So, I got the nation's best-loved Christmas-ing sports official, Gary Linnaker, in trouble,

not potentially, I should add, with our lovely mild-mannered friends in the British media.

I think this whole episode really is revealing of a lot of things.

Now, this week, I published an article with Rassie Gal, who was an Israeli-American associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide studies.

That's quite an important detail, I think, in this whole story.

Nobody could reasonably conclude that Rassie Gal doesn't know what he is talking about.

Now, I did a 40-minute interview with him, very thorough, and he argues in that interview that the Israeli onslaught against Gaza is a textbook case of genocide.

His argument is scholarly, it's grounded in huge amounts of research, legal knowledge, historical knowledge, and, of course, knowledge of what's currently happening at the moment.

Now, whether or not you agree or disagree with him, I'll come on to that.

Everybody should surely, I think, agree, we have kind of consensus that his argument deserves respectful engagement.

And the least you can do, if you've got a dissenting view, is to engage with the substance.

Now, I posted a 13-minute clip of this interview on Twitter, which has gone hugely viral.

Millions of people have seen it on that medium alone.

Now, Gary Linnaker helped in that process, because he quite rightly quoted it with worth 13 minutes of anyone's time.

And then, all hell broke loose.

Let's hear a clip from the supposedly offensive interview, which is actually, as I've said,

a scholarly grounded interview with Rassie Gal.

And if you haven't watched the whole interview, please do watch it for yourself.

Now, the case of Israel's attack on Gaza is actually very unique.

It's actually exceptional, I think, in a number of ways, but it's unique in the sense of discussing it as what I think it is that is genocide,

because the intent is so clearly articulated, right?

And it's articulated.

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