Lily Allen admits she’s ‘really worried’ after reading Grime artist Wiley’s anti-Semitic tweets that compared Jewish people to the Ku Klux Klan
Lily Allen has said she was ‘really worried’ after reading Wiley’s anti Semitic tweets on Friday.
The singer, 35, took to Instagram to reveal how she felt about the 41-year-old Grime artist remarks, and urged people to come together to have a sense of community.
Speaking from her bed the singer looked sad and upset as she said: ‘So I just had a look at Wiley’s Tweets. Oh dear.
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Thoughts: Lily Allen admitted she was ‘really worried’ on Satuday after reading Grime artist Wiley’s anti-Semitic tweets that compared Jewish people to the Ku Klux Klan on Friday
‘Oh I’m really worried about everyone just going for each other on the Internet and it all being egged on by Big Data and big tech.
‘Its just really sad watching communities who should be like, coming together helping each other out, turn against each other and I just feel like it’s going to get worse. I hope it doesn’t.’
In a series of tweets grime artist Wiley went on an anti Semitic rant by tweeting: ‘Jewish people you are not the reason I am wiley but I am the reason a lot of you have made money so shut up lol.’
Anti-Semitic: In a series of tweets Wiley wrote: ‘Jewish people you are not the reason I am wiley but I am the reason a lot of you have made money so shut up lol’
Candid: Lily looked sad and upset as she said: ‘Its just really sad watching communities who should be like, coming together helping each other out, turn against each other’
Other Tweets included: ‘If you work for a company owned by 2 Jewish men and you challenge the Jewish community in anyway of course you will get fired.’
He made multiple shocking comments, including calling Jewish people ‘too touchy,’ and saying Israel ‘is not yours.’
He even challenged those who said they’d report him: ‘Get me arrested let me see what the charge is you cowards.’
Wiley has been given a seven-day ban from Twitter over a series of anti-Semitic tweets which are being reviewed by police – as a campaign calls on Instagram to shut down his account to prevent a ‘further outpouring of anti-Jewish venom’.
Shocking: Wiley made a series of outlandish claims on his twitter feed on Saturday which resulted in him being banned from the site for seven days
The musician was given an hours-long ban after tweeting a stream of comments on Friday evening, but was back online by Saturday morning.
However, after he resumed tweeting, he was given a seven-day ban from the social media platform.
He also posted a series of videos discussing the ban to his Instagram account. In one he said ‘crawl out from under your little rocks and defend your Jewish privilege’.
While the video of Wiley telling Jewish people to ‘crawl out from under your little rocks’ has been removed, a post showing a snip of a tweet of a conspiracy theory about Jews funding and creating the KKK remains.
Wiley is said to have been dropped by his management company over the tweets, but he claimed that he cut ties with them.
When questioned on Wiley’s comments by MailOnline, the Metropolitan Police referred to a statement on the LBTowerHamlets Twitter feed which says, ‘the relevant material is being assessed’.
Appalling: WIley posted a series of videos discussing the ban to his Instagram account, and in one he said: ‘Crawl out from under your little rocks and defend your Jewish privilege’