English Premier League clubs accused of sportswashing Israel's atrocities

Four English Premier League clubs have treated pro-Palestinian staff and supporters “in ways that may breach the right to freedom of expression and/ or amount to discrimination”, War on Want said on Monday. 

In a new report investigating English clubs’ complicity in Israel’s atrocities, the campaign group named Arsenal, Brighton, Burnley and Everton as clubs who had singled out staff or supporters in this way.

Following an investigation into clubs’ corporate ties and sponsorship deals, War on Want said that at least nine out of the 20 clubs in the Premier League are “directly sponsored by companies complicit in Israel’s atrocities”. 

These clubs are Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur. 

The report concluded that Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City and Manchester United were the clubs most emmeshed with companies facilitating Israeli atrocities.

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