Ice Cube is Being Called Anti-Semitic Because of His Tweets
The memes in question stem from an erroneous Facebook account.
Ever since details around the death of George Floyd began circulating on social media, Ice Cube has been increasingly vocal online. On Wednesday, the former N.W.A. frontman sparked backlash with his latest posts.
After a string of memes exalting the Black Hebrew Israelites, Cube took aim at Jewish people. One meme he tweeted was a six-pointed Star of David, which has an outlined black cube. An additional image shows several black cubes, symbolic of the Black Cube of Saturn, which is an occult symbolism that is said to represent evil, darkness, war and conflict.
https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1270752897899229184?s=20
Conspiracy theories allow their proponents to flatter themselves into thinking base prejudices are but marks of intellectual sophistication. Even so, “cubes are symbols of Jewish control” reaches a new frontier of stupid when offered by a guy best known as … Ice Cube. https://t.co/icds6YCiLu
— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) June 10, 2020
It is impossible to take you seriously with regards to social justice or,.. anything when you post anti-Semitic imagery. What the fuck are you doing?
— roxane gay (@rgay) June 10, 2020
Cube has also sent out memes targeting the Warner Brothers, who Ice Cube accuses of being “racism pimps.” Subsequent memes echo anti-Semitic theories about Jewish influence on pop culture.
One meme from a couple of days ago depicts a mural that surfaced in London back in 2012. The meme shows a group of men — caricatures of Jewish businessmen — sitting at a Monopoly board. The board rests on the backs of naked Black workers. “All we have to do is stand up,” the meme is captioned, “and their little game is over.”
https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1269277079914209282?s=20
Ice Cube’s name was trending on Twitter. He continued to send out controversial tweets and memes. At one point, he tweeted out a veiled response to what people were saying.
DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE: THE DEVIL WILL COME AT ME (AND YOU) WITH THIS TATIC.
1)Dismiss us
2)Discredit us
3)Demonize us
4)Destroy us!!!
The formula they used against
Martin Luther King Jr & many others!!! Including women during the so called witch hunt!!!— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 10, 2020
You know who I am and what I stand for. I believe in actual facts and I stand on the TRUTH alone. LIES GET SPIT ON. https://t.co/JUJcsCO9PU
— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 10, 2020
According to The Daily Beast, other memes Cube posted originated on a Facebook account called Black Matter US. In 2018, The Washington Post‘s James Hohmann exposed the account as a front for a Russian manipulation campaign. According to Hohmann, the account maintained pages on multiple social media platforms. After attaining over 222,000 followers, Facebook shut the page down. However, duplicate accounts quickly surfaced in subsequent months.
Cube has — as do many other rappers — a long history of antipathy towards record label executives, many of whom happen to be of Jewish origin. Most notably, Cube holds a lifelong grudge against N.W.A’s former manager Jerry Heller. Disputes with Heller and MC Ren led to the group breaking up, as well as Cube’s beef with former bandmate Eazy E. On “No Vaseline,” he infamously accuses Ren of “letting a Jew break up my crew.”
Or, as Chuck Inglish put it.
Folks mad at Ice Cube for saying the same shit he been saying for 30
Years ??Is this what im picking up ?
— CHUCK INGLISH (@Chuckisdope) June 10, 2020
On Tuesday, Cube addressed the backlash over his tweets. At first, he clarified that his account wasn’t hacked.
“I speak for no organization,” he tweeted. “I only speak for the meek people of thee earth. We will not expect crumbles from your table.”
After Marc Lamont Hill called him out for spreading the theories, Cube argued that the memes were pro-Black, not anti-Semitic. “This is the truth brother,” he tweeted. “I didn’t lie on anyone. I didn’t say I was anti anybody…I’ve been telling my truth.”
What if I was just pro-Black? This is the truth brother. I didn’t lie on anyone. I didn’t say I was anti anybody. DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE. I’ve been telling my truth. https://t.co/1SnGaGacM9
— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 11, 2020
Michael Rapaport attempted to come to Cube’s defense. “Cube ain’t Anti-Semetic,” he tweeted. “He’s anti-asshole. Let the OG Disruptor disrupt.”
“Someone who actually knows me,” Cube replied.
Someone who actually knows me. https://t.co/HgYwmS5CTZ
— Ice Cube (@icecube) June 11, 2020
