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OPINION - Hypocrite Gary Lineker has now been endorsed by Hamas and that’s a big problem for the BBC

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Saint Gaz is at it again. The famed Twitter Saint and self-elected MP for Virtue Signalling has this time got into hot water for reposting a statement on X calling for Israel to be suspended from global sporting bodies, including Fifa and the International Olympic Committee, due to the conflict in Gaza. The repost, now deleted, was from the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, a group long dedicated to the cancellation of Israel.

Now a -affiliated news agency has lavished praise on the “renowned English broadcaster”, as once again the ’s highest-paid presenter — who burnishes his as the moral voice of the nation — has caused the corporation considerable embarrassment.

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