‘ZOG’: Antisemitic graffiti at Arsenal stadium after UK team unveils Israeli-founded sponsor |
The Arsenal soccer team’s home stadium in London was vandalized this week with antisemitic graffiti, days after the British club announced a sponsorship by tech company Deel, whose co-founder is Israeli.
“No Deel ZOG,” the graffiti spotted on Monday night read, using an acronym for “Zionist Occupied Government,” a term popularized by white supremacists and deployed for anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.
It appeared after Arsenal won the Premier League championship for the first time in 22 years.
London’s Metropolitan Police, referring to the graffiti as antisemitic, said it was investigating the incident, but that no arrests have yet been made. It is being treated as racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage, police said in a statement.
Deel creates human-resources and payroll software, used by some 40,000 businesses around the world. Co-founded in 2019 by French-Israeli entrepreneur Alex Bouaziz and China-born Shuo Wang, the company is incorporated in the US state of Delaware.
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