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Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6185075/Jeremy-Corbyn-calls-boycott-Arsenal-FC-advertised-Israeli-tourist-destinations.html

Corbyn Demanded Boycott of British Soccer Club over Israeli Tourism Sponsorship

(Daily Mail-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn demanded a boycott of the Arsenal soccer club after Israeli holiday destinations were advertised at the stadium. "We must campaign against and boycott Arsenal football club for their arrangement with the Israeli tourist board," Corbyn told the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Trade Union Conference in 2006. "It is wrong to treat both parties [Israel and the Palestinians] as equals." Listed as a speaker alongside Corbyn at the 2006 conference was preacher Daud Abdullah, who called for attacks on the Royal Navy if it tried to prevent arms smuggling into Gaza, and led a boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day.

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