The family home of the founder of the Burgertory chain and Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh was firebombed last week, the second time in the past five months that arsonists attacked a property connected to him.
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at Tayeh’s house in Templestowe Lower just after 5am on Friday, setting his front door alight.
It comes after the Burgertory outlet in Caulfield North was torched in November.
The latest incident was captured by two security cameras at the property, with footage showing a lone man standing at the edge of the driveway before lighting the bottle on fire and throwing it.
No one was injured in the attack but Tayeh said the petrol bomb struck just below the bedroom of his two-year-old son.
In a post on Instagram, Tayeh labelled the firebombing as either “terrorism or (a) hate crime”.
“On Thursday after our Flinders Street rally, in the dead of night, while my family and I slept, our home became a target of terror. A firebomb, a weapon of hate, threatened the safety of my innocent two-year-old son, burning directly beneath his bedroom.”
In a video recorded at a demonstration and posted to Instagram, Tayeh demanded Victoria Police hold the people responsible accountable and asked supporters to “amplify his voice”.
“The police have failed to protect this community. There have been so many attacks, not just against me, but against so many of us and now this has hit home and bombs were thrown at my house.”
Victoria Police said it was investigating after the front door of a home was damaged in Templestowe Lower on Friday, April 19.
“It is believed an unknown offender threw what appears to have been a Molotov cocktail at the front of a house on High Street about 4am,” a spokesperson said.
“The bottle did not ignite and there was only minor damage to the door.”
Tayeh previously stated he believed the attack on the outlet was a hate crime related to his Palestinian activism and opposition to the Israeli attacks in Gaza.
But Victoria Police said there was no evidence linking the fire at Burgertory to a hate crime.
A pro-Palestinian group clashed with a pro-Israel crowd, with police pepper-spraying protesters as tensions ignited over the Gaza conflict.
xvf9 on
So last time this dude was firebombed he claimed it was to do with his political views, that was investigated by the police and found to be categorically untrue. Would be a wild coincidence if he was now being firebombed for political reasons, rather than the (much more common) reasons places are firebombed – criminal links and insurance fraud. Also, your regular reminder that foreign influence programs will often agitate for both sides of a hot button issue, even going to far as to arrange protest and counter-protest marches on the same issue, manufacturing them online to clash physically in person. Which is exactly what happened *last time this dude was firebombed and made the same claims*.
jdgordon on
The asshole almost started a pogrom because of his lies. Fuck him
Fawksyyy on
> Tayeh labelled the firebombing as either “terrorism or (a) hate crime”
*Readers note
Tayeh also claimed the same thing last time, Police instead linked the previous firebombing back to middle eastern gangs running the black market tobacco and vape shops.
Talk about the guy who cried Jew…
CostcoHotDogNSoda on
What happened to the last thread where the OP was accusing everyone of being Zionist shills?
jamesemelb on
Lots of firebombs in Melb related to the tobacco /vape store thing recently. I wondered whether these attacks may have been related to that, though a burger shop and home seem odd targets.
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The family home of the founder of the Burgertory chain and Palestinian activist Hash Tayeh was firebombed last week, the second time in the past five months that arsonists attacked a property connected to him.
A Molotov cocktail was thrown at Tayeh’s house in Templestowe Lower just after 5am on Friday, setting his front door alight.
It comes after the Burgertory outlet in Caulfield North was torched in November.
The latest incident was captured by two security cameras at the property, with footage showing a lone man standing at the edge of the driveway before lighting the bottle on fire and throwing it.
No one was injured in the attack but Tayeh said the petrol bomb struck just below the bedroom of his two-year-old son.
In a post on Instagram, Tayeh labelled the firebombing as either “terrorism or (a) hate crime”.
“On Thursday after our Flinders Street rally, in the dead of night, while my family and I slept, our home became a target of terror. A firebomb, a weapon of hate, threatened the safety of my innocent two-year-old son, burning directly beneath his bedroom.”
In a video recorded at a demonstration and posted to Instagram, Tayeh demanded Victoria Police hold the people responsible accountable and asked supporters to “amplify his voice”.
“The police have failed to protect this community. There have been so many attacks, not just against me, but against so many of us and now this has hit home and bombs were thrown at my house.”
Victoria Police said it was investigating after the front door of a home was damaged in Templestowe Lower on Friday, April 19.
“It is believed an unknown offender threw what appears to have been a Molotov cocktail at the front of a house on High Street about 4am,” a spokesperson said.
“The bottle did not ignite and there was only minor damage to the door.”
In November, the Caulfield North outlet of Tayeh’s Burgertory hamburger chain was destroyed in a firebombing. Two men were [arrested and charged](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Flink%2Ffollow-20170101-p5f957) for the attack, but the motive remains unclear.
Tayeh previously stated he believed the attack on the outlet was a hate crime related to his Palestinian activism and opposition to the Israeli attacks in Gaza.
But Victoria Police said there was no evidence linking the fire at Burgertory to a hate crime.
Heated scenes erupted outside the burger shop following the November attack, when [400 protesters gathered](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theage.com.au%2Flink%2Ffollow-20170101-p5ej1i) in the hours after the fire in response to a callout from Tayeh.
A pro-Palestinian group clashed with a pro-Israel crowd, with police pepper-spraying protesters as tensions ignited over the Gaza conflict.
So last time this dude was firebombed he claimed it was to do with his political views, that was investigated by the police and found to be categorically untrue. Would be a wild coincidence if he was now being firebombed for political reasons, rather than the (much more common) reasons places are firebombed – criminal links and insurance fraud. Also, your regular reminder that foreign influence programs will often agitate for both sides of a hot button issue, even going to far as to arrange protest and counter-protest marches on the same issue, manufacturing them online to clash physically in person. Which is exactly what happened *last time this dude was firebombed and made the same claims*.
The asshole almost started a pogrom because of his lies. Fuck him
> Tayeh labelled the firebombing as either “terrorism or (a) hate crime”
*Readers note
Tayeh also claimed the same thing last time, Police instead linked the previous firebombing back to middle eastern gangs running the black market tobacco and vape shops.
Talk about the guy who cried Jew…
What happened to the last thread where the OP was accusing everyone of being Zionist shills?
Lots of firebombs in Melb related to the tobacco /vape store thing recently. I wondered whether these attacks may have been related to that, though a burger shop and home seem odd targets.