Gary Lineker is a former soccer star who is now a sports broadcaster for the BBC. Judging by his postings on social media, outside of sports, he has an obsessive interest in Israel and what, according to him, are the Jewish state’s many crimes. He’s a great supporter of BDS. He parrots the chant “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which, properly understood, calls for the obliteration of the Jewish state and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab one. Now the columnist Brendan O’Neill has taken Lineker to task for his anti-Israel animus. More on O’Neill’s onslaught on Lineker can be found here: “Gary Lineker and the bigotry of the virtue-signallers,” by Brendan O’Neill, Spiked, January 15, 2024:
Yesterday, Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel was suspended by his club in Turkey and then arrested by Turkish cops. His crime? During a game on Saturday he held up his clenched fist, wrapped in a bandage, where he’d written the words: ‘100 days. 7/10.’ He was commemorating the Hamas pogrom of 7 October. He was using his football stardom to remind people of the Israeli hostages still in captivity. He was saying, in essence, Jewish lives matter. For this, his club, Antalyaspor, dumped him, and the police nabbed him. He is being investigated, said Turkey’s justice minister, for making an ‘ugly gesture’ that could incite ‘people to hatred and hostility’.
What have Britain’s showily virtuous footballers had to say about this grim act of Israelophobia? Our painfully right-on footballing clique who’ve been taking the knee and crying ‘Black Lives Matter!’ for the past three years – surely they have a view on this tyrannical assault on a footballer whose only offence was to show concern for the Jews still being held by the fascists of Hamas? Those managers and players who ostentatiously genuflected for George Floyd must be piping up for their colleague who merely spoke up for the vastly higher numbers of Israelis who were murdered and kidnapped by racists – right?
Nope. Not a word. Crickets. In fact, it’s worse than that. Gary Lineker, the king of preening football stars, the maestro of dispensing milquetoast views to the tragic middle classes of Twitter, did say something about Israeli football at the weekend. He retweeted the view that Israel should be banned from international games. He shared a tweet saying FIFA should ‘suspend Israel’s membership’ and ‘ban it from international tournaments’ until it ‘ends its grave violations of international law’. There you have it: as Turkey was booting out an Israeli footballer, Britain’s best-known virtue-signalling prick seemed to suggest that Israel as a whole should be booted out of football.
Behold the Turkey-Lineker alliance. The world’s weirdest pincer movement. On one side, the hotheads of an Islamist-ruled nation who cannot abide the sight of an Israeli sportsman criticising Hamas. And on the other, a pompous sports broadcaster wondering out loud if Israel should be shown the red card [meaning: “You’re out.”] by the footballing establishment. As a footballer faces interrogation and damnation for showing solidarity with Israel, Britain’s self-styled guardian of sporting virtue ignites a furious online discussion about ridding football of Israel’s wicked presence. It is unforgivable.
Lineker’s retweet has caused a storm. He shared a comment from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, which cited the Palestinian Football Association’s view that FIFA should take ‘an urgent stance towards Israel’s grave violations of human rights’. So the Beeb’s top sports commentator is now openly promoting BDS bigotry. BDS, which stands for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, is a nasty campaign beloved of the lazy bourgeoisie that singles out the world’s only Jewish state for the most severe forms of cultural and economic sanction. For a figurehead of the supposedly impartial BBC to push such a partisan and, in my view, prejudiced ideology is iffy in the extreme….
For Gary Lineker, Iran poses no problems. He is happy to watch, and even acting as a BBC commentator on, Iranian soccer teams. He appears to be unaffected by the Tehran regime that has executed thousands of political prisoners, has murdered hundreds of girls who failed to wear, or wore incorrectly, their hijabs, has stoned adulterers to death, and hangs homosexuals from cranes.
I would wager that many Brits with dual Israeli citizenship, or just British Jews who have an affinity with Israel, now feel even more isolated from the public broadcaster following Lineker’s promotion of BDS bigotry. Seriously, Gary – do you have no shame?
No, Gary Lineker has no shame because he deeply believes in the wickedness of the Jewish state. Gary Lineker, one of the most important broadcasters at the BBC, is clearly obsessed with the evil of Israel — an obsession such as his rises to the level of antisemitism. In the more than 100 days since the attacks of October 7, he has refused to condemn Hamas for its rapes, tortures, and murders. Instead, he promotes the cutting off of all economic and cultural ties to the Israeli state and Israeli individuals, from violinists to teenage cricket stars; he favors boycotting Israeli film festivals, and boycotting stores that continue to carry Israeli goods. He has not bothered, however, to comment on the fact that Israeli-manufactured components are in many high-tech products, including the computers used at by BBC by the likes of Gary Lineker; his virtue-signaling, you see, has its limits, if it would in any way inconvenience him.
From The Other Side of Town says
Ban G. Lineker from the human species; he is already halfway there anyway.
Hudders. says
Agreed. Lineker regularly uses his privilaged position at the BBC to push his agenda.
He is a scum bag terrorist loving traitor to his country.
The same country he once proudly represented.
He needs banning.
dani says
gary looks like the type of useful idiot bloodthirsty gazan knuckle draggers love to hurl off rooftops.
abu taleb says
I start to think that many useful idiots like Lineker are not realy idiots, they are simply greedy evil people who only lok for money, I don’t believe LIneker and other BBC people are not aware of what is going on in Israel-Palestine conflict, with the internet, we can learn a lot of things about such conflict. There are certainly a lot of ignorant people who entittled to be named as useful idiots like students, but not the BBC people or the left politicians.
James Lincoln says
“The BBC’s Gary Lineker Has No Shame”
And neither does the BBC for hiring him.
Crown says
More Euro-commie trash.
Well, you just keep importing people from that religion of peace and all-round wonderfulness, ok?
Karma coming round real soon, and it is gonna be a bee-yotch! Schadenfreude coming round the bend!
Interesting little bit in Wikipedia about this turd:
“Gary Winston Lineker was born on 30 November 1960 in Leicester, the son of Margaret P. (Abbs) and Barry Lineker.[6] He was given his middle name in honour of Winston Churchill, with whom he shares a birthday.”
Wow – the irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife. This disgusting POS who is doing his part to destroy Britain, shares a name with arguably the greatest British individual of all, my idol Winston Churchill.
O tempora, o mores!
John Smith says
Gary LIneker,
I hope you get to read this. I honestly believe that you are a good person in your heart, but your definitely not a good person in your brain. There is absolutely nothing positive going on in your head, it seems to me that your brain is located in your feet. As us Brits would say, “you are as thick as shit.” You are a disgrace Gary Lineker. Yet in your amoeba structured mindset you believe yourself to be a paragon of virtue. Let me try to educate you Mr Lineker. You and people like are amongst the most dangerous people on the planet. You are siding with evil but your to blind to see it.
James Lincoln says
John Smith says,
“Gary LIneker,
I hope you get to read this. I honestly believe that you are a good person in your heart…”
On what basis do you make this claim?
John Smith says
James I honestly believe that most on the left are good people in their hearts. They want to help migrants, they want to help people that they believe aren’t as fortunate as themselves. I hate to admit this, but I can relate to them. When I was in my teens and early twenties I also use to think the same way as them. Yes I was a leftard. Over the years my mind developed and I see things in a much clearer way now.
The trouble is with these do-gooders like Gary Lineker their minds have never properly developed, and I’m convinced about that. They just don’t see the harm or the dire consequences that uncontrolled migration is going to cause. Especially from islamic countries. They just don’t see it, they just don’t get it, because they lack basic intelligence.
John Smith says
Sorry James I didn’t take into account what this article was all about. I had a few beers last night and maybe I didn’t even read it properly. I didn’t realise it was about Linekers hatred towards the Jews. Otherwise I would of replied to you differently.
I always associated Lineker with wanting to help migrants etc, my apologise.
James Lincoln says
Thank you for your responses, John Smith.
Fully understand.
Nick says
Gary Lineker is a dickhead.
Ade Fegan says
Totally .. No need for fancy words .. Let’s just make the point
Gurek says
Commemorating the massacres against Jews and Israelis is a crime in Turkey? Those who scream “apartheid” should look at how Turkey and other islamic supremacist countries treat the native non-Muslim populations.
Rob Porter says
People need to get it into their head that there is no more vicious apartheid system in the world than Islam. Compared to Islam apartheid was chicken feed. Everyone other than Muslims are discriminated against. Non-Muslims are regarded and treated as ‘dhimmis’, third-class citizens. females are regarded as half the value of even the most inbred Muslim male. If you leave Islam you’re supposed to be killed. In fact for a few reasons you are to be killed. The late Christopher Hitchens got it right on tv in the U.S. Of Islam and its cock and bull story of how the illiterate Mohammad recorded the Qur’an, he said: “It’s all bullshit”.
Siddi Nasrani says
To me it also completely ” Satanic”
Michael Paul Skok says
I think Gary Lineker is a coward. He wets his finger and sticks it up in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. The Bible condemns such people. In Revelation 21:8: “But the FEARFUL, and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the like which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death.”
Tony Rice says
The last I heard he is getting £1.4 MILLION a year from B B C ( licence payers in reality ) and what for. He seems to do NOTHING to earn it. Complete and utter waste of money. Get rid of, asap?
Scotsman48 says
This is the same moron that said Fish and Chips is not really a British meal.
carpediadem says
He’s right for once:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-surprising-jewish-history-behind-fish-n-chips/