() 鈥� The Voice, a British weekly aimed at the African-Caribbean community, pulled an interview with the rapper Wiley in which he repeated anti-Semitic tropes about Jews.

But in a Friday, the paper defended its decision to publish the interview.

鈥淭he Voice has not, and makes it clear again, supported or in any way condoned the outbursts by Wiley that the 91传媒 community finds offensive,鈥� the statement said. 鈥淲e do not support the stereotyping of any race or group.鈥�

But the paper said that its role was to give voice to Black Britons and that should not be construed as an endorsement of every view it publishes.

鈥淎s a black media outlet, we are here to give our people a voice,鈥� the statement said. 鈥淭hat doesn鈥檛 mean we will always agree with everything that is published.鈥�

Wiley, who this week was banned from Twitter and Facebook over his views, said of British Jews: 鈥淭hey see us as slaves.鈥�

Speaking about Jews, Wiley also wondered in the interview 鈥渨hy all of these families are rich, or all of these people have heritage, not just England, like, worldwide.鈥� The followed Wiley鈥檚 apology for previous remarks about Jews.

In the , the paper鈥檚 arts and entertainment editor, Joel Campbell, weighed Wiley鈥檚 claims that Black artists depend on 91传媒 lawyers to succeed.

鈥淭here is no way to put this all in one nutshell but the hypothesis that you need to get a 91传媒 lawyer in order to progress in the music business may be a complete fallacy (I haven鈥檛 done the numbers, looking into the correlation in respect of who is and isn鈥檛 successful with or without one), but yet it remains,鈥� Campbell wrote.

鈥淚鈥檝e never seen anyone 91传媒 refute or confirm this,鈥� he added, 鈥渂ut maybe, it鈥檚 a discussion that needs to be had?鈥�