Earlier today, Lineker shared a now-deleted Instagram video from the Palestine Lobby account that overlaid a cartoon rat emoji on top of an explainer about the Israel -Gaza war.

Rep. Brian Babin, who is also labeled as a rat in the cartoon, responded by noting that "portraying your ‘enemy’ as rats is the same anti-Semitic propaganda used in Nazi Germany." ...

I very much regret these references.” The video Lineker re-posted then deleted featured a cartoon rat, an antisemitic trope that harks back to 1930s Germany.

The video Lineker re-posted then deleted featured a cartoon rat, an antisemitic trope that harks back to 1930s Germany. The rat was overlaid on an explainer of the Israel-Gaza war presented by ...