Port Adelaide are investigating board member and premiership captain Warren Tredrea after he was slammed for allegedly promoting anti-Semitic theories on social media.
Tredrea will remain on the club’s AFL board while it performs a ‘formal governance review’ of the 46-year-old.
Port’s move comes after The Jewish Council of Australia objected to an Instagram post from Tredrea related to comments about Israel from a guest on the retired footballer’s podcast.
‘(The council) is deeply disturbed by the amplification of far-right anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in this Instagram post and podcast episode,’ executive officer Max Kaiser said in a statement.
Port chairman David Koch said the club maintained ‘comprehensive governance standards’.
‘Directors and officials of the club are entitled to their personal views, however there are concerns that recent content published is in breach of these standards,’ Koch said in a statement.
‘The club is committed to upholding the professional standards our members, partners and the community expect and deserve.’
In a podcast segment posted to Tredrea’s social media, he hosted a former soldier who put forward the conspiracy theories.
Port Adelaide board member Warren Tredrea (right, with partner Bianca left) is under review by the Power following concerns over content shared on his Instagram account
Mr Tredrea (pictured), a premiership captain and four-time All Australian, was elected to the club’s board in early 2024
Tredea wrote a response to public criticisms on his own Instagram account on Wednesday.
‘I unequivocally condemn war and genocide, and seek only to share other perspectives of what has been a very one-way reported narrative in the mainstream media,’ he wrote.
‘I am not in any way, shape, or form, an anti-Semite, and consider it defamatory for anyone to accuse me as such.
‘The purpose of my podcast has been not to shine a light on my own personal views and opinions, but rather to provide a platform for others to present their views and opinions in an unfiltered forum.’
Tredrea is revered and considered among Port’s greatest AFL players. He is a four-time All Australian and captained the club to their only premiership in 2004.
After a decorated 255-game playing career between 1997 and 2010, Tredrea moved into the media in Adelaide.
Tredrea joined Channel Nine in 2013.
He was dismissed in 2021 for refusing the company’s Covid vaccine edict and lost a court appeal seeking $6million in lost wages.
The case was dismissed in the Federal Court last year after Nine argued his contract was not up for renewal.
Tredrea (above) said he condemns war and genocide and denies being anti-Semitic
