Barrister pens open letter calling for Wiley to be stripped of MBE following anti-Semitic posts
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metro.co.ukWiley to be stripped of his MBE, following a spate of anti-Semitic posts that saw him banned from social media.Last week the 41-year-old rapper caused outrage following a shocking rant in which he compared the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan and tweeted ‘Israel is not yours’.The tweets sparked a boycott of Twitter and were investigated by the Metropolitan Police, before it was confirmed by Twitter Wiley had been permanently suspended from the platform.Yesterday he insisted he wasn’t racist and apologised for ‘comments that were looked at as anti-Semitic’.
However Jeremy Brier has penned an open letter to the Cabinet Office this week, sharing it on Twitter on Thursday, outlining why he believes Wiley should have his MBE forfeited.Calls.
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