Anti-Semites don’t seem to be the sharpest tools in the shed. After all, you’d have to be pretty damn clueless to insult Jews when your fortunes depends on swanky restaurants in Sydney’s Jewish suburbs. Oh, and your head chef is Jewish.
But knobhead Lebo restaurateur Al Yazbek fucked around anyway – and soon found out. Last heard of, he was scurrying off to India, trailing a criminal conviction and a fast-failing restaurant chain behind him, while his missus begged diners to come back.
Similarly, when you’re a lawyer whose colleagues and clients tend heavily to being Jewish, you’d have to be a complete fuckwit to spout a torrent of (allegedly!) anti-Semitic bile on social media.
Meet Damien Hazard, folks.
Top-tier law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has voted to remove one of its longstanding partners, Damien Hazard, over what it described as a “deeply offensive” tweet targeting Jeremy Leibler, a prominent partner at Arnold Bloch Leibler and president of the Zionist Federation of Australian.
On stop of his long-running cheerleading for the virulently anti-Semitic thugs of Gaza, Hazard chose to swim against the tide of evidence and accuse Leibler of lying about any link between last week’s terror attack on a Melbourne synagogue and the past year of violently anti-Israel ‘pro-Palestinian’ ‘protests’. You know, the ones that feature placards calling to ‘cleanse the world’ of Jews, use the Hamas red-triangle death mark and bellow slogans demanding to eradicate Jews from Israel.
The tweet that appears to have cost him his partnership took aim at Leibler for linking the arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue with the weekly Jew-hate parades that, as Leibler said, had been “displayed on the streets of Melbourne every week for over a year”.
Hazard’s response, amid the collective rage surrounding the antisemitic attack, was to accuse Leibler of “cynically politicising” the crime and “inventing a link” with the anti-Israel protests, which, as a set-piece, often loudly and proudly call for an “intifada”, or violent uprising, against Jews.
I mean, it’s not as if the folk who’ve been attacking synagogues and Jewish schools left behind any clues, like, oh, graffitiing “Fuk Israiel” (sic), or swastikas or anything like that.
So in a sense Hazard was right: the need for invention was wholly unnecessary. The link was evident all along […]
Thursday’s decision ended a week of mortification for Hazard’s bosses following numerous complaints concerning his online output in relation to Israel and the war in Gaza. Not only was Hazard ordered to immediately take down the offending tweet but he was placed under investigation and instructed not to show his face in the office.
But, seriously, how dense do you have to be, to be such a virulent Israel-hater when you work for a company like this:
Hazard, who at HSF has worked closely with Goldman Sachs Australia (headed by Josh Frydenberg) […]
A raft of Jewish employees at the firm raised a riot.
Presumably HSF’s clients and Jewish employees won’t be too pleased about this development, which explains why the firm’s moving so fast to roll out the support. Meetings have already been held with leaders of its Jewish network to make sure they feel “supported at this difficult time”.
Then again, the timing of Hazard’s tweet and the daubing of HSF in this awful colouring happens to coincide with a planned merger with New York litigation specialist Kramer Levin, whose two name partners, Ezra Levin and the late Arthur Kramer, are Jewish.
Well, I guess that all just proves that them Joos really is running the world, after all.
