Arsenal sued for sacking employee over anti-Zionist views as UK free speech crackdown deepens – Middle East Monitor

Arsenal Football Club is facing a legal challenge after firing a long-serving staff member for expressing anti-Zionist views online, an incident that has further exposed the widening assault on pro-Palestinian speech in the UK.

Mark Bonnick, a lifelong Arsenal supporter who worked at the club’s youth academy for 22 years, was sacked on Christmas Eve 2023 after posting on social media about Israel’s war on Gaza, including calling Israel an apartheid state and…