Priti Patel has demanded a full explanation into Wiley’s anti-semitic Twitter and Instagram rants this weekend
Reacting to the controversy, Priti tweeted on Sunday: ‘The antisemitic posts from Wiley are abhorrent.‘They should not have been able to remain on Twitter and Instagram for so long and I have asked them for a full explanation.’She added: ‘Social media companies must act much faster to remove such appalling hatred from their platforms.’The antisemitic posts from Wiley are abhorrent.
They should not have been able to remain on Twitter and Instagram for so long and I have asked them for a full explanation.— Priti Patel The musician, real name Richard Cowie Jr, tweeted ‘Israel is not yours’ and claimed: ‘I would challenge the whole world of jewish community on my own I am not scared I can handle them.He was, with John Woolf confirming: ‘Following Wiley’s anti semitic tweets today we at @A_ListMGMT have cut all ties with him. There is no place in society for antisemitism.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism had also asked police to investigate the content and called for Wiley’s accounts to be shut down ‘to prevent further outpouring of anti-Jewish venom’.They added that they would be contacting the Cabinet Office to ask that Wiley’s MBE, which he received in 2018 for services to music, is revoked.
The spokesperson said: ‘Wiley has many hundreds of thousands of followers on social media and we have seen today that many of them truly believe the unhinged hatred that he is spreading.The Met Police then said in a statement: ‘We are aware of reports of alleged anti-Semitic comments posted on social media and are looking into the matter.’
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