Fresh Twitter ban for rapper Wiley
BRITISH rapper Wiley has been suspended from Instagram and Twitter, for the second time, over a series of antisemitic posts including one about “Satanic Jews”.
The singer was previously banned from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube in July 2020, and had since set up new accounts on some of the social media platforms.
Wiley, whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie, used the handle @WileyRecordings on Twitter to send out “racist hate towards Jews”, according to the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), The Jewish Chronicle reported.
From his new Twitter account, Wiley posted a video of Nation of Islam preacher Louis Farrakhan, a known antisemite, saying he was “here to separate the good Jews from the Satanic Jews”.
Other posts included Wiley appearing as an Orthodox Jew with the caption “gang s**t,” and another that read, “The Jewish Faces that Control Hiphop and Mainstream Black Music.”
Last year, police in Britain closed an investigation against the rapper following his previous antisemitic tirades because he was apparently not in the country at the time and could not be prosecuted under British law. He was then in the Netherlands.
Wiley had posted a stream of antisemitic tweets that included claims of connections between the Jewish community and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as repeated tropes about Jews and money.
“There are 2 sets of people who nobody has really wanted to challenge #Jewish & #KKK but being in business for 20 years you start to undestand [sic] why … Red Necks Are the KKK and Jewish people are the Law…Work that out,” the grime artist had tweeted to his nearly half a million followers.
Wiley’s Jewish manager had cut ties with him after his outburst, which prompted a 48-hour Twitter boycott by British Jews who were unhappy with the social media platform’s response.
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