$8M and apology for Gitmo time
RAPPER JAY-Z uses an “odious and false” stereotype about Jews on his latest album, an anti-bigotry organization charged Thursday.
The Anti-Defamation League specifically called out the hip hop mogul for lyrics in the song “The Story of O.J.” on the new album, “4:44.”
“You wanna know what’s more important than throwin’ away money at a strip club? Credit,” JAY-Z sings. “You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it.”
That language plays into “deep-seated anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews and money,” the ADL said.
“The idea that Jews ‘own all the property’ in this country and have used credit to financially get ahead are odious and false . . . . We are concerned that this lyric could feed into preconceived notions about Jews and alleged Jewish ‘control’ of the banks and finance.”
JAY-Z has not responded to the ADL or the Daily News. A CONVICTED terrorist who killed an American soldier received $8 million and an apology on Friday from the Canadian government for the time he spent at Guantanamo Bay.
Omar Khadr, 30, was held at the U.S.’s secretive Cuban prison for a decade after being captured in 2002 fighting with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and pleading guilty to killing special forces medic Sgt. Christopher Speer with a grenade.
Khadr, a Canadian citizen and the son of an Al Qaeda leader, was 15 at the time.
Conservative lawmakers lambasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for the decision, saying that an admitted terrorist had no business being “Canada’s newest multimillionaire.”
A lawyer for Khadr praised Trudeau and called the infamous Cuban prison a “torture chamber.”