However, appearing on the podcast Palestine Deep Dive this week, Lineker addressed the “fallout” from the incident. "I am stupid but I’m not that stupid, to do something that would inflict self-harm in that way. Gary Lineker and the post he reshared on Instagram[Missing Credit]Lineker, who was formerly the BBC’s highest-paid presenter, also said during the episode that “only I know whether I’m antisemitic, and I’m not”. "I’m not anti anything but I’m really anti the killing of children, and that is my position, and at the moment that’s what the Israeli government is doing,” he went on. Lineker left the BBC in 2025 after issuing the apology over the controversy surrounding the rat imagery.