DREADCRIMINATION - The RSL Is Anti-Semitic

[UPDATE] See the clarification at the base of this post.*

::An Innocent Start::

DREADNOUGHT and King David (the Jew, my boyfriend) went along to the City RSL in Sydney tonight for Grogblogging, a function for bloggers. To start with the venue was a dive, serious sticky carpet, advertisements for wet tee-shirt competitions, etc. You know the kind of place.

A Proud History Betrayed

::Trouble::

My Jew was wearing a hat. Like millions of young Jews he wears modern headwear when going out in place of a yarmulka (skullcap). He was repeatedly told, not asked, to take it off. It was not some garish thing, it was a simply designed beanie. We mentioned when signing in that it was a religious issue. Each time someone told him to remove it, we told the guys my boy is a Jew. Finally, after being in the venue a total of 15 mins, a huge Islander bouncer ordered him to take the hat off from across the bar. This was the final straw.

::Too Much::

I confronted the bouncer and attempted to explain the issue. He wouldn't listen, he just mouthed some rubbish about 'respect' (yeah, like RSL's have anything to do with the glorious war dead and nothing to do with tawdry pokie machines and cheap tit-shows). In a righteous rage I rejected my beer, snatched back my cash and we left the building, both of us quite bravely - in retrospect - giving the huge Islander bouncers an enormous amount of lip.

::'The Price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance::

DREADNOUGHT doesn't cause trouble for no reason. My Jew was already feeling under the weather and wasn't drinking and certainly wasn't being a nuisance. He was just a young Jew.

The RSL Once Belonged to Men Who Defeated Anti-Semites

A club is a club and club rules go, but a Jew covers his head as a sign of obedience to God. To claim that some bullshit and arbitrary rule should intervene between the chosen people and the first covenant forged on Sinai ten thousand years ago is a joke. On this anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe, a victory that meant that Jewish people could practice their religion without fear of retribution, it is an outrage.

Nice one RSL, you've finally sold out everything you once stood for.

::Tell the Bastards What You Think::

Let the RSL know that anti-Semitism is not on:

Returned Servicemens' League New South Wales

ANZAC House 245 Castlereagh Street SYDNEY NSW Australia 2000 Telephone: (+61 2) 9264 8188 Facsimile: (+61 2) 9264 8466 Email: statsec@rslnsw.com.au

City of Sydney RSL

Westminster House 565 George Street SYDNEY NSW Australia 2000 Telephone :(+61 2) 9264 6281 Facsimile: (+61 2) 9264 9041 Email: admin@cityofsydneyrsl.com.au

*(The RSL(NSW) is not anti-Semitic, rather it has come to DREADNOUGHT's attention that the policy is probably the province of the people who own/run the City of Sydney RSL Club Ltd).