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One of the most unexpected but strategically brilliant victories by the Long March left in Australia was their total subjugation of the Australian Football League. Where once AFL was the quintessential ‘Repressive Ideological State Apparatus’, the preserve of thickhead yobbos indelibly wedded to racism, sexism, whatever-ism the left could gibber about, today… well, it’s still the preserve of thickhead yobbos, but its thickhead yobbos reflexively bend the knee at the rainbow altar of Wokeness. Between the Welcome to Country, the half-time smoking ceremony, the half-time ‘entertainment’ by non-binary pansexual drag queen performance collectives, the Pride Round, the Indigenous Round, Pink Ribbon day, Wear It Purple day... it’s a wonder anyone actually finds time to actually play football any more.
But in a much-deserved blow to the WokeFL’s ridiculously inflated conceit about its own moral self-righteousness, the fart-sniffing league has been referred for investigation for anti-Semitism.
The AFL has been referred for investigation by the Royal Commission into anti-Semitism after it was revealed direct references to the “Jewish community” were removed from a pre-match tribute honouring victims of the Bondi terrorist attack.
They might not be directly stoking anti-Semitism, but they’re gutlessly pandering to it. It should surprise no one that the AFL’s Sydney branch is determined to keep its Western Sydney team alive. After 13 years, the Greater Western Sydney Giants still remain second from the bottom of the ladder when it comes to member numbers. Even the wooden spooners, the Gold Coast Suns, are growing at a faster rate.
Western Sydney, of course, means ‘Muslims’. Like the Albanese government, the ultra-woke AFL is terrified of pissing off this demographic. What easier way than by insulting Jews?
Embattled AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon failed to explain during a series of weekend interviews how a speech delivered by Sydney CEO Matthew Pavlich before the Opening Round Swans-Carlton match at the SCG had failed to mention the Jewish community.
“I don’t know what happened with the script,” Dillon told 3AW on Saturday.
But footy great Gerard Healy later revealed that “the script was changed” in a bid to de-politicise the tribute.
What a load of bollocks. Deliberately excluding Jewish Australians, the sole targets of the Islamic terrorists from Western Sydney, from any mention in their own memoriam is as politicised as it gets. It’s as egregiously insulting, and deliberately pandering to anti-Semitism, as the British government excising any mention of Jews from Holocaust Day materials. Or Hollywood’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures deliberately excluding Jews (until they were shamed into backtracking).
The move to delete the reference has incensed members of the Jewish community and prompted Victorian federal Senator James Paterson to refer the league to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.
In a letter to former High Court judge Virginia Bell, who is leading the commission, Mr Paterson said he encouraged her to “urgently request the AFL to preserve all documents and communications, including any correspondence with the Sydney Swans and any internal communications within the AFL, in relation to this matter”.
“It would be unfortunate if answers cannot be provided as to who ordered the removal of any references to the Jewish community or why they did so because documents were not retained by the AFL,” Mr Paterson said.
As Paterson says, “At a time where anti-Semitism has reached unprecedented levels in Australia, excuses and deflections are not good enough.”
The idea, too, that the AFL wants to be ‘above politics’ is such a barefaced lie that it’s almost laughable. This is, after all, the ultra-woke corporation that repeatedly threw its weight behind every lefty cause, from gay marriage to the Voice referendum.
But, when it comes to simply acknowledging the vicious persecution of Jewish Australians, the AFL is suddenly missing in action.
Funny about that.
“It is not an accident that the attack at Bondi occurred at a Jewish community event marking the first night of Chanukah nor that the overwhelming majority of victims were Jewish.
“Erasing their Jewish identity, as it appears the AFL has sought to do, is a travesty and an insult to the families of the victims.
“A key task for the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is to understand why so many of our institutions and leaders failed to understand and address growing anti-Semitism in our society prior to Bondi.
“It is incredibly disappointing that even after Bondi, influential institutions like the AFL are still clearly failing.”
Disappointing – but totally unsurprising, given how far the tentacles of the establishment left reach into the WokeFL.
The AFL’s government relations manager Bec Smith […] a senior adviser to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during his time as opposition leader, reports directly to AFL corporate affairs executive general manager Sharon McCrohan, an ex-ALP and CFMEU spin doctor.
And that, kids, is exactly how the Long March through the Institutions was planned to work.
