Facebook pages belonging to the controversial far-right activist Avi Yemini have been removed from the platform, following Gizmodo’s enquiries.
On Tuesday, Yemini tweeted that a Facebook page belonging to him, The Yemini Report, had been unpublished. The page had more than 33,000 likes at the time.
This comes only days after another one of his ‘Avi Yemini’ Facebook pages, which had more than 77,000 followers, was banned, too.
Yemini is a far-right YouTuber who once called himself “the world’s proudest Jewish Nazi” and has links to Australian Neo-Nazis, according to Australian Jewish Democratic Society.
Yemini made a name for himself attacking Islam, China, and most recently, Victoria’s lockdown on his YouTube channel (which has more than 426,000 subscribers).
In 2018, Yemini’s main Facebook page was banned by Facebook. BuzzFeed reported at the time it was due to repeated examples of hate speech.
The ban followed Yemini publishing the phone number of Australian journalist Osman Faruqi after he tweeted about the plastic bag ban. Faruqi was subsequently inundated with death threats and said he was “scared for his safety.”
Read the article by Cam Wilson on Gizmodo.