Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has met with Australian PM Anthony Albanese to push the government to punish Israel. Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has issued a passionate plea to save the children of Gaza, calling on the Australian government to increase sanctions on Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Then in February 2025, Khawaja went in to bat for newspaper-cricket writer Peter Lalor, who was dismissed by SEN radio for publicly sharing one-sided anti-Israel content. Dressing it up in cricket whites and buzzwords doesn’t change the fact that he’s playing a dangerous innings – one that emboldens Hamas and demonizes Israel. And no matter how many symbolic sneakers he wears, it doesn’t disguise where his bat is really swinging.