The UK's largest Jewish group - The Board of Deputies - had written to Twitter, calling for Wiley to be permanently banned from the site. Stop trying to take my stuff and make me into Saddam Hussein. He sought to justify his comments by suggesting that "the Jewish community are powerful within the music business". The Campaign Against Antisemitism has referred one tweet to the police, saying it was an act of incitement to racial hatred as it said "hold corn", which is slang for "take bullets". Many of his tweets on his account, which had half a million followers, had been deleted by the time he was permanently suspended by Twitter on Wednesday. When asked if he accepts that his comments were antisemitic, he said: "My comments should not have been directed to all Jews or Jewish people." Image: Wiley said he is willing to hand back his MBE
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