Jonathan Yaniv is, well, I don’t quite know how to describe this so let’s stick with a narrative.
Rather than provide a potentially inaccurate summary, I have copied and pasted the words of Anna Slatz, a freelance writer and friend to Yaniv’s victim, Amy Hamm.
To ensure that I do not contravene Mumsnet guidelines, I have had to make a few minor edits to remove references and links to a Fundrazr that Anna set up to help Amy but the narrative remains the same.
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On January 13, 2020, Amy Eileen Hamm of GIDYVR was sent by the Post Millennial to report live from the courthouse in Surrey where Jessica Yaniv was being heard on multiple prohibited weapons charges.
During a brief hearing recess, Amy went to the restroom where she saw Jessica Yaniv. She immediately exited the restroom. Yaniv accused Amy of taking photos of Yaniv in the restroom and demanded RCMP search her phone. The RCMP did so, and found no evidence that Amy had taken any photos.
Amy had been live-texting Twitter user GoinglikeElsieand I in a group chat the entire recess.
That same day, Yaniv violently assaulted Keean Bexte, a journalist with the Rebel Media. The RCMP are currently investigating this assault, which was caught on video.
In wake of the subsequent media blowback following the assault, and in an apparent attempt to have media banned from future court hearings for criminal activity, Yaniv has chosen to defame Amy Eileen Hamm, a young mother and feminist activist.
On January 15, 2020, Yaniv posted to their Twitter that Amy had sexually assaulted Yaniv at the Surrey courthouse. Yaniv contacted the RCMP and demanded an investigation be open into this entirely fabricated sexual assault.
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On January 16, Amy retained the services of Jay Cameron of theJustice Centre for Constitutional Freedomsto pursue a case of defamation against Jessica Yaniv. Jay Cameron is a lawyer with the JCCF, a pro-bono firm which seeks to defend human rights and dignity in the face of seemingly overwhelming constitutional challenges. In 2019, the JCCF successfully defended four of the racialized women aestheticians Jessica Yaniv had taken to the BC Human Rights Tribunal for declining to wax Yaniv's male genitalia.
Because the JCCF has a specific mandate of focusing oninstitutional and constitutional cases, JayCameron is working independently from the JCCF for this case, with the assistance of anotherlawyer in British Columbia.
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The JCCF is presently tackling [edit] Yaniv's persecution of yet another Sikh-owned aesthetic salon who declined to wax Yaniv's male genitals.
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