Burgertory owner charged

Police have charged Burgertory owner Hash Tayeh with using insulting words in public.

The burger chain owner allegedly chanted “all Zionist are terrorists” four times at a pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne last year.

Zionism Victoria Executive Director Zeddy Lawrence said: “Given the overwhelming majority of Jews in Victoria, Australia and, indeed, the world would identify as Zionists, besmirching the latter is akin to painting a target on the former.

And tragically, the spike in antisemitism on these shores, which has shamed Australia globally, is indicative of where misrepresenting the truth about Zionism can lead.”