As I’ve been reporting, Lebanese-Australian restaurateur and ‘pro-Palestine’ activist Al Yazbek fucked around with Nazi and Hezbollah symbols and is fast finding out. But, boy, are we finding out a whole lot more about him.
Especially his apparent hate-boner for Jews.
Nomad restaurant founder Al Yazbek, who last week apologised “unequivocally” for holding a Nazi sign at a Pro-Palestine protest, was questioned by police after acting suspiciously outside a Bondi synagogue in Sydney’s east in 2014, when his car was found loaded with “water bomb” balloons.
The next day, he made his way into a rally for Israel in nearby Dover Heights where more than 10,000 members of Sydney’s Jewish community had gathered, before the restaurateur was spotted by security and removed by police.
The big lie of the ‘pro-Palestine’ mob is that they’re ‘only anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic’. Spare me... Why is it, then, that they’re always targeting synagogues and Jewish schools – both of which have to exist under 24/7 armed security?
Oh, but he just ‘happens’ to repeatedly turn up to Israel events like a bad smell.
On Sunday, Mr Yazbek admitted he had gone to the synagogue to throw water bombs, mistakenly believing the Israel rally was to be held there, but claimed he had simply “detoured” to the rally the following day, while the couple were taking their dog for a walk, “to listen to the event”.
Like all creeps caught out, he’s falling back on the insincere apology gambit, complete with the old, ‘Some of my best friends are…’
Last week, Mr Yazbek issued an apology for his actions at the demonstration on Sunday “where I carried a sign that is deeply offensive to the Jewish community”.
“Friends and acquaintances who know me – both Jewish and gentile – know I am not an anti-Semite; they also know how passionate I am about supporting diversity and equality in both my personal life and within the Nomad Group of businesses.”
The Jewish community aren’t buying that load of camel-dookey, any more than his overpriced hummus.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin told The Australian: “No one took his apology seriously, which predictably referred to ‘Jewish friends’ and a ‘support for diversity’ to mask deplorable actions. These latest revelations show a pattern of vilification and harassment of Jewish Australians going back a decade.
“Both incidents weren’t spontaneous emotional outbursts but involved planning and premeditation suggesting a disturbing level of fixation,” he said.
Back in 2014, Hamas yet again kidnapped and murdered Jews. As always, the ‘pro-Palestinian’ thugs were furious that Israel dared retaliate against their beloved anti-Semitic terror group. Including Al Yazbek.
As pro-Palestine protests swept Australia, Sydney’s Jewish community organised a rally in support of Israel at the Dudley Page Reserve in Dover Heights, to be held on Sunday, August 3, 2014.
The day before the rally,, at 10.25am, a man was seen walking past the Bondi Mizrachi Synagogue and into Barracluff Park next door, where he sat and took out an iPad on which he appeared to be either taking photographs or making notes.
About five minutes later, he got up and walked past the back door of the synagogue, before returning a few minutes later. He was then seen walking towards Beach Road, where he got into a parked black BMW X5 and drove away. Police were immediately alerted.
At 10.40am the same man returned to the synagogue on foot and sat on a wooden bollard. When synagogue staff approached him, he said he was “here for an Israel rally today”. The staff member told him there was no rally and asked whether there was anything else they could help him with.
“No, that’s none of your f..king business”, the man allegedly replied.
Police then arrived and questioned the man. He was identified as Al Yazbek, police noting a tattoo in Arabic writing on his left forearm.
When police searched his car, they found a quantity of filled water bombs.
Just as well, I suppose, that he clearly hasn’t the smarts to make a rocket.
Once again, Yazbek was stalking Sydney’s Jewish community like a totally-not-anti-Semite.
The following day, huge crowds turned out for the Dover Heights rally in support of Israel, with more than 10,000 members of the Jewish community attending. Messages from Labor MP Mark Dreyfus and Liberal MP Josh Frydenberg were read to the Israeli flag-waving crowd.
At 11am, as the rally was in progress, the black BMW identified the day before outside the synagogue in Bondi was spotted outside the park.
Police stopped the car, which was being driven by a woman who identified herself as Rebecca Yazbek. She told police her husband was inside the event and she was waiting to pick him up.
Mr Yazbek was identified in the crowd, detained and removed from the event. He was questioned by police but allowed to leave without charge […]
Mr Yazbek denied he had gone to the Jewish rally the following day to cause trouble.
Now, he’s scuttled off to India – ‘to attend an ashram’ – faster than Yahya Sinwar bolting into a tunnel.
Fuck around and find out, pal.
