London's police are investigating after a stream of anti-Semitic comments were posted on British grime artist Wiley's social media accounts.
Twitter banned the rapper for seven days after rants on Friday and Saturday. He was also dropped by his management company after he shared the comments, which called Jews "cowards'' and "snakes,'' among other things.
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The rapper's Twitter account, which has half a million followers, published a series of tweets on Friday asserting that Jews systematically exploited Black artists in the music industry, continuing a pattern of exploitation dating back to the slave trade.
"Jewish people don't care what black went through they just use us to make money to feed their kids ... for generations as well," one tweet said.
"Hold some corn Jewish community you deserve it...," another tweet read.
British NGO Campaign Against Antisemitism referred that tweet to police saying it was an act of incitement to racial hatred as, it said, "hold corn" was slang for "take bullets."
The NGO accused Twitter of moving too slowly to remove offensive content.
Twitter has deleted some anti-Semitic statements on Wiley's account, but others remain, drawing criticism from other users of the social media platform.
"Even for Twitter this is shocking," said Stephen Pollard, editor of the Jewish Chronicle.
Labour lawmaker Jess Phillips said: "Just seen all the Wiley stuff. Why on earth have @Twitter left up such blatant anti-Semitism and hatred? It hits all the dangerous beats, Jews get things you don't get, they are in control, they think [they're] better... This is dangerous stuff. Surely it should come down."
Just seen all the Wiley stuff. Why on earth have @Twitter left up such blatant antisemitism and hatred? It hits all the dangerous beats, Jews get things you don't get, they are in control, they think their better... This is dangerous stuff. Surely it should come down.
— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) July 25, 2020
Several video clips also appeared on the rapper's Instagram account on Friday and Saturday.
"Crawl out from under all your little rocks and come and defend your Jewish privilege now," he said in one video.
London's Metropolitan Police said they had received a number of complaints.
"The Met takes all reports of anti-Semitism extremely seriously,'' police said. "The relevant material is being assessed."
The 41-year-old artist, whose real name is Richard Cowie, is known as the "Godfather of Grime." He received an MBE award for services to music in 2018.
Wiley's manager, John Woolf, said the A-List Management group had "cut all ties" with the musician following posts on Twitter and Instagram.
"Following Wiley's anti-Semitic tweets today we at @A_ListMGMT have cut all ties with him. There is no place in society for anti-Semitism," Woolf said on Twitter.
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