Gary Lineker Under Fire Over Controversial ‘Nazi propaganda’ Post Featuring Rat Emoji

[KhunLA]

31 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

The video which featured a rat emoji—a symbol that has historically been used as Nazi propaganda to dehumanise Jews.

And that is the problem.   Same with the swastika.  One nutter uses it, and even though been around for 100s of year prior, it's demonized by snowflakes or organizations the enjoy free press and or control of the press.

 

A rat ... I think they get enough bad press, they don't need any more.  Concentrate on their flees, or simple body lice, as they were the true demons 

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 it's not demonized by snowflakes or organizations the enjoy free press and or control of the press.

 

 

 

  Does that make sense ?

[KhunLA]

8 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   What symbol is that on your T-shirt ?

 

T-shirt ... oh please.  Proper collared, button shirt 😎

Mother would never let us out of the house looking destitute 

 

 

I posted swastikas before on the forum, non Nazi one, and they offended someone, and it got deleted.

 

Nazi one is always, usually, black on 45°, with white background surrounded or draped in red.  How any other confuses people simply shows their complete ignorance.

[KhunLA]

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Does that make sense ?

Oops, quick edit ... THANKS

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, JakeC said:

Here is the video: 

 

I inspected it closely for any rats before posting.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@de_bunking_/video/7496228924364655874

 

We live in the time of distraction, there is no other word for it, and only fools jumps to conclusions before true evidence is presented. 

 

Very few bother double check sources and investigate the truth through reliable sources 

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, JakeC said:

It's a bit ridiculous if you ask me. Complaining about an emoji, whilst staying completely silent or actually justifying the dehumanisation of Palestinians. 

Which is more egregious?

 

 

   Another attempt to turn the discussion into the Palestinian  issue .

This topic isn't about that subject .

Palestinian supporters always want to make everything about them and their cause 

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

 

I posted swastikas before on the forum, non Nazi one, and they offended someone, and it got deleted.

 

Nazi one is always, usually, black on 45°, with white background surrounded or draped in red.  How any other confuses people simply shows their complete ignorance.

 

   You would be allowed to wear that T-Shirt in the UK 

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Another attempt to turn the discussion into the Palestinian  issue .

This topic isn't about that subject .

Palestinian supporters always want to make everything about them and their cause 

Sounds like the mirror effect to me. 

[Patong2021]

31 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

It's a video of a very articulate and smart Palestinian woman tellling the truth about life in Israel.

 

I didn't see any rat emoji.

Have you ever been to Israel?

[KhunLA]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   You would be allowed to wear that T-Shirt in the UK 

Depends how ignorant the arresting officer was.  I wouldn't take the chance.  Simply raise your hand in a crowd and someone snaps a photo, and you're in trouble for a Nazi salute.  

 

I'll stay clear of countries that suppress free speech & expression.  Yes, I know TH won't let you discuss the royals or image of TH.  Almost as it should be, for us 'tourist' anyway.  If you don't have anything nice to say ... stay away 

 

That should be on arrival card, or a banner at immigrations, in every country.

[Social Media]

@JakeC & @Summerinsiam please stop the diversion attempts. Please also quote posts when responding. The topic is:

 

 

Gary Lineker Under Fire Over Controversial ‘Nazi propaganda’ Post Featuring Rat Emoji

 

[Nick Carter icp]

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Sounds like the mirror effect to me. 

 

   This story is about Gary Lineker posting a video demonizing mainly Jews by posting a video equating Jews with rats 

[norfolkandchance]

That's OK then Gary.

[Hummin]

20 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   This story is about Gary Lineker posting a video demonizing mainly Jews by posting a video equating Jews with rats 

Do you believe he shared that content on purpose, knowing the rat was there, or the rat symbolism?

 

Actually first time today I know the background of the rat symbol used in this context myself. And I thought I have read enough throughout the time. I could had done the same and not knowing

[Magictoad]

Lineker's excuse is that he DIDN'T KNOW that rats were used by the Nazis to represent Jews in the past. There is a whole lot more that Gary does  not know. That's why he should keep out of politics and stick to football.

[Bkk Brian]

6 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Do you believe he shared that content on purpose, knowing the rat was there, or the what the rat symbolism?

 

Actually first time today I know the background of the rat symbol used in this context myself. And I thought I have read enough throughout the time. I could had done the same and not knowing

 Gary Lineker playing the public for fools by pretending to be one. 

 

He knew, he played for spurs

 

 

[Hummin]

4 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

 Gary Lineker playing the public for fools by pretending to be one. 

 

He knew, he played for spurs

 

 

To be true, I truly dislike Gary, but I will not let that bias my judgment. 

 

Stoning is still represented in our world, I will not trow the first stone

[Nick Carter icp]

12 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Do you believe he shared that content on purpose, knowing the rat was there, or the rat symbolism?

 

Actually first time today I know the background of the rat symbol used in this context myself. And I thought I have read enough throughout the time. I could had done the same and not knowing

 

  I have no idea whether he knew , BUT he is solely responsible for what he posts on social  media

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, Hummin said:

To be true, I truly dislike Gary, but I will not let that bias my judgment. 

 

Stoning is still represented in our world, I will not trow the first stone

Nobody wants to stone him. It also makes no difference whether you like him or not. 

[Hummin]

1 minute ago, Bkk Brian said:

Nobody wants to stone him. It also makes no difference whether you like him or not. 

 

Figuratively meaning 

 

 

[Nick Carter icp]

2 minutes ago, Hummin said:

To be true, I truly dislike Gary, but I will not let that bias my judgment. 

 

Stoning is still represented in our world, I will not trow the first stone

 

  Do you think that its perfectly acceptable to liken people to rats ?

[Cameroni]

28 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   This story is about Gary Lineker posting a video demonizing mainly Jews by posting a video equating Jews with rats 

 

That's not true though.

 

The video is a very reasoned, articulate and rational attack on Zionism. In no way does the speaker in the video equate Jews with rats in her speech.

 

As always you have to turn to the Daily Mail for the real facts. The article below has the image of the rat. That rat pic is no way comparable to the Nazi cartoons of jews as rats, which the Daily Mail article also shows

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14706167/Gary-Lineker-fire-posting-pro-Palestine-video-featuring-rat-emoji-known-antisemitic-slur-Jews.html

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, Hummin said:

 

Figuratively meaning 

 

 

Deflect my point then.

 

He played for Spurs, he knew.

[Cameroni]

36 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

Have you ever been to Israel?

 

Don't be ridiculous, who in their right mind would go to Israel on holiday? I'm not insane.

[Nick Carter icp]

2 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

That's not true though.

 

The video is a very reasoned, articulate and rational attack on Zionism. In no way does the speaker in the video equate Jews with rats in her speech.

 

As always you have to turn to the Daily Mail for the real facts. The article below has the image of the rat. That rat pic is no way comparable to the Nazi cartoons of jews as rats, which the Daily Mail article also shows

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14706167/Gary-Lineker-fire-posting-pro-Palestine-video-featuring-rat-emoji-known-antisemitic-slur-Jews.html

 

   The spoken  content of the video is irrelevant to this story and thread  .

Why was the cartoon of the rat posted in the video ?

[Hummin]

12 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  I have no idea whether he knew , BUT he is solely responsible for what he posts on social  media

We all are, and there is consequences, 

[Bkk Brian]

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

We all are, and there is consequences, 

Yes and he is feeling those now.

 

Lineker’s apology is too little, too late

And just like that, the man who was about to be branded the Kanye West of soccer has won himself a reprieve in injury time...

 Gary Lineker must be hoping that his belated apology for sharing a pro-Palestine video featuring a rat emoji will save both his job and his reputation. But while it will probably achieve the former – this is the BBC we’re talking about – the latter ship sailed long ago.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/14/linekers-apology-too-little-too-late/

https://archive.ph/B5uKR

[Cameroni]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   The spoken  content of the video is irrelevant to this story and thread  .

Why was the cartoon of the rat posted in the video ?

 

Could be any number of reasons, somebody thought the rat is cute perhaps, it's kind of a cute rat photo, not a nasty one like the one in the Nazi cartoons, as shown in the link above.. I think that rat has a tear in its eye.

 

Maybe the author was born in the year of the rat and is studying Chinese astrology. And yes, maybe they were having a dig at Zionism by putting the rat cartoon under the word Zionism. Who knows.

 

Either way, it's perfectly ludicrous to claim that woman's very articulate and balanced speech in some way equates jews to rats, or that rat drawing is the same as the very nasty Jew-rat cartoons of the Nazis. 

 

It rather seems to me that apologists of Israel want to discredit this very reasoned attack on Zionism by crying "antisemitism" and indeed they have yet again, in 2025, succeeded in doing so and got Lineker to take it down and apologise. For the innocuous image of a rat. It really is ludicrous.

[Bkk Brian]

1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

 

Could be any number of reasons, somebody thought the rat is cute perhaps, it's kind of a cute rat photo, not a nasty one like the one in the Nazi cartoons, as shown in the link above.. I think that rat has a tear in its eye.

 

Maybe the author was born in the year of the rat and is studying Chinese astrology. And yes, maybe they were having a dig at Zionism by putting the rat cartoon under the word Zionism. Who knows.

 

Either way, it's perfectly ludicrous to claim that woman's very articulate and balanced speech in some way equates jews to rats, or that rat drawing is the same as the very nasty Jew-rat cartoons of the Nazis. 

 

It rather seems to me that apologists of Israel want to discredit this very reasoned attack on Zionism by crying "antisemitism" and indeed they have yet again, in 2025, succeeded in doing so and got Lineker to take it down and apologise. For the innocuous image of a rat. It really is ludicrous.

The worst apologist excuses I've read. 

 

“The BBC has allowed the situation with Gary Lineker to continue for far too long. He has caused great offence with this video – particularly with [its] egregious use of a rat emoji to illustrate Zionists. BBC should ask him to leave now rather than allowing him to dictate his own terms.”

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, Cameroni said:

 

Could be any number of reason, somebody thought the rat is cute perhaps, it's kind of a cute rat photo, not a nasty one like the one in the Nazi cartoons, as shown in the link above.. I think that rat has a tear in its eye.

 

Maybe the author was born in the year of the rat and is studying Chinese astrology. And yes, maybe they were having a dig at Zionism by putting the rat photo under the word Zionism. Who knows.

 

Either way, it's perfectly ludicrous to claim that woman's very articulate and balanced speech in some way equates jews to rats, or that rat drawing is the same as the very nasty Jew-rat cartoons of the Nazis. 

 

It rather seems to me that apologists of Israel want to discredit this very reasoned attack on Zionism by crying "antisemitism" and indeed they have yet again, in 2025, succeeded in doing so and got Lineker to take it down and apologise. For the innocuous image of a rat. It really is ludicrous.

 

   Stop looking for excuses , the rat was posted as an attack on Jews .

The video content was an attack on Zionism and rats were used to depict Jews .

Quite possible using rats to depict Jews could well be classed as Antisemitism