Wiley has sparked outrage after going on a shocking Twitter rant spouting antisemitic abuse against the Jewish community.
The 41-year-old rapper – whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie Jr – has been slammed by fellow Twitter users after spending hours on Friday sharing hateful views online.
Twitter users have called for his account to be permanently deleted for hate speech, following the removal of Katie Hopkins.
In his abusive messages, Wiley – who has almost half a million followers – compared Jewish people to the Ku Klux Klan and shared antisemitic conspiracy theories about power and wealth relating to the Jewish community.
The Jewish Chronicle editor, Stephen Pollard, branded Wiley “racist”, and said he was ”spouting Jew hate, like neo-Nazis and the rest of them”.
Novelist Musa Okwonga called on Twitter to take action against the rapper.
He tweeted: “Wiley tweeting anti-Semitism unchecked for hours on end is a low point for Twitter.
"It is shameful to let any account do that, let alone one with such reach and influence.”
Anealla Safdar, the European editor of Al Jazeera news blasted the singer – and suggested he has been racist before.
She tweeted: “Unsurprisingly, Wiley, who told British Asian pop star Jay Sean ‘I will throw Bombay potatoes on you’, ‘Your mum makes a dodgy korma’ and ‘I will slap off your dad’s turban’, in 2011, is an unhinged racist. But he still was made an MBE in 2017.”
Other Twitter users also responded to Wiley’s tweets to condemn the star – but he appeared to double down.
One follower replied to the musician’s comments saying: "Delete this quick," prompting Wiley himself to reply: "No way."
He later denied his account had been hacked.
The rapper also tweeted: “Cancel me now lets how that goes tell John woolf this is the real smoke,” referencing his manager, John Woolf.
Woolf shared his own shock and dismay at Wiley's comments, telling the Mirror Online: "To be very clear here. I do not support or condone what Wiley has said today online in any way shape or form.
"I am a proud Jewish man and I am deeply shocked and saddened but what he has chosen to say.
"I am speaking to key figures in my community in light of today's tweets. This behaviour and hateful speech is not acceptable to me."
Mirror Online has also contacted Wiley's publicist for comment.
