{"id":7378,"date":"2025-05-25T23:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2025-05-25T23:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T21:04:56","slug":"arsenal-fired-mark-for-standing-against-genocide-support-the-legal-battle-for-reinstating-him-and-palestinian-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elsc.support\/de\/arsenal-fired-mark-for-standing-against-genocide-support-the-legal-battle-for-reinstating-him-and-palestinian-solidarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal fired Mark for standing against genocide. Support the legal battle for reinstating him and Palestinian solidarity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bonnick, Arsenal\u2019s kit man, for 12 years and was self-employed for 10 years prior totalling 22 years of service and lifelong fan,\u00a0<strong>was wrongfully fired for speaking out<\/strong>\u00a0against Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza. While Arsenal\u2019s billion-dollar industry profits from \u201cunity\u201d slogans, Arsenal silenced Mark, a working-class worker and lifelong supporter for speaking out against a live-streamed genocide.<br>Football has always been a front line of anti-racist struggle, yet Arsenal are undermining this tradition. From stadiums to workplaces, support for Palestinian liberation is being criminalised. But football fans are refusing to stay silent.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Football fans stand with Palestine! \u00a0<br><br><strong>We stand with Mark. And we cannot let Arsenal get away with this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Legal Support Center is taking Arsenal Football Club to court for several violations to the law including:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Direct anti-Zionist belief discrimination and associative direct Palestinian race discrimination (section 13(1), EA 2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harassment (section 26, EA 2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unfair Dismissal (section 94(1), Employment Rights Act 1996 (\u2018ERA 1996\u2019)).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Our legal action comes with hefty costs that mount up to <strong>\u00a315,000<\/strong>. These funds will be used to cover court fees, campaign operations and legal aid for Mark.\u00a0<br><br>Your donations, no matter how small, could make an impact, and will contribute to our battle against repression and silencing of free speech in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons has-custom-font-size has-medium-font-size is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-theme-palette-9-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/arsenalmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DONATE NOW<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bonnick, Arsenal\u2019s kit man, for 12 years and was self-employed for 10 years prior totalling 22 years of service and lifelong fan, was wrongfully fired for speaking out against Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza. 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