“Really Is Despicable!” Gary Lineker SLAMMED For Calling October 7 Attacks ‘The Hamas Thing’

Talk’s Kevin O’Sullivan and Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Stephen Silverman hit out at Gary Lineker after he referred to the October 7th attacks as ‘the Hamas thing’.
In an interview on Mehdi Hasan’s Mehdi Unfiltered programme, the Match Of The Day presenter 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”, Lineker added.
Stephen says: “It just goes to show how ignorant he is of the history of the Jewish people… it really is despicable!”
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[@LucyPink-jq9bu]

Garry is a nobody

[@simonchristian5560]

You are correct. No one has heard of him.

[@Jazzypooisawesome]

At least we know who he is,who are this pair?

[@Camille_Anderson]

@@Jazzypooisawesome it shouldn't matter who either of them are - the problem is an entitled millionaire reducing a terrorist attack as simply "a thing" when it was a horrendous act and the one responsible for the implementation of Israel's response. Regardless of sides, Gary's words were not intelligent.

[@no1arab502]

Think he hit the nail on the head to be honest

[@shamz6953]

You don't even know if you're a man or woman. Ssshhh.

[@niguel4438]

The Hamas thing from the thick ignoramos thing.

[@user-vt5yd4od8m]

Flatterer

[@hubertagamasu6283]

On point

[@MrMegan1962]

How would he describe the Manchester arena bombing, that Manchester thing. Horrible little man.

[@englishboy993]

You can blame that on the U.S their wars in the middle east triggered their hatred. My common sheep

[@SusanKGreen-zu3xb]

Didn't you Brits have a bus bombing too? Is it called 7/7?

[@MrMegan1962]

@@SusanKGreen-zu3xb yer we did your correct

[@kiwifulla7370]

A massive can't

[@andrewganner6581]

Liniker is just a BBC hypocrite and he needs sacking

[@DavidGetling]

Lineker and the BBC are a perfect match for one another. Since the 7th October the BBC hasn't once called Hamas a terrorist organisation. In fact, I'm struggling to recall if the BBC has even condemned Hamas.

[@TG-ts3xn]

The Islamic thing

[@mcfcguvnors]

the we are fighting over 2 dumb books episode

[@Leigh-ry3yb]

You need to wake up to the Talmud but you won't because that would involve thinking and reading not your strong points I suspect.

[@iansmith788]

Gary Lineker moves with the left wing tide, he is a massive virtue signaller of the worst kind.

[@JaniceHorner-oo4vl]

I would sooner watch paint dry than watch Lineker on Match of the Day. He has no brain cells, because if he had he would not have referred to what happened on October 7 as a 'thing.' He is an utter waste of money, boring and very off key as to what is going on around the globe.

[@rorycarroll9870]

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[@SKYViv]

FREE FREE the HOSTAGES.​@@rorycarroll9870

[@ghostontheline]

Lineker our national Disgrace…..

[@pspops-kw2we]

our national donkey

[@Strength_Saint.]

So he's a national disgrace for showing humanity?

[@phillipembury2271]

@@Strength_Saint. No, he's a disgrace for being a rampant anti Semite.

[@KatharinaK117]

​@@Strength_Saint.NO!

[@kevind6956]

@@Strength_Saint. Humanity....?? Sre you mad.

[@janjan12646]

Lineker is lacking in empathy How dare he describe the massacre in such a flippant way is appalling Shame on you Gary

[@pmoran7971]

janjan How would you describe the massacre of I million Palestinians since 1948? do not run away, answer

[@mcfcguvnors]

cos he said Hamas thing ? it WAS a Hamas thing ( once the Israelis had turned off the radar & cameras on the border fences no one ever talks about ) a trillion dollar defence system breached by hair dryers . Almost like they wanted it to happen to justify a revenge attack .

[@mrno.7366]

​@@pmoran7971Muhammad.. loosing a war that you started isn't a genocide!! God bless 🙏 Israel!

[@englishboy993]

​​@@mrno.7366It's like Sunak starting a war and we blame the citizens to be accomplice... You are deluded. Satanhyu and his German state have monsters who support them

[@pmoran7971]

@@mrno.7366 Learn your history my friend and learn about the importation of refugees into the southern levant, but of course you know, just in passing I am an Atheist ex Christian, you make too many assumptions and they are all completely wrong

[@paulsmith982]

Lineker has gone from a hero in the eyes of the country to one of the most despised people on television. Sad, really.

[@steve10]

Exactly , his goals in 86 and 90 world cups were exciting to watch , great goalscorer, but that guy seems to have been replaced by this prat , who can't seem to stop himself being controversial, while being paid our money

[@dupontgerard8217]

He s still a hero for a millions of british people There are only a minority a racists like you who do not care at all about life of palestinians children.

[@Jazzypooisawesome]

Not to me,so he don't like little kids been terrified and blown up,You do then ?

[@NiranAlHaneen]

He is representing the BBC's opinion

[@jimfish1595]

When it comes to the Gary spinnaker thing , this is the last straw for me.

[@user-yc5bc8zb1h]

Mr. L is the reason I never watch MOTD

[@sayitasitis100]

You’re not missed 😂😂😂

[@mrror8933]

English football has become a wokeshow.

[@kenneththompson8933]

And Ian Wright 🤡🤯

[@mrror8933]

@@kenneththompson8933 he's a thug.

[@colinfrancis7229]

He's cost the BBC my licence fee. And I imagine tens of thousands of others too.

[@johnmorrissey7873]

Suprised he hasn't come out with that holocaust thing perpetrated by the nazis

[@martinmutenyi215]

If you the British blame Hamas for the atrocities. What did the British soldiers do the people of Kenya during the Mau Mau independence struggle. What did the same British soldiers do in Northern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. They committed genocide. Why do you talk about the Holocaust and avoid the word Hitler.

[@johnmorrissey7873]

@@martinmutenyi215 obviously you are anti- semite and if you think HITLER murdered 6 million jews on his own you show your own stupidity and ignorance of history

[@steve10]

​@@martinmutenyi215we certainly did have an army to be proud of back then ,, maybe if we hadn't gone soft none of this would be happening.

[@johnmorrissey7873]

@@martinmutenyi215 if you the anti- semites blame israel for start ing this you are a useful fool for terrorists

[@laurafenton6776]

@@martinmutenyi215 very long time ago mate

[@dharmaboy34]

Lineker is a bad egg. Goodbye Gary. Anti-Semitic to the core....I see that as a Buddhist.

[@dungwit11]

You're conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, which makes you an anti Semite. Aren't you ashamed?

[@johnyare8576]

The BBC have never had impartiality guidelines.

[@terencegumbs2478]

Gary is a simpleton.

[@sayitasitis100]

I think you are, in fact I think you’re as thick as mince 😜🤪😂

[@dicklebilly3115]

Multi millionaire - yeh sounds like it 🫣

[@You.are.boring.me.now2024]

@@dicklebilly3115 Not from being bright ! For kicking a bag of air around , talking about kicking a bag of air around and selling crips!

[@Leigh-ry3yb]

​​@@You.are.boring.me.now2024He knows ethnic cleansing when he sees it which makes him considerably brighter than you 🤡

[@audreyblack8629]

Too much heading a ball! Footballers never tend to be very intelligent although there are a few exceptions!

[@davelufccalderdale3281]

I've lost all respect Lineker.

[@pac17284]

Because he has a heart

[@steve10]

Lineker needs to stay in his lane , he can comment about scoring goals , but he needs to reign it in about sensitive topics , he isn't being paid our money to then use propaganda on us. I'm sick of hearing his voice tbh.

[@Raven44453]

​@@pac17284Hi Muhammad, how's Ayesha?

[@Raven44453]

Hi Muhammad, how's Ayesha

[@williammohan9784]

@@pac17284 no because he is an antisemite

[@barneyreichman127]

As head of the BBC you'd think Gary would be better informed.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

You are clearly uninformed. He isn't head of the BBC.

[@barneyreichman127]

@@user-zc4yd9ss7h I think you're the one who is clearly uninformed, nobody else at the BBC can get away with what he does.

[@ylzaf77]

He is being informed of the truth, which is Israel is a lunatic state indeed, that is the truth

[@user-jg5vp8rh2h]

Shows his lack of knowledge regards 7 Oct why do BBC still employ him?

[@NPC--666]

Because they share his beliefs

[@wjkitching]

@@NPC--666 Spot on.

[@mcfcguvnors]

Cos it was a "Hamas Thing " unless you are now blaming Putin ?

[@You.are.boring.me.now2024]

@@mcfcguvnors So when people refer to Israel's war on HAMAS as "that Gaza thing" in such a flippant manner it will not be a problem for you? ****To the YT trust and safety team**** Before threatening account closure for the umpteenth time can you please check whether anything I have said is factually incorrect, not supported by Islamic sources or not a direct response to hateful and/or abusive comments by the person who reported me or the person who made the original comment , and it would be nice if you actually identified *exactly* what was supposedly hateful and why. Due to the preponderance of false flagging from a very specific group of people I will be wording my comments very carefully to avoid it, your “community guidelines” and willingness to appease are being weaponised to prevent any criticism of/response to the dishonest and often abhorrent views being expressed by some on your platform.

[@Hellndegenerates]

The 7th was a false flag 100% provable

[@bowler58.7]

He used to be one of Englands best goal scorers, now he is one of England BIGGEST PRATS.

[@donbecconsall6710]

Always has been

[@148ESTHER]

He is on Qatar's payroll.

[@vladd6787]

He couldn't wait to work for them over the world cup.

[@steve10]

The guy is a hypocrite , virtue signals every chance he has , yet takes the money of a country with those human rights laws. He is despicable

[@ronhudson3334]

He shouldn't be allowed to preach to millions of people about politics unless someone like Douglas Murray was his carer.

[@Justiceactivist]

Lol Douglas Murray 😂, the paid propagandist 😅

[@stephenclarke4891]

We are sick of Lineker get him off TV

[@rd123.]

Stop paying for the TV licence people! Sigh the statutory declaration saying you don’t watch Live TV. Then get Netflix

[@hudsonbear5038]

"Gary Lineker SLAMMED For Calling October 7 Attacks ‘The Hamas Thing" would he have made the same comment if was the other way round??? Hell no he would be screaming from the rafters...

[@soleknight3212]

He should be screaming from Rafah. He needs to get stuck in, as he seems so concerned about Gaza

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@soleknight3212 LOL like ALL of them that protest etc he is nothing more than a Coward......

[@wjkitching]

Lineker is a virtue signalling coward.

[@hudsonbear5038]

@@wjkitching They all are... when push comes too shove they will hide under their beds and behind sodas etc... none of them could fight their way out of a wet paper bag lol

[@wjkitching]

@@hudsonbear5038 The luxury of living in a relatively free country, someone else does the fighting and dying so he can talk bo**ocks and cry all the way to the bank.

[@ccarmencavallaro46]

This is ignorance at its best, he always runs to form. He’s just disgraceful. Get rid of him now.

[@paulofengland1331]

Satans little minion.

[@soleknight3212]

"You know, the thing" - President Joe Biden (Gary's learning)

[@lizlyon2902]

Does Gary cry for the hostages?

[@Db-lm1qn]

Yes I’m sure. There are thousands in Israeli prisons.

[@mrror8933]

​@@Db-lm1qnexcept they're not hostages, you fool.

[@moby1388]

Lineker has too much power over the BBC.

[@user-pq9hn5cm6h]

I stand with Israel 🇮🇱 all the way ❤❤❤❤❤

[@pmoran7971]

User-pq Tell me something good about Israel stealing other peoples land and letting immigrants move in to replace them

[@Hellndegenerates]

Israels attack on the 7th was a false flag

[@englishboy993]

Yeah evil stands evil we got it

[@mugiwaraluffy4888]

@@englishboy993 when your side have china, russia, hamas,islamic jihad,islamists iran and the neo nazi maybe you should take a good look at where you really standing

[@englishboy993]

@@mugiwaraluffy4888 This isn't about leaders, my heartless friend... It's about civilian life. They don't care about their political and extremist agendas but are brainwashed. It's like blaming Sunak and wishing our demise!

[@philcohen2941]

Stick to football!…you were nearly good at that!…

[@johnvella5834]

Lineker is stupid and ignorant. Stick to football you pillock.

[@2gointruth]

Kids are young goats. They are not human children. “Avoid a stupid man, you will hear not a word of sense from him.” - (Proverbs 14: 7) -

[@HelpUsPleaseHunanity]

Everything started in October 7. Uk needs to give more money to Israel and more aid. Uk needs to raise the taxes for the chosen people

[@yossiallen3316]

**** *** Lineker. We don't need you nor your input.

[@mattpistachio5497]

He should cry for the goals he missed as a footballer.

[@stevewaite6461]

Irrelevant ex footballer.

[@sayitasitis100]

That’s why they’re interviewing him and not you, irrelevant ?

[@Db-lm1qn]

Here you all are crying about his opinion

[@haydenharris3059]

Crys all the way to the bank Anyway the gaza thing will be over soon with the defeat of Hamas

[@englishboy993]

That's what somebody from the old German state would say. Shameless

[@mrror8933]

​@englishboy993 what????

[@julienash3049]

He’s a complete joke 🤬

[@williamwelch1950]

This man is unbelievable and a total embarrassment. How he survives in the media, I really do not know.

[@user-nb9px9cm4p]

Lineker is a narcissist!

[@user-pe5qy1zw6y]

Not to forget those who were wounded, terrorized and traumatized on October 7

[@lindawarner9627]

Well said sir, I never thought I would live to see the day, what is happening on our streets.

[@freddietheone8067]

What an appalling load of populist tosh. One of the most divisive smug outpourings I’ve heard in a while.

[@Danny-hp9fx]

The hamas thing…..and the outrageous treatment of people coming over on small boats getting put up in hotels and given money to spend…..

[@stephenclarke4891]

As Lineker not got the message yet not a very liked person

[@christinemoore8171]

He has not been looking far because there have been far more children killed in syria and yemen? There have been far worse atrocities in the world than what is happening in Gaza they are all equally traumatic. This is a case of severe ignorance or selective virtue signalling against israel only which would be anti semitic.

[@garytomas5411]

He was crap at football and even worse pundit

[@sugarynugs]

lineker is definately high off of his own farts

[@tracywilde6868]

October 7th should have been the worse thing he ever saw

[@victrix7334]

Only thing that ponce should bring to a conversation is silence

[@ritag93]

Lineker needs to be arrested , investigated and kicked out

[@jakoflynn2560]

A footballer gets into politics omg 😨

[@sayitasitis100]

Yes look what happened when politicians get into politics, get yerself off to the food bank

[@jakoflynn2560]

@@sayitasitis100 …Linaker is a political goalhanger he’s there to pick up every victim tear for the woke

[@sayitasitis100]

@@jakoflynn2560 nearly 15,000 children murdered and you are so thick you think that’s woke ? give your head a shake fella but try to avoid your two brain cells colliding

[@user-yc5bc8zb1h]

Also I never buy Walkers crisps 😊

[@zhafi15o]

Did he said the same for babies in Kibutzes were beheaded and for Bivas family babies still in Gaza tunnels 😢 😢

[@sayitasitis100]

What those 40 beheaded babies that were never beheaded, stop being a hampton

[@SamWashkansky]

Let's be honest, if it wasn't for soccer, he'd be a nobody. And his opinion and knowledge would be insignificant.

[@philipwelsh1862]

Crying into his over a million quid pay packet from the tax payers via the DREDED BBC he’s a thick x footballer who has lost his way to goal

[@winstonsmith9424]

He hasn't been looking that hard then. I can forgive him the "Hamas thing" but wish he'd summarised his understanding of other topics he's commented on so succintly eg "that George Floyd / BLM thing" "that Rainbow thing" "that Jewish thing" etc

[@sayitasitis100]

He’s like the vast majority of decent human beings around the globe, the images of dead mutilated children, limbless children, starving children, children screaming in agony, children hugging the bodies of their dead parents, children dying from malnutrition upsets him, that’s why he cries for their suffering, he’s normal unlike most of the halfwits who post on here condemning him, in case GB “news” hasn’t noticed it there’s demonstrations all over the world where people in their tens of millions protest exactly the inhumanity Linacre exposes, shut up you are insignificant !!

[@colinmaclean5276]

he lives in a private gated house he is truly a man of the people and people who live in the real world should listen to his god like wisdom

[@etiennebaree6176]

Lineker......people like him think they are big. but guest what , everybody has limited time on earth and are so quickly vergotten.........

[@phillipwalker6517]

Gary does not think before he talks through his arse.

[@user-fm7qh4sn2f]

His match of day team should refuse too work with him..he's a disgrace...should be ashamed of himself...all you spurs fans should be ashamed of him...he played for spurs now says this..they have a huge Jewish following..every ground the lineker turns up at should boo him and chant at him make him feel uncomfortable

[@doomybear7389]

Once an A H always an A H

[@user-vt5yd4od8m]

Narcissistic nonentity

[@humbawena]

Of course he is anti Semitic, nobody is that ignorant of Jewish history and all the dead israeli civilians even before Oct 7 , this was a massacre in pogrom terms , he can't not know about programs 6:21

[@petenorton883]

this bloke says he cries for kids in Gaza? pull the other one its got bells on..

[@MishMichaeli]

God bless you good people, Istand with Israel, I actually believe the people of Israel can teach the western nations about a thing or two, let alone when it comes to the threat of radical Islam. Will Europe rise too late, or is there a hope?

[@freddiemac1438]

Lineker even thought funny his family ancestors in Who Do You Think you Are - many of whose children in the 19th C died due to modern preventable diseases / still recall his making light of it on the programme. What a revolting piece of work he is.

[@stephenclarke4891]

Why does he get paid so much any one can do his job

[@RichieMacMr]

very articulate, concise and excellent guest

[@MrCaterhamr500]

Nothing must be important in the UK anymore, only foreign affairs!?

[@kopynd1]

the fa cup is fashioned from jug lugs, lugs

[@brianhall869]

Klaus Shuabs fourth Reicht is here . First the Jews!

[@geoffreydutton2234]

Stick to football

[@elizabethprocter1031]

and crisps 🙂

[@annabelrobin294]

Linekar❤Hamas

[@williamsafari6437]

i noticed the tool lineker got an award from ASIAN TV in 2015 and worked for al jazeera tv so his affection for others is not new .the box ticking tool took in a migrant for 2 weeks .

[@tonyandjanetparker3204]

This one of the reasons we cancelled our tv licence.

[@russellwilliams1163]

I don’t remember Lineker crying after the London bombings or the Manchester bombings or the October 7th attacks.

[@socratesarvanitakis8547]

Cry, baby cry, make your bosses sigh. (sorry for the misquote ,Beatles) The block is inarticulate, I don’t think he would get a job as a pizza delivery boy, never mind being a TV persona. Persona non grata more likely. What about poor us? We have that BBC thing… who will save us from it?

[@zhafi15o]

He gett paid to tell this

[@johnleckieWATP]

"anything l have seen worse in my life time" have they all forget about the up to 1 million Iraqis killed during the Iraq war?

[@WOLFIE-96B-UK]

Was 1939-45 the Adolf thing Gary?

[@user-eb9yi3nf1f]

BBC should have sacked Lineker last year after his comments about Suella Braverman.Shame on the 5 Live presenters who went on strike in support of 'Saint Gary'

[@drwhatson]

They should FORCE Linekar to watch the actual Hamas bodycam footage from Oct.7th like Alex in 'A Clockwork Orange'

[@Wearmouth]

Why am I paying this man's exuberant wages, why.......

[@colinfrancis7229]

I personally thought watching Hillsborough unfurl was worse than Israel's retaliation on Hamas. And Heysel. And Bradford.

[@richardcummins5465]

Lineker cancels another 5000 licenses. Big mouth!

[@dianeirvine7624]

His dad and grandad were corbyn and steptoe , what can you expect

[@alanjones1747]

Did he cry on Oct 7

[@dungwit11]

Gary speaking truth in this post truth era. Brave, principled and intelligent, unlike his detracting gammon types.

[@valerykreidenko5562]

Even at this age he kicks the ball ⚽️ much better than thinks.

[@niv2516]

Let see him walking the streets of London alone...

[@gwenpaxton1802]

Why does the BBC employ such a thing as Linekar he is so insensative and doesn't care what he says. We switch off when he is on.

[@stephennutkin2477]

Does Gary call the half a million dead in Syria a Syrian thing , or the million Muslims imprisoned in China a Chinese thing ?. I take it whilst he pocked his big BBC pay cheque whilst sitting in a studio in Qatar a country which he freely commented on as a Qatar thing.

[@rogerwilson6367]

Planet brain Lineker.

[@stevestirrup3444]

He is Everton.........Say no more.

[@elizabethprocter1031]

Lineker is ignorance personified. Get rid.

[@brendamhewitt3405]

He is disgusting. Why is he still here when he could be such an asset to Hamas in Gaza where there are a lot of ‘things’ going on .

[@Canio567]

He has to make sure everyone knows that he’s crying.