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Gary Lineker is embroiled in another Gaza row as he is accused of being 'tone-
deaf' after referring to the October 7 terror attacks in Israel as 'the Hamas
thing'





He says he cries on a regular basis....

Gary Lineker has been slammed for making 'tone-deaf' comments after
seemingly referring to the October 7 attacks on Israel as 'the Hamas thing'.


The controversy-prone BBC commentator made the remark on the British-
American broadcaster Medhi Hasan's Medhi Unfiltered programme.

Discussing the ongoing war in Gaza, Lineker said: 'I can't think of anything
that I've seen worse in my lifetime. The constant images of children losing
their lives day in, day out.

'Now obviously we all know October 7 happened, and the Hamas thing, but
the minute you raise your voice against what they're now doing there, you
get accused of being a supporter of Hamas.'

A spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) said: 'Gary is
not a lone heroic voice: he is one of a mob offering up one-sided, tone-deaf
interventions on social media.

'It has not escaped anyone's notice that, despite his clear interest in the topic
and social media habit, he has barely commented on the worst anti-Semitic
atrocity since the Holocaust on October 7 - 'the Hamas thing', as he now
reluctantly referred to it in passing.'

The CAA added: 'Far from being silenced, Mr Lineker's stance has become so
normalised - and the voice of the mob of which he is part has grown so loud -
that the BBC is desensitised to it and regularly ignores the clear breaches of
its impartiality guidelines that these interventions represent.'

His comments came as part of an interview with Guardian columnist and
prominant Israeli critic Mehdi Hasan for 'independant and unfliltered' news
site Zeteo.

The former England captain, 63, has previously landed himself in hot water
for his political interventions which critics see as flagrant breaches of the
BBC's impartiality rules.


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