Former English footballer Gary Lineker has expressed deep emotional distress over the situation in Gaza, stating it's the worst he's seen in his lifetime. Lineker has been vocal about the atrocities in Gaza, emphasizing it's not antisemitic to criticize Israel's actions and highlighting the heavy lobbying for silence on the matter. Despite facing criticism for his views, Lineker remains resolute in speaking out and has garnered significant attention for his stance.
BBC star Gary Lineker says critics of his political views and online posts have a 'lack of empathy' and says he will carry on because he would be 'ashamed' to stay quiet https://t.co/2mx9oMCxxs https://t.co/PdjYTvpEox
Gary Lineker’s anti-Israel invective is relentless. He skirts over ‘the Hamas thing’ to condemn the Jewish State as prosecuting a ‘genocidal’ war. He has let his feelings run away from the facts, says Jake Wallis Simons https://t.co/UFPv4KYKyC
“Gary Lineker has a following of almost 9 million on X. It’s almost entirely due to his knowledge of football and crisps and these are the topics on which he’s qualified to speak, not complex geopolitics.” This was unfortunately exemplified recently when @GaryLineker referred to… https://t.co/4zg1wFapyO
BBC Match Of The Day presenter @garylineker has caused outrage by referring to the 7 Oct atrocities as "a Hamas thing". It's all so trivial Gary, only 1,200 Israeli civilians were murdered. https://t.co/skHOmViNeO
Gary Lineker sparks fury AGAIN with 'deeply offensive' Israel remarks, and BBC bias row grows along with £42m license fee bailiffs bust-up 'If the BBC is cash-strapped, stop targeting the poor and get his OUTRAGEOUS salary off the books!' 📺 Watch now: https://t.co/8cIkxjdAsu https://t.co/ZsszinWkDk
Imagine if Gary Lineker referred to: 7/7 bombings as the “Underground thing” 9/11 as the “Bin Laden thing” The Holocaust as “the Auschwitz thing” The death of Lee Rigby as the “meat cleaver thing” He would face more calls to apologise. So why not with “the Hamas thing”?
Gary Lineker has fallen for Hamas propaganda. He has condemned the war in Gaza as the worst thing he’s seen in his lifetime. There is no factual basis for this whatsoever. This isn’t humanitarianism – it is useful idiocy, says Jake Wallis Simons https://t.co/UFPv4KYKyC
In an inexplicable interview with internet provocateur Mehdi Hasan about the Gaza war, Gary Lineker skipped over the Hamas atrocities with an almost comical lightness of foot before getting his teeth into Israel. ‘Obviously we all know, you know, 7 October happened’, he said…
While speaking to Mehdi Hasan on his channel Zeteo on Friday, former footballer Gary Lineker said that the images coming out of Gaza are “the worst thing” he has seen in his lifetime and that they make him cry “on a regular basis”. https://t.co/yE7COBUuIo
"It's not antisemitic to say what Israel is doing is wrong." Gary Lineker defends his stance on Israel's relentless bombardment of Gaza. https://t.co/gAdARs0TPM
Julia Hartley-Brewer furiously blasts Gary Lineker after he referred to the October 7th attacks as ‘the Hamas thing’. “Are you effing kidding me Gary? The Hamas thing! What is he talking about?” @JuliaHB1 https://t.co/M2yGJogpNV
"It's not anti-Semitic to say that what Israel is doing is wrong." Former English footballer Gary Lineker says that, having viewed the war on Gaza with a neutral perspective, he admits it is "the worst thing" he has witnessed in his lifetime. https://t.co/0jXzOt07bo
Gary Lineker said that he’s in tears over Gaza photos. I don’t recall him saying similar over photos of Christians being slaughtered by Islamists in Nigeria. Or when over half a million people were killed in Syria, or massacred in Yemen and Myanmar. His emotions are selective.
Gary Lineker says he 'cries on a regular basis' over Gaza as he wades into Middle East politics https://t.co/OTqUjPjwBe
“I’m getting on a bit now, I’m fairly secure, I can’t be silent” - a whopping two million of you, in less than 24 hrs, have now watched Gary Lineker explain to me why he’s speaking out on Gaza, unlike a lot of other celebs. Please do support Zeteo here: https://t.co/20UUcW06TK https://t.co/2QY1gqFwxT
Gary Lineker says what’s happening in Gaza is “the worst thing I’ve seen in my lifetime” and raising that points leads to accusations of “being a supporter of Hamas.” Accusations that have a chilling effect on others. https://t.co/rXgztmNtyb https://t.co/RkFGgC0LNQ
🗣️ "I don't think you can be silent" Gary Lineker has explained why he feels compelled to voice his opinion on the Gaza crisis https://t.co/Imap4ubjuZ https://t.co/ephSdvDncn
"I cry on a regular basis when I see certain images on social media" Sports broadcaster Gary Lineker spoke with Mehdi Hasan about the atrocities committed against Palestinians in Gaza, saying that he couldn't recall witnessing anything worse in his lifetime https://t.co/cVnKCpPye5
Gary Lineker insists he WON'T stop speaking out on Gaza saying: 'There's a lot of heavy lobbying on people to be quiet but I can't be silent' https://t.co/u9claFJXpe https://t.co/Ltbk0J1RQP
Gary Lineker says what UK Media refuses to: “It’s not antisemitic to say what Israel does is wrong. There’s a lot of heavy lobbying on people to be quiet. Its the worse I have seen in my lifetime: the constant images of Palestinian children being killed. I can’t be silent." https://t.co/fMEHcqFzH7
"Gary Lineker", the famous English football player, in response to the continuous crimes of the Israelis in the Gaza: What is happening is really terrible, I cry when I see the pictures in the media. https://t.co/LCdRYvE7o6
🇬🇧🇵🇸 Gary Lineker on Palestine - Israel: "It's the worst thing I've seen in my lifetime — there's a lot of heavy lobbying on people to be quiet." https://t.co/ltdO4eXe1F
"It's not antisemitic to say what Israel is doing is wrong" - Gary Lineker to me https://t.co/2QY1gqFwxT
Gary Lineker is responding exactly how every public figure would be responding if they genuinely saw Palestinians as equal human beings. To those public figures reading this tweet and feeling shame: that's exactly what you should be feeling. https://t.co/WyCkfLl2mj
Gary Lineker is responding exactly how every public figure would be behaving if they genuinely saw Palestinians as equal human beings. To those public figures reading this tweet and feeling shame: that's exactly what you should be feeling. https://t.co/WyCkfLl2mj
This song by Terez Sliman has been on repeat since the beginning of #GazaGenocide, whenever I need to cry for my homeland 🇵🇸❤️🩹😞 https://t.co/SyANfN0sOp
"It's the worst thing I've seen in my lifetime." British broadcaster & football legend @garylineker talks Gaza with me on #MehdiUnfiltered and reveals: "I cry on a regular basis when I see certain images on social media." Full show: https://t.co/Pk6BzTJQnx https://t.co/Jk6VDEVBcI