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.
Hash Tayeh is the Palestinian-Australian owner of Burgertory. Its Caulfield North outlet was bombed in November.Credit: The Age
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 police hold the people responsible and asked supporters to “amplify his voice”.