{"id":55447,"date":"2020-06-12T00:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55447"},"modified":"2020-06-12T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T06:45:34","slug":"doubling-down-on-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-rapper-ice-cube-tweets-again-and-faces-a-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/doubling-down-on-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-rapper-ice-cube-tweets-again-and-faces-a-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubling down on anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, rapper Ice Cube tweets again \u2014\u00a0and faces a backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Two days after being criticized for tweeting a mural some have called anti-Semitic, the rapper Ice Cube was back at it on Wednesday, tweeting images associated with multiple conspiracy theories \u2014 and facing open criticism from other celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>One image is of a Star of David with a cube in its center. A subsequent tweet shows black cube structures in different places around the world \u2014 the implication being that Jewish control spans the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was hit with a warning from Twitter saying that it \u201cmight contain sensitive content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/rgay\/status\/1270798734410911747<\/p>\n<p>The message prompted another wave of criticism, including from prominent journalist Roxane Gay and commentator Marc Lamont Hill, who has apologized after being wrapped up in an anti-Semitism controversy of his own in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Hill, Cube said he was just being \u201cpro-Black.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What if I was just pro-Black? This is the truth brother. I didn\u2019t lie on anyone. I didn\u2019t say I was anti anybody. DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE. I\u2019ve been telling my truth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1SnGaGacM9\">https:\/\/t.co\/1SnGaGacM9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ice Cube (@icecube) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/icecube\/status\/1270928015522795521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ice Cube has long had a fraught relationship with Jews: The NWA founder supports Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (see his anti-Semitic Twitter history here), has toyed with anti-Semitic concepts in lyrics and allegedly assaulted and shouted epithets at a rabbi in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Marlow Stern details Ice Cube\u2019s history of anti-Semitism in the Daily Beast.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Doubling%20down%20on%20anti-Semitic%20conspiracy%20theories%2C%20rapper%20Ice%20Cube%20tweets%20again%20%E2%80%94%C2%A0and%20faces%20a%20backlash\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137,25],"tags":[7071,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55450,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55447\/revisions\/55450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}