Controversial internet personality Avi Yemini trolls Australia Day protesters

Controversial internet personality Avi Yemini has slammed protesters for not knowing why they’re against Australia Day.

A right-wing political activist has slammed Australia Day protesters for not even understanding what they’re against.

YouTube personality Avi Yemini, who calls himself a “proud ozraeli” on Twitter, took to the streets for the Invasion Day rally in Melbourne to ask supporters of the change the date movement why they were protesting.

“These people don’t even know what they’re protesting,” he posted with the accompanying video.

The former Israeli soldier, who now runs gyms, commentates on and creates videos about controversial and divisive topics in Australia.

In the latest video posted to his YouTube account titled, “What do leftists really HATE about Australia Day?”, he asks people what date the First Fleet arrived in Australia, or what the problem with Australia Day was and many did not have an answer.

The Jewish activist also included a run-in with a police officer who told him people did not want to speak to him and asked him to move on.

YouTube personality Avi Yemini posted a controversial Australia Day video. Picture: Avi Yemini/YouTube

One woman told Yemini “it was time to change” and when he asked her what needed changing, she did not want to answer.

While most people appeared to avoid answering because they realised Yemini might have been making a video to mock them, others were dumbfounded.

Yemini joked he had his own escort of socialists before asking them what they thought about what was going on in Venezuela, a country now in crisis because of its socialist President.

He also asked if people found it was odd most of the crowd was white, and interviewed a man wearing an indigenous shirt who said he had a problem with the “butcher’s apron” (Union Jack).

“The butcher’s apron is very similar to the Swastika,” he told Yemini.

In another grab he did not show the person he was talking to because he criticised the “historian” for not knowing the date the First Fleet arrived and someone can then be heard saying, “Just walk on”.

Most people became agitated, saying Yemini was just trying to catch them out.

Yemini recording himself at a rally in Melbourne. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Yemini has made headlines in the past for claiming “leftists teamed up with Islamists” and created Islamic terror on the streets of Melbourne during violent clashes outside a Milo Yiannopoulos’ event in 2017.

“It felt like I was in the Middle East on the Gaza Strip again where they were throwing rocks at the police,” he said.

Just this month he made a complaint to police after he reportedly received an offensive message from a far-right activist that said, “You dirty Jew”.

Yemini is also part of the right-wing Australian Liberty Alliance and spoke on Sky News’s Outsiders program last year, voicing his views — or what he calls “truth-bombs” — about letting South African farmers in.

In his latest post he asks people to support a page he says is for creating news reports the mainstream media refuses to show people.

“Support my work by joining the Ozraeli Army and ensure that we win the culture war!” he writes on the page asking for donations.

Yemini also recently attacked the Schools Strike 4 Climate action event in Melbourne after students around the country skipped school to protest the Morrison Government’s lack of action on climate change.

He slammed adults for “child abuse”, claiming they were using children to propagate their agenda.