{"id":100143,"date":"2022-12-05T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=100143"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T09:52:26","slug":"04-00-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=100143","title":{"rendered":"Fury as Australian Jewish Footballer Is Subjected to Antisemitic Hate Following Newspaper Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Fury as Australian Jewish Footballer Is Subjected to Antisemitic Hate Following Newspaper Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Harry Sheezel is the first Jewish player to be drafted into the AFL since 1999. Photo: Reuters\/James Ros<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A young Jewish athlete who was drafted into one of the top teams in the Australian Football League (AFL) has pushed back against the shower of antisemitic abuse he received following the announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy initial reaction was I kind of found it quite disrespectful, obviously,\u201d 18-year-old Harry Sheezel told The Australian <\/em>on Monday. \u201cI think they\u2019re just ignorant and uneducated and they\u2019re probably not sure about the impact that stuff can have, but to be honest, I don\u2019t let that stuff affect me.<\/span><\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI just think those people probably need to learn and they need to find out that that\u2019s not right or tolerated in today\u2019s society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheezel is the first Jewish player since 1999 to be drafted into the AFL \u2014 one of the most popular sports in Australia that is played with an oval ball and incorporates techniques similar to rugby, soccer and American football. He will play for the AFL\u2019s North Melbourne franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dozens of antisemitic posts targeting Sheezel invoked stereotypes of Jews and mocked the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis teammates should not expect him to shout end of season drinks,\u201d one post read. Others were much cruder: \u201cA jew (sic) actually doing physical exercise? Fake news,\u201d read one, while another, in a Holocaust reference, questioned whether Sheezel had \u201cenough gas in the tank.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The comments were left on the Facebook page of the Melbourne Age<\/em> newspaper after it published a profile of Sheezel. The post was removed once the paper\u2019s social media team was made aware of the hateful comments. All other posts linking to the article on social media were restricted to prevent further comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disgraceful and disappointing that sewer-dwellers on social media took such a story and turned it into an excuse for vile antisemitic abuse,\u201d the Age\u2019s<\/em> editor, Michael Bachelard, said in a statement.\u201cComments were not blocked or adequately moderated until the issue was drawn to our attention, when the situation was rectified. For this, we apologize to Harry Sheezel and the broader Jewish community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheezel is a graduate of Mount Scopus, a Jewish school in Melbourne where his AFL success was warmly celebrated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHarry has been a Scopus student throughout his school career, and at every stage of his journey to the AFL has shown that he is a proud member of the school community and of the wider Jewish community,\u201d said Rabbi James Kennard, the school\u2019s principal, in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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