Former Chelsea boss Avram Grant has criticised Gary Lineker on social media.
Lineker is currently in the spotlight after sharing a post from a Pro-Palestinian account on Monday that called for governing bodies to ban Israel from international football.
The BBC presenter, who is their highest-paid presenter, later removed the post because of an apparent misunderstanding.
Yet Israeli-born Grant, who has managed Chelsea, Portsmouth and West Ham, has now let rip at the 63-year-old and accused him of being ‘completely silent’ following the Hamas attacks on October 7.
He took to Instagram to say: “Hi @garylineker, so you have done it again.
“You are retweeting the chairman of the Palestine FA.
“The same man who publicly supported the October 7 massacre and said it was a great day that should happen again and again.
“I pray for peace, but these people don’t want peace.
‘They killed babies. They raped women. They burnt people alive. They filmed it all.
“A massacre which you were completely silent about.”
Hamas killed 250 people when they attacked Israel on October 7.
Israel have since responded with constant bombardment of the Gaza region.
Grant previously said in November that he had lost all respect for Lineker as a result of his silence.
The BBC presenter didn’t tweet about the initial attacks and instead celebrated Tottenham being top of the league.
Grant said: “I follow Gary, he comments about everything, he even said that the current policy of the UK Government reminded him of the policy of the German government in the 1930s.
“I know about this policy, my father suffered for this policy, my grandfather, my grandmother was murdered because of the policy of the Germans.
“I have a message to Gary Lineker who I respected a lot as a football player, but to be honest, that respect is gone.
“The only thing that is close to his is what happened on October 7.
“What happened, I cannot even describe. There was no reason, there was a peaceful environment in the Middle East.
“But they murdered and butchered children, they beheaded people, raped women and burned them alive, cut open women and took (unborn) children out of their stomachs and killed them. They took hostages.
“I’ve never heard of such things in my life, and what did you do? Silence. Nothing.
“I think you even said that Tottenham is first place in the league. That’s what was important for you.
“So you have a double standard.”
Grant also condemned Lineker after the BBC presenter claimed a pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day would be a ‘hate march’.
“You said it’s not a march of hate,” he stated.
“DDo you know the headline of this march is ‘from the river to the sea’?
“It means 10 million Israelis, to get rid of them, to put them on the sea. What is it if it’s not hate?
“I know that it’s not all of them, I know that the majority of them do not agree with this, so they need to get rid of this headline. This is the policy of Hamas, not the Palestinians.
“The policy of Hamas is to kill, destroy and not build anything. The policy of Israel is security. The policy of the good Palestinians that I know is to have quality of life and they deserve it.
“The policy of Hamas is to destroy even them, you don’t need to believe me, the head of Hamas said ‘it will not be the 7th of October, we will repeat it again and again’.”