Published: 18 June 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Zarah Garde-Wilson has initiated legal action against Yemini, now a correspondent for Canadian-based alt-right website Rebel News
A GANGLAND LAWYER, her vlogging husband and a far-right agitator who once described himself as a Jewish Nazi are embroiled in a Federal Court fight which will test the capacity of defamation law to resolve disputes on the fact-free fringes of online publishing.
Melbourne defence lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson has initiated legal action against alt-right activist Avi Yemini, who since last year has been engaged in an increasingly bitter stoush with Ms Garde-Wilson’s husband and self-styled video blogger Lansley Simon.
Their dispute reached a nasty crescendo two days before Christmas when Mr Yemini, a former member of the Israeli Defence Force now on the payroll of the Canadian-based alt-right website Rebel News, posted an image of Ms Garde-Wilson with the cap-locked headline: “ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOR THREAT TO KILL”.
FULL STORY Gangland lawyer sues far-right agitator over defamatory posts (Age)
Photo: Avi Yemini (Rebel News, Canada)
