LONDON, July 30 — British rap scene godfather Wiley apologised yesterday for “generalising” but refused to distance himself completely from anti-Semitic posts that got him permanently banned by Twitter. “I’m not racist, you know. I’m a businessman,” Wiley told Sky News after the...
Facebook deactivated Wiley's accounts on Tuesday and Twitter permanently banned him yesterday. — Reuters pic
“My comments should not have been directed to all Jews or Jewish people. I want to apologise for generalising, number one, and I want to apologise for comments that were looked at as anti-Semitic.” He had half a million followers before Twitter suspended him for seven days last Friday for a series of posts that compared the Jewish community to the Ku Klux Klan.
British police said they were investigating some of his statements and interior minister Priti Patel called his posts “abhorrent”. “Judaism teaches that the concept of forgiveness constitutes one of the most essential fundamentals of the human relationship with God and with each other,” Woolf tweeted.
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