Fox Sports activities sparked controversy on-line over a social media graphic asserting an Israel defeat within the World Baseball Traditional.
On X, the community wrote on Monday: “Israel has been eradicated from WBC title rivalry after their loss to the Dominican Republic.”
The accompanying picture featured the Israeli flag beneath the phrases: “ISRAEL ELIMINATED.”
Fox Sports activities used precisely the identical format for different nations whose groups have been knocked out of the competitors.
However the Israel graphic went viral and has now garnered greater than 10 million views on the Elon Musk-owned platform.
Some commenters, reminiscent of The New York Occasions’ Glenn Thrush, measuredly steered it was “maybe not an optimum graphic.”
Others pounced on the put up to advertise anti-Israel and anti-Semitic messaging and declare they thought, on first look, that Iran, which is at the moment the topic of U.S.-Israeli strikes, had wiped Israel out.