TV’s best-paid pundit Gary Lineker is right again – and, again, it’s not sport he’s been discussing.

Last time, Mr Lineker came under fire for saying Suella Braverman’s “immeasurably cruel” immigration policy was “directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 1930s”.

He was right then, and now he’s taken aim at Braverman again. She reckons people calling for peace between Israel and Gaza are trying to hold a “hate march” in London, saying there’s a risk of “serious public disorder”, “violence”, “damage” and “offence”.

That’s highly contradictory; why would people who want peace cause such behaviour?

Is she perhaps worried that those who support her own point of view will get involved and they will cause the harm? If so, she should at least do it honestly.

Mr Lineker also picked her up on her language:

Amazingly, this seems to have triggered historian Simon Schama, who – shockingly – chose to challenge Mr Lineker with a false argument:

Again, Mr Lineker is right. You don’t get peace with anybody if you insult them and murder their friends; that will just provoke them, and encourage everybody who knows them to join their cause (as we’ve seen happen many times in the past). Instead, you ask for a halt to hostilities so you can get everybody around the negotiating table.

And the desire for that to happen doesn’t make an event calling for it into an act of hate!

Still, the Israel apologists are now several layers deep, so we see this:

https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1720554760007274718

Yes, indeed. A footballer lectured one of Britain’s foremost Jewish historians – and shamed him.

Still, that didn’t stop another useful idiot, Douglas Murray, from insulting Mr Lineker with a non-sequitur about his knowledge of Hamas – or lack of it. The point is easy to disprove: you don’t need knowledge of Hamas to discuss the behaviour of peace marchers, that has been on display for weeks, by now.

And then there is Dr Philip Proudfoot’s analysis, which blows Murray’s premise to dust:

So the (real) haters tried a different tack, going back to the old tactic of demanding that nobody’s opinion can be allowed to count unless they’ve already condemned the Hamas “atrocities” of October 7. Whether any atrocities took place at all is now debatable, but thank goodness, we have Dave Lawrence, below:

It is a really good question. “Never Again” means “Never Again” – for anybody.

It is an affront to history for the ethnic group most commonly identified as a victim of genocide to be committing it against another.

But then, what is a “hate march” anyway?

As far as Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley is concerned, it’s an academic argument as Suella Braverman made up the phrase:

So, once again, Gary Lineker is right. I could define “hate march” right now as the condition of despising the third month of the year – with as much validity as anything the crazed Braverman might suggest.

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