(JTA) — 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 — and facing open criticism from other celebrities.
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 — the implication being that Jewish control spans the globe.
The tweet was hit with a warning from Twitter saying that it “might contain sensitive content.”
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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.
In response to Hill, Cube said he was just being “pro-Black.”
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. Marlow Stern details Ice Cube’s history of anti-Semitism in the Daily Beast.
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