Football
Gary Lineker faces sack calls after BBC presenter makes ‘Nazi propaganda’ post
Campaign Against Antisemitism have piled on pressure for the BBC to sack Gary Lineker after the outgoing Match of the Day host shared a pro-Palestine video on social media featuring a rat emoji. Lineker re-posted, and appears to have deleted, a cartoon image of a rat accompanied by a video that showed Canadian-Palestinian lawyer Diana Buddu attacking Israel’s war in Gaza.
Campaigners were outraged at Lineker’s apparent endorsement of the emoji, as rats were regularly used as tropes by Nazi Germany to depict Jewish people. He shared a post by the Palestine Lobby group after previously defending his right to express his opinions on issues such as Gaza.
