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Gary Lineker is expected to announce he is leaving the BBC on Monday after apologising for amplifying online material with antisemitic connotations, the Guardian understands.

The Match of the Day host will reportedly not present the 2026 World Cup or next season’s FA Cup after “bowing out by mutual agreement” with the broadcaster.

A rat is an antisemitic trope that was used in Nazi Germany to characterise Jews as vermin. Lineker said in a statement that he would “never knowingly share anything antisemitic” and had deleted the post “as soon as I became aware of the issue”.

The BBC director general, Tim Davie, had been facing calls all week to sack Lineker, who was paid £1.4m by the BBC last year.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

To be fare Jewish people have been characterized as so many things that it becomes hard to not be attacked as antisemites

From where I’m from a caricature artist made a Nethanayou vampire bleeding out Gaza. It was taken down with a « sincere » apology that the artist didn’t know that Jews were characterized as vampires in the Nazi cinema

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure some of the famous Nazi slogans called them "vermin" explicitly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

It wasn't just there, it existed long before the nazis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

I don't expect people to have an all encompassing knowledge of racism/bigotry, but yeah...

That sounds like it would warrant a legitimately sincere apology if the artist was unaware. I don't understand what the problem is there, that's what a rational person would do.