Subhead:Incident caught on camera in Sydney underscores the climate of intimidation facing Australia’s Jewish community.#
AutoServe Mobile Mechanics, a Western Sydney Muslim family-owned business has declined to apologise after staff were caught on camera yelling “Jewish rat” during an incident involving me in the city.
The abuse was captured while I was reporting in Sydney, when a car drove past my team as someone inside the vehicle shouted the slur.
🚨 Staff from a Muslim ‘family business’ yelled ‘Jewish rat’ at me as they drove past in Sydney
The company initially DENIED it.
Then disappeared when I said we CAUGHT IT ON CAMERA.https://t.co/fCD9JjSSDA, you seem nice.Internet, do your thing.
Full video:… pic.twitter.com/KcRiQEtPx2
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) March 5, 2026
I’ve spoken publicly about feeling increasingly unsafe in parts of Sydney as a Jewish public figure. The incident came as I was working on another story involving a confrontation with a reporter from The Australian.
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