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LONDON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- The Israeli manager of Britain's Chelsea Football Club has become the target of an anti-Semitic hate campaign that has inspired a counter-campaign.
The e-mails and letters received by Avram Grant and his wife became public when the soccer team's training ground was evacuated Tuesday, The Times of London reported. Someone sent an envelope full of white powder.
Denis MacShane, a member of Parliament and former Labor Europe minister, has launched an effort to rid soccer of anti-Semitism. MacShane said he has been receiving hate-filled e-mails, many of them copied to Grant and to Roman Abramovich, Chelsea's owner.
"I believe that the time may have come to launch a parallel movement to kick anti-Semitism out of football, as well as the general Kick Racism out of Football campaign, which has been very successful," MacShane said.
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