Published: 14 December 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Gary Lineker hounded on Twitter for sharing video of caged Palestinian children (Middle East Eye)
Former England footballer Gary Lineker has been hounded by Israel supporters on Twitter after sharing a video of young Palestinian children being held in a small cage by Israeli forces.
The video, published by the human rights group B'tselem, shows Israeli soldiers gathering and violently detaining Palestinian youths in Hebron in the illegally occupied West Bank, on 13 October.
Lineker, who now presents the BBC's flagship Match of the Day highlights show, shared a tweet containing the video which had originally been posted by Ben White, a pro-Palestinian journalist and activist and occasional Middle East Eye contributor, and added the comment "sickening".
Critics of Gary Lineker are missing the point (Jewish Chronicle)
If the contents of the video the Match of the Day presenter shared damage Israel, it is because the West Bank occupation damages Israel
