Gary Lineker leaves BBC after criticism of Palestine posts
« Gary Lineker will leave her role as program manager when the season for » Match of the Day « 2024-25 is over, » the BBC writes in a press release.
This weekend’s broadcast By « Match of the Day » thus becomes Gary Lineker’s last in the BBC. It was clear before that the former national team striker is leaving the program after this season, but the idea was that he would be part of the channel’s broadcasts during the men’s football World Cup next year.
« He will not be part of the BBC monitoring of the World Cup 2026 or next season of the FA Cup, » writes the BBC.
The 64-year-old, who has a good bit over a million Instagram followers, shared a clip from the group Palestine Lobby with the text « Zionism explained in less than two minutes » together with a symbol depicting a rat.
The post was met by a criticism storm.
– he has caused Rough offending with this video, especially with his flagrant use of a raw emoji to illustrate Zionists, said a spokesman for The Board of Deputies of British Jews in an interview with the Daily Mail last week.
Gary Lineker then removed the post. He apologized and explained that he would never consciously share anti -Semitic messages, and that he did not know the symbolic meaning of the image.
