Avi Yemini

[12] After returning to Australia, Yemini opened his first IDF gym in Caulfield, Victoria, followed by a second in the Melbourne central business district in 2016.

[1] On 4 March 2018, Yemini joined the Australian Liberty Alliance to run as a candidate for the Southern Metropolitan Region of the Victorian Legislative Council at the 2018 state election.

[10] Yemini claimed the decision was due to an article in The New Zealand Herald that described him and fellow content creator Rukshan Fernando as "Australian conspiracy commentators".

[20] In April 2016, the Facebook page for Yemini's gym was banned for three days for sharing an antisemitic post with the hashtag "saynotoracism".

[24] He also pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to harass by sending abusive text messages to her, and one charge of breaching an intervention order relating to a video of a man.

[24] In September 2020, Yemini initiated legal action against Victoria Police, for wrongful arrest and alleged assault during lockdown protests.

[25][26] In June 2022 Victoria Police issued an apology acknowledging that Yemini had been wrongly arrested on multiple occasions while reporting for Rebel News.

[27] In 2021 Yemini was ejected and banned from the Victorian Parliament precinct for 7 days after he gained access using a media accreditation issued by the federal Department of Home Affairs for foreign dignitary visits.

[28] In March 2021, he applied for accreditation to allow him access to the press galleries of both houses of the parliament and the areas sounding the buildings.

[32] Rebel News agreed to remove the offending image of Garde-Wilson and issue an apology stating that no one had made any threats to kill.

[34] In 2023, Yemini sued Facebook fact-checker RMIT FactLab after it debunked claims made by him in a story about the Shrine of Remembrance's CEO.

[36] During the court case, defence for RMIT FactLab stated that Yemini had "failed to make any formal inquiries via appropriate channels with relevant persons" who had knowledge of the claims made in his story.

[1] He is critical of what he sees as a middle-class, soft-left ideology, which he believes is supported by “woke elites”, an entitled political class, and the mainstream media.