Rapper Ice Cube faces backlash over tweets considered anti-Semitic, including mural of businessmen surrounding Monopoly board

Rapper Ice Cube tweeted an image of a mural in London on Sunday that was removed after complaints that it was anti-Semitic.

The mural depicts six men in suits, apparently stereotypical caricatures of Jewish businessmen, sitting around a Monopoly board that is resting on the backs of nude brown and black men. The caption reads, “All we have to do is stand up and their little game is over.”

The art was installed by Los Angeles-based artist Mear One in 2012 in London. It was removed after complaints of anti-Semitism were made, but the future leader of the British Labour Party posted on Facebook that the art should not have been removed, comparing it to a mural painted by Mexican artist Diego Rivera that was destroyed by John D. Rockefeller, according to Corbyn, “because it includes a picture of Lenin.”

The rapper also published several posts that were called anti-Semitic by observers, including a graphic of a Star of David with a black cube in the middle and multiple images claiming the Jews enslaved in ancient Egypt were black, which is a belief promoted by the Black Hebrew Israelites. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro suggested Ice Cube would get away with open anti-Semitism because of his support for “woke” causes, including Black Lives Matter.

The Anti-Defamation League describes some sects of Black Hebrew Israelites as anti-Semitic, and the fringe group has been tied to the 2019 terrorist attack at a kosher market in New Jersey.

According to the ADL, “Believers assert that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshipers of God, and blacks are the true ‘chosen people’ and are racially superior to other ethnicities.”