Gary Lineker, the former English footballer and star BBC presenter, proclaims: “I cannot remain silent about what is happening in Gaza”

It is impossible for him to remain silent, to look away and to contain the emotion which overwhelms him in the face of the horror of the genocide in Gaza, Gary Lineker, the former English footballer converted into a sports journalist on the BBC, is seized with fear and do not hide it.

Deeply shocked, overwhelmed, distressed, he celebrated presenter of the show Match of the Day has a heart that bleeds in the face of the unbearable martyrdom of the population of the Palestinian enclave so cruelly bruised, and makes it known without veiled words. No offense to all the prosecutors, censors and other furiously pro-Israeli lauders…

“ I am not Muslim. I'm not Jewish. I am not Israeli. I am not Palestinian. So I see, I think only from the outside, from a neutral point of view. I can't think of anything worse that I have ever seen in my life, the constant images of children losing their lives day after day is unbearable. When I see images of Gaza on social media, I cry all the time “, he told Al Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hasan in an interview on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

There is no question for Gary Lineker of repressing his feelings, of holding back his tears, of taking refuge behind blinders and of muzzling himself, at a time when one of the most appalling massacres of modern times is taking place live, under our helpless eyes, and worse, with complete impunity. A genocide which, although screaming truth to the point of unspeakability, does not speak its name, because it is the work of Zionist barbarism.

“ We all know that the Hamas incident happened on October 7. But right now, as soon as you raise your voice against what Israel is doing there, you are immediately accused of being a supporter of Hamas. There is a lot of lobbying to silence people. But I cannot stay silent about what is happening in Gaza “, he insisted.

And to drive the point home: “ I don't think it's anti-Semitic to say that what Israel is doing is bad, atrocious. I don't understand why the condemnation of Israel is not unanimous. Whatever the reason, whatever the trigger, we all know that the history of this tragedy goes back much further than October 7.”