Gary Lineker: BBC’s Removal of Hamas Documentary is ‘Racist’

Gary Lineker has mounted a spirited defence of the now-pulled BBC documentary ‘Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone’ in a letter to BBC boss Tim Davie. Cometh the hour…

The departing football presenter is claiming along with Miriam Margolyes, Countryfile presenter Anira Rani and smattering of other BBC staff that it was fine to feature the minister of agriculture’s son prominently because his role in the Hamas government is “a civil service role concerned with food production” and “conflating such governance roles in Gaza with terrorism is both factually incorrect and dehumanising.[…] Read the rest