Police investigate anti-Semitic tweets by grime artist Wiley

London's police are investigating after a stream of anti-Semitic comments were posted on British grime artist Wiley’s social media accounts.

Twitter banned rapper for seven days after rants on Friday and Saturday. He was also dropped by his manment company after incident.

London’s Metropolitan Police said y h received a number of complaints. “ Met takes all reports of anti-Semitism extremely seriously,’’ police said. “ relevant material is being assessed.”

41-year-old artist, whose real name is Richard Cowie, is kwn as “Godfar of Grime.” He received an MBE award for services to music in 2018.

Wiley’s manr, John Woolf, said A-List Manment group h “cut all ties” with musician following posts on Twitter and Instagram.

“Following Wiley’s antisemitic tweets today we at @A_ListMGMT have cut all ties with him. re is place in society for antisemitism,” Woolf said on Twitter.

Campaign Against Antisemitism accused Twitter of moving too slowly to remove offensive content. Some of tweets remain. Among those who objected are Labour lawmaker Jess Phillips.