A great celebration in various social media outlets witnessed an English fan who shouted "Freedom for Palestine" during an interview he had with an Israeli channel in Doha - yesterday, Sunday - after the end of the England match with Senegal, which ended with the victory of the English and their qualification for the next round.
The clip spread across social media platforms like wildfire, achieving hundreds of thousands of views.
And in the video, the cheerleader called "Harry Hatton" appears among a group of other fans, who were talking to the reporter of the Hebrew "Kan" channel, and suddenly Hatton asked the reporter to say something else, and that was "freedom for Palestine", before Hatton and his friends left.
England football fan chants "FREE PALESTINE" in Israel TV interview following win over Senegal.
#Israel #Qatar #ENGvsSEN pic.twitter.com/zI65XE7myO
- Robert Carter (@Bob_cart124) December 4, 2022
Hatton expressed his happiness at the responses that met his statement to the Hebrew channel, and the English fan said on his Twitter account: “Thank you all, I am not perfect, I have made mistakes in my life, I hope we can all move forward together, and I am glad that I played my little role.” shedding light on this issue.
Thanks everyone!
I am not perfect.
I have made mistakes.
Hopefully we can all move forward together and I am glad I got to do my small part in highlighting this issue!
- hatton (@harryhatt0n) December 5, 2022
A large number of activists and bloggers on communication platforms praised what the English fan did.
Activist Jamal Dajani commented, "The Israeli diplomacy disseminated by the media could not escape from saying freedom to Palestine."
The English are winning on and off the field today.
"more importantly" melted my heart ♥️ https://t.co/5wk06R7ebZ
- Manar 𓂀 (@Manora23) December 4, 2022
Blogger Manar said - through her Twitter account -: "The English team won today on and off the field, and the important thing is that they managed to melt my heart for them."
A few days ago, a Japanese fan refused to give an interview to the Israeli newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, in continuation of the series of widespread popular rejection of the presence of the Israeli press in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Japan fan at the World Cup: “Which channel is this?”
Isr@eli reporter: “Israel channel”
Fan:🚶🏻♀️👋
Reporter: “You don't like us?”
pic.twitter.com/dAz26gZDAH
- Jennine (@jennineak) November 26, 2022
The Israeli journalist for the newspaper, Raz Shashnik, wanted to interview one of the fans of the Japanese national team - after its victory over its German counterpart - and as soon as he approached the cheerleader, she asked him, "What is this channel?"
He answered her, “An Israeli channel,” and she indicated to him with her hand that she did not want to conduct the interview, then she left, before he told her, “Do we not like you?”