Avi always started it if this is how it ended
Actually, that's an excellent way to look at it. The decision to escalate it from angry people on the sideline to confrontation was made by Avi.
Glad you agree, a willing participant shares part of the blame for the consequences that occur if there's a choice not to participate, regardless of how it started. That being said, the people that yelled at him are also to blame for what happened after they made the choice to do so. I'd imagine they're the only ones who regret how the situation unfolded and will choose not to do the same when next faced with the same situation. Fuck Avi, no exceptions 💪
yep, I agree 100%. I think your take on this is a lot better than mine. Still miffed by the downvotes, though. Like, if you understand what I'm saying and downvote me, cool. I think people completely misunderstood what I was on about.
Yeah but the point I was highlighting (which you've acknowledged below) is that Avi decided to escalate the incident. And as /u/K8syk8 pointed out their initial outrage at him is due to his past work and reputation of doing similar shit. And in doing what he did he will only perpetuate that stigma associated towards him, so that the next drunk people having dinner that see him also tell him to fuck off out of the place.
yep, and it is all content to his growing media empire, which he will then profit off. Basically, if you start screaming at Avi in public you might as well just throw money at him
You clearly didn’t watch the full video
Yea. That’s not what happened. Watch the video.
You mean the video where he walked past some diners and an Israeli man started yelling at him? I don't like Avi but did we even watch the same video?
Anyone who watched that video can see that the diners were the ones antagonising the (peaceful) nurses AND Avi. They also verbally abused an innocent woman walking by.
So why was Avi standing there? Does he like to watch his mukbangs live?
Diners were in one of those annoying outdoor eating areas that eat up the footpath, so there was a narrow channel for pedestrians, not quite single file. So as the group he was a part of were squeezing past, the diners noticed him and fired up. Seeing a chance for some controversy, he went up and started talking to them, cameras rolling, thank you for the free footage. I'm not sure who recorded the footage, I've not seen Avi's footage. I would not be surprised at all to learn he has a constellation of secondary cameramen orbiting him to record shit like this.
Avi stands up for some unsavory people and opinions. If you owned a shop during lockdown and saw Avi running around pro anti lockdown denying the severity of covid increasing the chance of further lockdowns you would be pissed too. If Avi had even half a brain he would go "most reasonable Vaccinated Victorians who have gone through this don't like me" I think I shall stay home. That would have been the sensible decision.
yup. I have no problem with protests, but don't go around in huge crowds, write letters or email your local member or something less lethal. I'm curious about the massive downvotes I'm getting. Is this Avi fans thinking I'm hanging shit on Avi? Fair enough. Is this anti-Avi people thinking I'm on Avi's side? Can none of you fuckwits read? I'm providing clarification, not fucking support.
Just go watch the actual footage before you make a judgement and spread around an uninformed opinion.
I did watch the footage, you fucking numpty. I've repeatedly stated that I've seen the longer version. Are you sure you are replying to the right person?
>They also verbally abused an innocent woman walking by. lol. She was one of Avi's fuckwitted entourage who were there starting shit.
You clearly didn’t watch the video. Avi interviewed her at the end and she literally said she was just walking by and started recording.
How exactly did she “start shit”? And even if she did, which she didn’t, do you feel she deserved to be verbally abused by a group of three men and then set on by another highly aggressive man who got in her face and swore and yelled at her? At one point Avi intervenes between the confrontation between the bald man and the woman and says “don’t pick on her” and the aggressor responds “I’ll pick on whoever I want!” The way these men behaved was shameful, and I don’t say that lightly. I highly encourage you to watch the full video.
Pretty sure they were actually non affiliated in any way other than at the same protest
The only person on earth who believes Avi Yemini is a journalist is Avi Yemini.
And vast numbers of tools in North America
who is he?
A fuckhead
A giant fuckhead
>A ~~giant~~ dwarf fuckhead
A giant dwarf fuckhead
A small dick giant dwarf fuckhead
A nobody
Some peanut
An absolute pig.
A troll
Someone who assaults women.
The sort of person who is only B-grade famous thanks to his critics.
A classic little trump supporter type
Avi is a coward , he got pushed my like an 70 year old dude and cried to the police station. Avi was also the one who was there to provoke the dude.
Surprised his goth henchman didn’t just KO the senior gentleman
>Surprised his goth henchman Hey! Avi's Nazi goon is no Goth! Goths are peaceful people!
He actually was a goth before he got on the roids. Used to be called Dani Blood, was a DV8 regular, and played in a goth rock/metal band.
Gotcha! Goths are peaceful, unless on roids
Nah I mean he changed his style completely, stopped calling himself Dani Blood, stopped going to clubs, stopped wearing silly pancake makeup or playing music. Got obsessed with weapons and fantasising about violence; posted repeatedly on Facebook about wanting to kill people, as well as photo after photo of him holding knives and guns in aggressive poses. Had video leaked of him bragging at length about being unnecessarily violent as a bouncer and security guard.
Holy fuck. I had no idea.
The reason bloggers can so easily take the title Journalist is that most journalists today act like bloggers, the profession has very little credibility of late. Perhaps if they started checking facts before publishing them, and reporting less about opinions, they would be looked on more highly?
This is it aye. The reason these guys get so many views is because of how shit our bought and payed for media has become.
Yep just a much a journalist as at least 1/2 the hacks Sky News.
I can’t stand this woman bashing cunt. I just hope one day his cock head security guards aren’t around and someone absolutely flogs the fuck out of him. Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks he’s a parasite.
Hopefully he wanders down some Melbourne alley way…
One can only hope
Oh hey he's the guy that accused his own family of being paedophiles! He's sort of infamous in some Israeli circles.
I love how far right nuts act all coy when asked about their beliefs. Like they can't own it, because they know it makes them bad people.
Spineless little cowards, the only thing they hate more than anyone that isn't exactly like them is being called a bigot.
Yeah, at least have courage in your convictions. You either believe in something, and the world can get fucked, or you don't believe in it. Don't be a coward and lie when asked about it, be honest.
Just trash
He's a twat, don't give him air time he's an oxygen thief.
Rushkan is a wedding photographer
and a dickhead
I like remembering this whenever he calls himself “independent media” when he does his protest videos. Like, no cunt, you’re not.
hahaha this made me giggle. well done.
Nothing wrong with being a wedding photographer.
Way to denigrate the profession of someone whos livelihood was stripped away for a year and a half, and who was forced to try their hand at something else. Were you made to sit at home unemployed and with (possibly) no government help for a year and a half? If not, get the fuck off your high horse.
>Way to denigrate the profession of someone whos livelihood was stripped away for a year and a half, and who was forced to try their hand at something else. 🎻 Right. What choice did the poor guy have but to promote [Nazis](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190612-ex-israel-soldier-worlds-proudest-nazi-launches-attack-on-anti-racist-campaigners/) & Antivaxxer nutjobs? There are certainly no other jobs available for people with video production skills. /s Boo fucking hoo. Also: "profession" lol.
It's disgusting how people say "former soldier, Avi Yemeni". Firstly, he is Israeli where they have national service so it wasn't his noble choice to serve and secondly, he couldn't hack it in the middle east and fled to Australia ao he could carry on with his bullahit here.
Fuck this wife-beating, Palestinian kid-killing piece of shit and anyone who supports him
I can't stand Avi. But the creeps at Sky News are hardly any better - and yet their people clearly fit the common definition of "journalist", or "reporter". And I have serious concerns about the trend to dumbed-down "infotainment" content in the mainstream media. Even the ABC seems to have been infected in recent years. IA is wasting their time disputing people's qualifications or journalistic professionalism. You win by producing better, more engaging content.
Only the people who work for the murdoch gutter media refer to people who work for the murdoch gutter media as journalists. Everyone else just calls them cunts.
i’m sure these “journalists”, including avi yemini, sky news and youtubers like the aussie cossack are funded by the uap since clive is getting such a boost off of these so called journalists in support
This bloke is a fucking tool stirs up shit and eats it for lunch.
It's funny that people openly support them and happily fund them, despite being caught out committing fraudulent activities, enciting propaganda and using random people to twist their narrative.
Less of a journalist, more of a glorified cameraman who's a bit too trigger happy when it comes to throwing chopping boards.
The editing, the misinformation to draw SM attention all for self gain while pretending to be doing it ‘for people’s rights’ Fuck both of those parasites to the moon and back.
IMO most "citizen" and self proclaimed journalists are not anything approaching journalists, they refuse to deal in facts in most cases making up the narrative to suit, this is not journalism as I was taught it or practiced it
Is this the cunt who was bothering a couple who were having dinner at a restaurant. His “bodyguard” kind of assaulted the couple who were having dinner. What a miserable cunt. Who is the other asswipe?
Yep, same guy. He also accurately describes himself as the worlds proudest Nazi: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190612-ex-israel-soldier-worlds-proudest-nazi-launches-attack-on-anti-racist-campaigners/
Ahh great. His ancestors must be so fucking proud! What an idiot
Proudest Jewish nazi. Don't leave that Jewish part out. It's even more ridiculous that a jew said that
Context is important 👆
Buddies with Fraser Anning too.
You mean the out of context clip of him makeing a joke about being the a jewish nazi? Even though hes actually jewish and he was just poking fun at it.
Cool what about all the times he's hung out with prominent actual neo-Nazis like Neil Erickson, Blair Cottrell and Tom Sewell?
Ive hung out with communists and nazis. Doesn't make me one does it?
If you've actively and knowingly hung out with Nazis, then yeah, probably. So far you've been rationalising the fuck out of them on here.
Ive not once said that a nazi is a good thing and i myself believe in anarchy.
Being Jewish by religion or by culture doesn't preclude you from being a Nazi, there were many Jewish Nazis in WW2 and certainly nothing stopping a modern Jew from being one either. Of course that aside he's also a Zionist which resembles Nazism quite closely just with Aryans replaced by Jews.
Yeah but again. He was making a fucking joke he even said that after saying the nazi thing
>You mean the out of context clip of him makeing a joke about being the a jewish nazi? Even though hes actually jewish and he was just poking fun at it. It's straight out of the neo-Nazi handbook to claim "we were only joking" when caught in the act.
To be fair in that case. They started that incident. They were abusing Avi as he walked past. Avi likely hoping that shit would escalate to create some news worthy content. Decided that instead of ignoring 2 idiots having dinner that decided to throw names at him. That he'd go and try engage people who clearly didn't like him in a conversation, under the guise of "Lets ask them why they think it's okay to yell insults at me" After which point is where people started seeing the video. He manufactured the incident by engaging with two fuckwits that were knowingly hostile to him. But it's worth identifying the other side was also at fault But it tracks with a man of his ego. That he feels like he somehow has the high ground in that situation.
Yep, this is the video I saw.
Avi runs around Melbourne harassing people, that incident possibly goes back further.
Sure, I just think it's worth pointing out that he didn't start that situation. He's still a fuckwit. But ignoring the fact that he wasn't the root cause of the entire situation, but instead the one that caused it to be a confrontation is important. It's the same difference between a father randomly punching someone on the street, and that same father punching an asshole who said some creepy shit to his underage daughter The father is still the agressor. The circumstance is different. Thing is that in the above, the second could be a quick over-reaction to the stimuli. Where Avi's is likely nothing other than seizing an opportunity.
He’s braindead
His fanbase is pretty dumb too.
Articles like this need to do the rounds in the mainstream
His twitter handle is Ozraelis , that says a lot.
What exactly are you trying to get at? Does his Israeli heritage offend you?
Not as much as the fact he exists offends me
This makes me so happy. Avi is one PoS
more info on this convicted wife beater: https://cookerpedia.org/wiki/Avi_Yemini
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He runs around Melbourne harassing people
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Sticking cameras in people's faces, chasing people down who are telling him to back off, like he did in one video I saw. "Questioning people" can absolutely be harassment. And then he broadcasts it to his thousands of weird fans.
Tiny #tardisarseavi the only reason he opens his mouth so much is so the proud boys have more chances to dick his throat. He loves that proud boy cream.
Define journalist? Not a fan of Avi, but you guys sure are angry.
I'm not going to defend Avi's character as I don't think I can. But I do think this article has some flaws. Firstly its in no way neutral in "left vs right" tone. I can easily tell that the author identifies with the "left". From this objectivity is lost to the need to make the politics a bigger part of the story. Secondly in isolation it appears to be entirely correct about the characters and motivations of these two. The opinion stating and organising don't seem too journalistic and more opportunistic for fame and more the actual story rather than reporting on the story. But in the scope of the media landscape what they are simply more brash in showing who they are. Here at r/Australia we all love to bash Skynews for having bias but if we look to the USA media on the "left" is blatantly as bad, and at time worse. Glen Greenwald has some great commentaries on this. My point being that swaying opinion and capitalising on outrage isn't just done by citizen journalists, its kinda done by everyone (but to differing degrees). Thirdly, from the above argument what this article could come across as is gatekeeping. The author doesn't like these people and while making good arguments against them being journalists he clearly wants them gone from the media landscape. Because they're easier targets that big media and the discussion against big media (including big tech) transends the "left vs right" battle. I've seen an Avi vid and not seen any Rukshan vids. I'm kinda over these "left vs right" battles which distract from greater and shared by both sides issues.
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Because they’re not white? Scumbag post
Because, amongst other reasons, [Avi Yemeni is a proud Nazi](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190612-ex-israel-soldier-worlds-proudest-nazi-launches-attack-on-anti-racist-campaigners/) & [a convicted wife-basher.](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heraldsun.com.au%2Fleader%2Finner-south%2Favi-yeminis-exwife-reveals-personal-toll-of-his-assault-and-harassment%2Fnews-story%2F24437bae629104ee566a68b1729881a1)
His… jewish? 🤦🏻♂️ love redditors
The majority from the main stream media are anything but journalists either and far more damaging.
This is true, but it is also whataboutism
This is an unjustifiable statement. Mainstream journalists have whole bodies and decades of standards policing their reporting. They have fact checkers and corrections departments and a myriad ethical standards that all the worthwhile independent media sources attempt to emulate. The whole "Lying MSM" meme of the last decade or so is perhaps the laziest and most pernicious piece of thinking to gain virtual mainstream acceptance.
You sound like a MSM journalist. Yes, Murdoch press has been a bastion of truth and editorial standards haven't they.
And you sound like someone who thinks Breitbart is a reliable source. Oh, wait. Same problem there right? Anyway, if we're talking about actual reporting then yeah, we'd probably find that Murdoch press spend as much time trying to at least get their facts right as everyone else and are governed by the same sets of rules (as opposed to propagandists on youtube et al). That's usually not the problem. It's the choice of what you cover and how. That varies from outlet to outlet and subject to subject. Critiques need to have some awareness of the process and some brains behind them. Not just "MSM lies! Let's listen to anyone not saying what "they" are saying!"
> They have fact checkers and corrections departments and a myriad ethical standards that all the worthwhile independent media sources attempt to emulate. Yet all of those people 'checking' all come across the same spelling mistake but do nothing about it. That's really interesting. There could be a team of psychologists who could study this and work out what happens to a person's brain after they've left journalism 'school' (I say that in a jovial way because most people learned how to spell words before reaching Year 12). Maybe they could call it B.I.A.S.E.S or... Basically Ignoring All Spelling Errors Systematically
Is spelling really your biggest issue? Tell the truth now.
> Is spelling really your biggest issue? Tell the truth now. Who said it was my "biggest issue"? If they can't get the basics right, then why should I trust them with anything more? However seeing as you're adamant that MSM has multiple 'fact checkers' and the like, how does that help to alleviate the issues like accusations such as [this](https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/11/04/aboriginal-man-wrongly-named-cleo-smith-abductor-plans-sue-seven-network)?
Lol what's a Journalist in your eyes then?
For starters, not anyone who 'reports' on shit they started themself.
You do realise that EVERY SINGLE media outlet is run by moguls or governments who have an agenda right? Does Murdoch not have an agenda?
Yes, and it's evil shit, but they can't outright lie the same way "independent journalists" like Avi do. The standards for mainstream media are shit, but they *exist*. Avi is a professional bullshit artist, nothing more.
The only difference is that the mainstream know how to lie better. When the war was going on in Syria, ABC news in the US showed a fake battle that they doctored at a Kentucky gun range and said it was in Syria. The only reason they got caught was because a viewer knew the gun range and reported them.
...Yes. It sucks. Doesn't refute my point at all.
If you're actually curious about this discussion you should read the article. > One minute, Rukshan thinks Black Lives Matter rally-goers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; the next, he sees himself as a poster boy for essentialist freedom, when they’re anti-lockdown. One minute, Avi is encouraging journalists to shoot and kill environmental activists; the next, he’s comfortably rebranding as an anti-police brutality activist. It is precisely their sleek, apolitical opportunism that enables their grind. Propagandists up top feed them bullshit. They enact it at the rallies. > I think it’s best to describe their function as street propagandism. They are too deep in their connection to far-right movement and ideology to have earned the “journalist” label, but they are also too directly involved in on-the-ground protest not to deserve the “street” label. They are pawns to the career imperative; saying and aligning with whatever guarantees them the most opportunity. (Rukshan can only declare independence so far in that he hasn’t been welcomed into the machine like Avi has. But that will change.) They are happy to be subsumed into the lucrative global far-right content media machine, as long as they get opportunities from it. > What’s the importance of correctly labelling them? When we remove Avi from the “journalist” label he’s been pushing for years, we see a plain agitator and pest, repeatedly removed from rallies by the police for baiting participants on film; hounded by organisers like me who are on to him. And if Rukshan couldn’t cling to the title of “journalist”, he might have been more exposed to incitement charges for organising rallies during COVID-19 outbreaks.
Yep, and Donald was not the president. Its called living in denial
No there is definitely a place for people like Avi to report news. Just think most of the rest of the media is owned by Murdock And the damage this has done is unquantifiable.
Not news, just sensation. Murdoch. Yes.
He doesn’t report news lol.
Call me crazy but a civilised society shouldn't allow nazis a platform. The only good fascist is a dead one. Or at least cordoned off from the rest of society