Premier League sponsors complicit in Israel’s crimes

JVL Introduction

WAR ON WANT’s new report Red Card: Complicity in Israel’s Atrocities against the Palestinians is an exposure of the extent to which many  English Premier League clubs have corporate sponsors who are profiting from Israel occupation and wars.

War on Want says nine Premier League clubs — Arsenal, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur — have sponsors it considers “complicit,” while Brighton and Burnley are listed as having partners “at risk of complicity.”

The companies mentioned include AXA, BP, Canon, Carlsberg, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Eurobank, Evelyn Partners, Expedia/Hotels.com, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Oracle and Sony.

Merely to list them is to show how intertwined the world of global sport is with that of corporate capital – and shows the scale of the problem we face in campaigning for significant change.

War on Want provides a long list of recommendations addressed to clubs, supporters, governments and corporate sponsors themselves.

The bottom line is that companies including financial institutions complicit in war crimes and serious human rights violations should be banned from sponsoring football and from owning clubs.

We have a long way to go…

RK

This article was originally published by the Morning Star on Mon 18 May 2026. Read the original here.