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Wiley calls out ‘wind-up’ Lord Alan Sugar as he moves to YouTube after social media ban for anti-Semitic tweets


Wiley has called out Lord Alan Sugar in his latest YouTube video (Picture: Rex, Reuters)

Wiley has taken aim at Apprentice star Lord Alan Sugar in a new YouTube video as the MC’s anti-Semitism controversy continues. 

The Wearing My Rolex rapper has now moved to YouTube after being permanently banned from Twitter, Instagram and Facebook following his offensive comments about the Jewish community. 

In one tweet, Wiley compared Jewish people to the Ku Klux Klan and wrote: ‘Israel is not yours.’

Now in one of his latest videos, Wiley scrolled through his Twitter feed which he still has access to and read some of the tweets he’s spotted in recent days.

Lord Sugar had supported a Twitter blackout after criticising the platform for not reacting to Wiley’s tirade quickly.

‘It seems that @twitter is ignoring antisemitism and Jew hate by enabling the likes of @WileyCEO to spread poison on their platform. So from 9am today, let’s show Twitter it has to act. Please join me on a 48 hour walkout,’ Lord Sugar wrote.

Reacting to the tweet, Wiley said: ‘Alan Sugar you’re a wind-up mate. F***ing hell, Alan… Al, sit down mate. You think you’re special but sit down.’ 

The MC then held up his phone to show a 2018 tweet from Lord Sugar in which the businessman compared the Senegalese football team to sellers on a beach in Marbella, which threw the businessman into his own race row. 

At the time, Lord Sugar issued an apology for the offensive tweet and said: ‘I misjudged me earlier tweet. It was in no way intended to cause offence, and clearly my attempt at humour has backfired. I have deleted the tweet and am very sorry.’ 

Elsewhere in the video, Wiley said: ‘Remove the ignorance, remove all the bulls**t. You lot learnt something that you didn’t really know – or did you know? Could you feel it systemically? 

‘How did you lot feel towards the Jewish community in music business, entertainment or whichever field you was working in? Did you feel they kind of stick together?’ 

The Heatwave rapper addressed the anti-Semitism controversy in an interview with Sky News hours before, in which he denied being racist. 

Wiley apologised for making ‘generalisations’ about the Jewish community (Picture: WireImage)

‘I just want to apologise for generalising and going outside of the people who I was talking to within the workspace and workplace I work in. 

‘My comments should not have been directed to all Jews or Jewish people. I want to apologise for generalising, and I want to apologise for comments that were looked at as antisemitic.’ 

However, when asked directly if he accepted that his comments were antisemitic, the Wearing My Rolex star said: ‘My comments should not have been directed to all Jews or Jewish people.’

There have been calls for Wiley to be stripped of the MBE he received for services to music in 2018 over his comments, with the star saying: ‘Take it back.’ 

Wiley claimed that his manager John Woolf has the MBE framed in his house; Mr Woolf told Sky the award was framed for Wiley and he had never collected it.

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Lord Alan Sugar’s reps for comment.

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