Football
Gary Lineker leaves BBC staff ‘disgusted’ and ‘deeply upset’ as sack threat grows
BBC staff are reportedly “disgusted” that Gary Lineker has not been sacked for his recent social media actions. The outgoing Match of the Day host re-posted a cartoon image of a rat accompanied by a video that showed Canadian-Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu attacking Israel’s war in Gaza.
Campaign Against Anti-Semitism led backlash against the former England footballer, who has removed the post from his story, and his alleged endorsement of the emoji, as rats were regularly used as tropes by Nazi Germany to depict Jewish people. The Telegraph claim that a group of BBC figures say the corporation’s refusal to sack Lineker is “deeply upsetting to its Jewish staff”.
