{"id":271895,"date":"2020-07-25T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=271895"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:40:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T02:40:44","slug":"rapper-wiley-investigated-by-police-and-dropped-by-management-after-anti-semitic-twitter-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/rapper-wiley-investigated-by-police-and-dropped-by-management-after-anti-semitic-twitter-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Wiley investigated by police and dropped by management after anti-Semitic Twitter rant"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h5>\n
Another example of the 0.001% dictating the rules\u2026<\/span><\/h5>\n

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UK rapper Wiley is being investigated by the police and has been dropped from his management label following a bizarre outburst in which he posted a series of anti-Semitic tweets that sparked fierce backlash.
\nThe grime artist ignited outrage when he posted a deluge of tweets about Jewish people on Friday and Saturday, saying they are the\u00a0\u201creal enemy\u201d\u00a0who want to\u00a0\u201crob us blind,\u201d and comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

\u201cJewish would do anything to ruin a black man\u2019s life but it won\u2019t work with me I am a savage,\u201d\u00a0he said in one of the posts. He also told the Jewish community that Israel is\u00a0\u201cnot your country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tower Hamlets Police in London said it is assessing the\u00a0\u201crelevant material\u201d\u00a0after receiving a\u00a0\u201chuge\u201d\u00a0number of reports of alleged anti-Semitic tweets.<\/p>\n

Things went from bad to worse for the rapper after the outburst. Earlier, Wiley\u2019s manager, John Woolf,\u00a0tweeted\u00a0that A List Management have\u00a0\u201ccut all ties\u201d\u00a0with him, saying,\u00a0\u201cthere is no place in society for antisemitism.\u201d\u00a0However, Wiley, whose real name is Richard Cowie, disputed this claim on Instagram, saying it was he who cut ties with Woolf.<\/p>\n

Twitter and Instagram are being called on to remove Wiley\u2019s accounts, which have over 940,000 followers combined. He said Twitter temporarily suspended him after his rant, but that he was\u00a0\u201cback in action\u201d\u00a0on Saturday, when he continued to tweet similar claims. He then posted on Instagram that he had received a seven-day Twitter ban. Some of his posts have now been removed for violating Twitter\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we identify accounts that violate any of these rules, we\u2019ll take enforcement action,\u201d\u00a0a Twitter spokesperson told the Guardian.\u00a0\u201cThis account has been temporarily locked for violating our hateful conduct policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said it reported Wiley to the Metropolitan Police, asked Twitter and Facebook to shut his accounts, and said it will contact the Cabinet Office to ask for his MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) to be taken away.<\/p>\n

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RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Another example of the 0.001% dictating the rules\u2026  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":281046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}