http://twitter.com/#!/Mo_Farah/status/496739448366071808

Mo Farah, the phenomenal distance runner from Great Britain, stepped into the Israel-Palestine conflict by tweeting the #FreePalestine hashtag earlier today.

A photo he posted to Instagram — one of the best thing he has ever seen, he claims — shows Portuguese soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo posing with other Palestintian sympathizers.

It’s not the first time he has expressed sympathy for Palestinians:

http://twitter.com/#!/Mo_Farah/status/270711853611630593

Last month, he retweeted these grim photos of dead kids purportedly from Gaza:

It turns out, however, that some of the children were Syrian, not Palestinian.

http://twitter.com/#!/honigstein/status/487422399613521921

A search of Farah’s Twitter feed for “Syria” comes up empty. Some dead kids matter more than others, apparently.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/2014/08/05/track-star-mo-farah-latest-celeb-to-tweet-freepalestine/