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A pro-Israel lobby group has urged Spotify to remove pro-Palestine hip hop icon Lowkey from its music streaming service, alleging his songs were “inciting hatred, violence, and disinformation against Jews and Israelis”. The UK organisation We Believe in Israel (WBII) started a petition the last week to censor the British-Iraqi rapper, whose real name is Kareem Dennis. The petition has received only 324 signatures in over a week. In response, the rapper, whose songs include a track titled ‘Long Live Palestine’, has received a surge of solidarity from campaigners, journalists and other artists i…