BBC, Lineker and Israel – another blunder

Gary Lineker, the former footballer and  highest-paid on-air BBC star, presenter of Match of the Day for 26 years, will leave this weekend without a payoff. He apologised after it emerged he had reposted a pro-Palestine video on Instagram that criticised Zionism and included an illustration of a rat,  which was a Nazi anti-semitic trope. Two years ago he was temporarily suspended over comments he made criticising the Conservative government’s asylum policy. And earlier this