International Cricket Council Deny Uzzie's Plan to Wear Pro-Palestinian Shoes

And so doom the Middle East to war

Come on everybody, chant it with me …

“International Cricket Council you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide!”

And again, at the top of your voice …

“ICC and USA, how many kids did you kill today?”

We are chanting against cricket’s governing body because they have stopped cricketer Usman Khawaja from ending the war in Gaza.

The Australian batsman had planned to wear shoes bearing anti-war slogans during today’s First Test match in Perth.

The opening bat, who happens to be Muslim, had written on his shoes …

“All lives are equal”

As if that wasn’t a war-stopper in and of itself, he also wrote …

“Freedom is a human right”.

Give him the Noble Peace Prize already!

The words - though admittedly ambiguous - would surely have pricked the heart of Hamas warlord Yahya Sinwar as he watched the day’s play from his bunker deep beneath whatever kids hospital he is using as a shield these days.

No-one can say for sure when the terrorist leader, inspired by Kawajah’s shoes, would have declared Hamas’ innings of slaughtering Jews over.

Maybe after tea on the second day.

Maybe around lunch time on day three as the pitch started to turn.

We’ll never know.

The war mongers at cricket headquarters shut Khawaja’s peace plan down, insisting that players were not permitted to display “political” messages on their uniforms, even if they would have ended the war.

Thanks to the ICC, Sinwar will never see Khawaja’s poignant shoe protest. And so the war will go on and as a direct consequence, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, a bazillion kids will be killed by Israel during the afternoon drinks break on day one of the Test against Pakistan.

If this isn’t proof that Zionists control world cricket, I don’t know what is.

Cynics will scoff at that idea that a message written on a shoe, worn in the middle of Optus Stadium in Perth, could end the war in the Middle East.

But that’s only because they lack imagination. And ego.

If you were a self-important cricketer, you would already know that you can lower global temperatures by refusing to fulfil commitments to your energy company sponsor.

And you would know that you can end racism by forming a barefoot circle before play at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

There’s literally nothing sportspeople cannot accomplish if they are indulged by woke sporting bodies.

A dejected Usman Khawaja told followers on social media that he would obey the ICC’s directive, and leave his peace shoes at home.

To some, this might seem weak; almost like he is prepared to put a game of cricket before ending a war.

But Usman promised to “fight” for the right to conduct shoe diplomacy. Long live the Nike resistance!

Come on, chant with me …

“From the river to the sea, Usman must be allowed to wear his special shoes with messages on them”

Obviously I’m still working on that particular chant.

Anyway …

Usman Khawaja is not without his critics.

Some have questioned whether the cricketer really believes that “all lives are equal”.

They point out that he didn’t write anything on his shoe after Jews were raped, beheaded, burned alive, kidnapped and murdered by Hamas.

But that’s unfair.

Slogans like “freedom is a human right” don’t just come to you. They require weeks, indeed almost two months of thought, before they crystallise in a cricketer’s mind.

The fact that it did not crystallise in time to protest the slaughter of Jews is a technicality, and one of those things that just happens from time to time.

The same people criticised UN Women for taking more than 50 days to acknowledge sexual violence against Jewish women on October 7. But, again, that was hardly fair. Tweets don’t just write themselves.

The fact that Usman Khawaja’s plea for the fighting to stop comes only when Hamas is under attack, and not when Jews were slaughtered, is pure coincidence.

Australia’s entire World Cup campaign began a day after Hamas started the war by committing the biggest mass slaughter of innocent Jews since the Holocaust. There was not a peep from Khawaja for 6 weeks on cricket’s biggest stage about Jewish babies massacred. But NOW he’s found his voice. Again, pure coincidence.

Others ask why, if all lives are equal, Khamaja wrote his message in the colours of the Palestinian flag rather than in the blue and white of the Israeli flag, or in a combination of the two.

And why didn’t he write “Free the hostages” on his shoe?

Do you know, he would have?

In fact he was was about to.

Seriously.

But his dog ate the blue and white pens. And besides, he ran out of ink.

And if you believe that, you probably believe that a cricketer’s shoe can stop a war.