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Gary Lineker Out at the BBC

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Gary Lineker, a sports reporter and the highest-paid on-air announcer at the BBC, is one of the organization’s staff — there are so many at the broadcaster who share his views — who has long displayed his anti-Israel animus, and now his sharing of an antisemitic post has led to his forced resignation at the BBC. More on the reasons for his departure can be found here: “Gary Lineker to leave BBC after sharing antisemitic content to social media – report,” Jerusalem Post, May 

BBC’s Gary Lineker is reported to be leaving the BBC and to announce his resignation on Monday after receiving backlash for sharing antisemitic content, The Guardian reported.

Last week, Lineker received backlash after he reposted a pro-Palestinian video on social media that criticized Zionism and included a rat emoji, and later apologized for the post.

Rats have historically antisemitic connotations that were popularized in Germany under the Nazi regime.

The English sports broadcaster claimed in a public statement that he would “never knowingly share anything antisemitic” and that he had deleted the post “as soon as I became aware of the issue.”

This resignation comes after numerous campaigns and complaints to the BBC from the Jewish community.

Not only Jews, but many other people offended by this kind of antisemitism no doubt complained.

Here is one representative comment about Lineker on X:

…The post comes shortly after Lineker, who is also the former England soccer captain, defended his right to express his opinions on issues such as Gaza in an interview with the BBC’s Amol Rajan.

During the interview, Lineker said: “I know where I stand on this. I’m sorry. It’s more important than the BBC. What’s going on there is the mass murder of thousands of children [and] is probably something that we should have a little opinion on.”

There is no “mass murder” of children in Gaza. The IDF makes tremendous efforts to minimize civilian casualties, as Hamas makes similar efforts to increase their number, by hiding its men and weapons in civilian buildings, including but not limited to schools, mosques, hospitals, and apartment buildings. The IDF has dropped millions of leaflets, sent millions of text messages, and made millions of robocalls, all in order to war civilians away from sites and buildings about to be targeted. The result is that of the 53,000 dead in Gaza to date, 22,000 were Hamas members. In Gaza, prior to the war, 800 people died each month from diseases and accidents. There is no reason to assume that number has changed, which means that in the 20 months of war, 16,000 people died of non-combat-related causes. So the total number of civilians in Gaza who died as a result of the war can be calculated as follows: 53,000-22,000 is 31,000, from which we must further deduct 16,000 deaths unrelated to combat, leaving a total of 15,000. 40% of the population of Gaza consist of people under the age of 15. Of the 15,000 civilian deaths in Gaza attributable to the war, then, 6,000 are children. Out of a population of just under a million children, this is far less than 1%. Is that “mass murder”? Does Gary Lineker not understand what the IDF has done to minimize those civilian deaths, with its leaflets, text messaging, and robocalls? Is he aware that British Colonel Richard Kemp, who served in a half-dozen wars and commanded British troops in Afghanistan, has called the IDF “the most moral army in the world” because of its effort to warn civilians? Does he know that Professor John Spencer of West Point concluded from his study of the Gaza war that Israel has “implemented more precautions to prevent civilian harm than any military in history—above and beyond what international law requires”?

It tells us a lot about the BBC personnel that people were walking out from BBC Sport to protest his temporary suspension for making the preposterous and outrageous charge that the British government — then in the hands of the Conservative Party — was acting like the Nazis in the 1930s. These people, too, are part of the problem, and evidence of why the BBC needs to clean house, not just by letting go of Gary Lineker, but by firing all those who support him for his anti-Israel and, let’s face it, antisemitic views.

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  1. Here’s what puzzles me about characters like Lineker. He was the highest-paid presenter at the BBC, earning £1.35 million per year. His salary remained at this level for several years, making him the corporation’s top earner. However, when he was forced to step down from his high-paying job, he also forfeited an additional £800,000 contract extension for FA Cup and World Cup coverage.

    You have to hate someone or something to an insane degree to throw away millions in earnings. What is wrong with these guys? Hating Jews is bad enough, but to burn millions in cash on the alter of such a bizarre hatred is beyond understanding.

  2. In general i’m not OK with people getting fired for what they say.. That’s a bridge to far for me.. Let everyone speak and when they’re wrong challenge them and show why they’re wrong.. Having said that a person in his position has to be better and he definitely deserves what he got..

    • Lineker “resigned”, likely having two choices within an offer he couldn’t refuse.

      The video he posted equated Israelis to rats via a picture of a rat, which was also a Nazi symbolic propaganda image for Jews. Lineker said he never saw it.

      I think this is a problem within the media echo chamber – individually a media person begins thinking something must be true and doesn’t dig deeper because everyone he/she knows in media is saying it.

    • He wasn’t fired. In general I’m ok with anyone getting fired for posting rat emojis about millions of dead.
      Screw him. he’s been a vile hate stirrer for a long time. There’s one like that in Australia too.

      But he got to leave on his own terms, as all these vile people do.

    • Of course not. In Britain you get jailed for telling the truth about moslems and the government.

      • Indeed. And getting worse. No reduction for Lucy Connelly today. Whiie serious harm doers walk free.

        • Absolutely disgusting.
          The ruling filth are going to use her to strike fear into everyone else.
          Shame for them it’s not going to work.

      • Just like Tommy Robinson. The good news he will be released next week, he will be free at last !! Hallelujah, he is FREE. I hope he joins up with the Reform Party.
        If he did Nigel Farage would win the next election & throw out the traitorous imposter Stalin Starmer.

        • farage hates Tommy Robinson. He thinks Tommy is too low class, and he hates that Tommy is more popular than he is.
          If Tommy formed a political party, I’d vote for him without hesitation. He’s the only one who’s telling the truth and I believe he would sincerely attempt to do what needs to be done.
          I will NEVER vote farage, he’s a liar and a sell out.

  4. Lineker’s thoughts about Israel might seem understandable if he actually believed the media’s parroting of Hamas propaganda. Posting the rat video was beyond that.

    Are there any real war reporters who know the language and report from actual neutral observation within the conflict? It seems the media have become “opinion collectors”, seeking out the biases they wish to present and staying safely out of war zones.

    Trump is suing CBS (60 Minutes) for fabricating the Harris interview to interfere in the election which has led to the resignation of the producer, thinning of staff, and a possible 9+ digit settlement. This CBS war with Trump likely began with the Lesley Stahl interview when she tried to make him look paranoid when he said the spooks were spying on his campaign. This of course, after intense lying by the spooks, turned out to be true – and for which Stahl and 60 Minutes never apologized.

    Speaking of spooks, Comey said he didn’t know the meaning of 8647, particularly 86. This means 8ft long and 6ft deep, a grave, which is common military slang. But Comey has said he doesn’t remember things 245 times in the past so maybe we should believe Biden has the superior mental capacity?

    It seems that Starmer, not just the BBC is having a “come to Jesus” experience with Starmer declaring that uncontrolled [Muslim] immigration is damaging the UK. This could be related to an election….

  5. He used to be a reasonable ⚽ player back in the 80s. What made “Palestine” his hobbyhorse? What did/does it have to do w/ England’s Soccer?

    • What does it have to do with anything? These people grab anything to hate on Jews and big note themselves.

  6. One thing that many people have never learned: You are free to think/believe anything you wish or have been led to accept as true. But, you don’t have to express every thought that comes to mind.

  7. All that money for talking about boring football! 🙄Lineker. How can you hate Jews when your one !? . Mental.🤡💯

    • Mary, Lineker is not himself Jewish–and Jews are not prevented from talking about sports, in any case, even if you personally find this boring. It is his ugly antisemitic comments that are the problem.

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