Nobody for even one second believes Gary Lineker has even a particle of antisemitism in him, or indeed any form of hatred. If there is a closer approximation to “the opposite of hateful” in public life, it’s a struggle to think of who else.
He shared a post, as a story on Instagram, which featured the brilliant Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu discussing the nature of Zionism. The BBC itself should have given a proper platform for Palestinians to discuss an ideology whose consequences has repeatedly driven them from their land, subjected them to mass murder, injury, torture, incarceration, poverty, apartheid, colonisation, and now genocide. It has failed to do so – by wanting to share Buttu’s words, Gary Lineker is doing a job the BBC should have done. The video included an emoji of a rat. There’s no question this has antisemitic connotations when applied to Jewish people, with the Nazis referring to Jews as vermin. Lineker has already apologised for not noticing this emoji, and making it clear he’d never have shared it if he had, and that he deleted it immediately when it was brought to his attention.
Today, a militantly pro-Israel organisation calling itself the ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ which has relentlessly targeted opponents of Israel’s genocide, has issued a statement taking credit for Lineker being driven out. Their press release is headlined “Gary Lineker quits BBC, following CAA action”, stating “Gary Lineker is reportedly departing from the BBC following complaints to the broadcaster from Campaign Against Antisemitism.”
Just who are these doughty campaigners against racism? Last January, they published a tweet which read: “Thinking of visiting Sadiq Kan’s London? This is what you can expect to see.” The first frame of the attached video is an Islamist flag. This wasn’t so much of a dog whistle as a foghorn. These are the sorts of people treated as the authorities on racism, targeting the likes of Lineker as being the ones who are really guilty of racism.
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It is astonishing how much power and influence the Zionists have. The BBC is their lapdog.
The trump regime, the BBC, Canadian news, companies and government, I’m sure there are more. Mossad has been busy for decades ensuring Zionism is protected worldwide.
The CBC in Canada.
The BBC has been compromised for about a decade now. Cameron abolished the BBC Trust and replaced it with a board of political appointees. They then went about filling key positions from the top down with Tory ideologues.
This is the result, the rapid erosion of one of the remaining truly great things we had in Britain. I’m not even sure if there’s a viable way back now.
And it’s had such a stark effect. The lack of accountability hidden behind the defence of “objectivity” has turned them into a government mouthpiece.
Long gone are the days when minister feared interviews with the likes of Robin Day or Paxman.
Paxman was an aggressive tit, but I hear you
He was an aggressive tit focussed on government ministers who need to be challenged aggressively.
Agreed, but he hand a tendency of grilling them into Yes/No situations without letting them explain the grey areas
Remember folks that without these regim whores, genocide wouldnt have gone as far
Here is the video shared by Gary Lineker for those who want to judge for themselves.
He looks a bit like an evil Jason Slaughter (aka NotJustBikes)
Emily Maitlis (former BBC newsreader and Newsnight host) says she got a telling-off from the BBC for Tweeting that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament “isn’t something that we would welcome” (i.e. in a democratic country).
The BBC is a joke
It’s because he used a rat emoji when tweeting about it and comparing Jewish people to vermin is a Nazi trope.
This post doesn’t mean I support Israel’s actions btw.
No the post he reposted was from an accredited Palestinian but someone placed a rat emoji on the video he retweeted. Gary did not know this was a dogswhiste and neither did I before seeing this.
It’s not a conspiracy though. People have lost their jobs in media or politics for similar things in the past. A lazy re-tweet becomes a transgression if you are a public figure.
No they have not for for any similar subject.
The Zionist organisation smearing him is posting extremely racist content about Arabs showcasing the level of hypocrisy we are dealing with.
