Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) has made geopolitical news a few times this year thanks to a new policy: As of March, it bans from Scotiabank Arena “signs, symbols, images, flags, clothing, banners that may be considered vulgar, discriminatory, disrespectful, political or a tool to be used for incitement or protest.”

It was clearly designed to keep the Palestinian-Israeli conflict out of hockey and basketball games and that’s where it has proven controversial. Two Toronto lawyers initially ran afoul of the policy for wearing to a Raptors game hoodies displaying a star of David and the declaration, “bring our hostages home.” They chose to leave sooner than take them off. Last week, a video surfaced on social media of a man being turfed from a Raptors game apparently for wearing a hat with a pro-Palestinian message.