Rapper Ice Cube Blasted on Social Media for Posting Antisemitic Image: ‘You Should Be Ashamed’

Algemeiner ^ | 6-7-20 | Shiryn Ghermezian

[SJackson]

Rapper Ice Cube came under fire on Saturday for posting an image on Twitter that’s been widely panned as antisemitic and refusing to remove it, despite repeated requests by Jewish activists.

Ice Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, has been tweeting support for the Black Lives Matter movement following the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Then, on Saturday morning, he uploaded the image of a group of sinister looking men, some with large hooked noses, sitting around a game board, with one full bearded gentleman counting money. The board rests on the bowed, naked backs of another group of men. Written across the image is “All we have to do is stand up and their little game is over.”

Ice Cube, 50, captioned the image “F*** THE NEW NORMAL UNTIL THEY FIX THE OLD NORMAL!”

FUCK THE NEW NORMAL UNTIL THEY FIX THE OLD NORMAL! pic.twitter.com/wNN3uwOb4K

The caricature first appeared as a mural in London’s East End and sparked a controversy in 2018 after Britain’s Labour Party leader at the time Jeremy Corbyn voiced support for the artist Mear One (Kalen Ockerman). Corbyn later apologized and the image was subsequently scrubbed.

According to journalist Michael Segalov, the iconography mirrors “antisemitic propaganda used by Hitler and the Nazis to whip up hatred that led to the massacre of millions of Jews. This extends to the table these figures are sat at, resting on human bodies, as the Nazis also depicted.”

Twitter users were quick to call out Ice Cube for sharing the offensive image and insisted that he remove the photo. Antisemitism researcher and blogger David Collier wrote, “You know Ice, if the only thing you have to use is something that is racist and oppressive towards another minority group, it really is time to rethink your whole argument.”

Another Twitter user wrote: “This not cool. Not at all. It is antisemitic and makes an enemy out of those who continue to fight with us. Our Jewish allies don’t deserve such vile tropes. You should be ashamed, sir.”

Yet another added, “This is a racist mural. We can’t fight hate by hating on others. We gotta win this united, not divided.”

Ice Cube’s hostile attitude towards the Jewish community has an extensive history. In 1991, the Simon Wiesenthal Center condemned his album “Death Certificate” for including many racist lyrics. One song on the album even called for the murder of a Jewish music industry figure.

In 2015, he allegedly had his entourage physically attack a rabbi who he bumped into in Detroit. Ice Cube, the rabbi said, “unleashed a string of antisemitic epithets at him for wearing a yarmulke.”

Last month, the rapper offered warm birthday wishes to infamous antisemitic minister Louis Farrakhan.

[SJackson]

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How this advanced BLM is beyond me.

[RummyChick]

so is he going to pretend he didnt know this depicted Jews?

[EEGator]

I can’t believe a member of NWA would do this...

[SJackson]

I wonder if the artist meant to have blacks holding up the board or if it was a function of painting on what I presume are red bricks.

[MplsSteve]

“I can’t believe a member of NWA would do this...”

LOL

[RummyChick]

Of the six figures depicted - Lord Rothschild, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Aleister Crowley, Andrew Carnegie and Paul Warburg - two (Rothschild and Warburg) were Jewish.[2][3]

“I came to paint a mural that depicted the elite banker cartel known as the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Morgans, the ruling class elite few, the Wizards of Oz. They would be playing a board game of monopoly on the backs of the working class. The symbol of the Free Mason [sic] Pyramid rises behind this group and behind that is a polluted world of coal burning and nuclear reactors. I was creating this piece to inspire critical thought and spark conversation. A group of conservatives do not like my mural and are playing a race card with me. My mural is about class and privilege. The banker group is made up of Jewish and white Anglos. For some reason they are saying I am anti-semitic. This I am most definitely not... What I am against is class.”[5]

[cgbg]

If blacks are allowed to hate white people, why can’t they hate Jews?

This political correctness stuff is so confusing. :-)

[SJackson]

He has a long history of antisemitic acts and lyrics

[Skywise]

And, of course, Twitter leaves this tweet up and doesn’t provide “fact checking”

Even if it’s not anti-Semitic it’s virulently racist.

[Sans-Culotte]

so is he going to pretend he didnt know this depicted Jews?

Why would he? He seems to be pretty open about his Jew hatred and love for Farrakhan.

[faithhopecharity]

For this no-talent Ice Cube to be dissing other folks who he thinks maybe have money.....is a giant joke!
Ice is worth at least $160,000,000.00 (and what did he contribute to make America and people’s lives better, to amass that huge amount of money?)

[SJackson]

Thanks, wasn’t aware of that. Givene Ice Cube’s history, I’m not giving him credit for knowing either. Though I will go to his twitter thread and see if he mentioned that. I’ll admit I’ve no great malice against John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Aleister Crowley, Andrew Carnegie either. Think of the parks and museum’s we couldn’t enjoy if they’d not created them. Wonder what’s remaining of Ted Turner’s $1 billion donation to the UN. Anything permanent for future generations.

[RummyChick]

the funny thing about this is that the mural only depicts two jews.

its not really about Jews

its about Bankers and elite

[RummyChick]

i cant even tell which one is suppose to be crowley

[Crim]

Aaaand...now you are quoting WIKIPEDIA????

Can you get any lower?

[mass55th]

Ask O’Shea Jackson about the Africans who captured members of enemy tribes, and sold them to slavers. Africans played a large part in the slave trade, regularly supplying slavers with the product they needed to sell. The slave system wouldn’t have existed without the help of Africans. Even today, slavery still exists in Africa. How come O’Shea Jackson isn’t complaining about that? Is Jackson his slave master’s name? More than likely.

[Crim]

So its only 33% anti Semitic?

And this is FUNNY to you??

[heartwood]

They are all historical figures, only two Jews.