A resolutely unapologetic Kanye West continued his antisemitic streak over the weekend, doubling down on his past smears of Jewish people and opening a live-stream event for Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, Breitbart reports.
The billionaire rapper and fashion mogul is coming off an especially tumultuous few days during which he announced he will run for president in 2024. He also met with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago — a meeting that ended with Trump publicly calling West a “seriously troubled man.”
West spoke to the press briefly on Shabbos, refusing to back down on his past comments villainizing all Jewish people and particularly Jewish businessmen. “It’s not OK,” he said. “We’ve now seen everything that happens if you speak up on these contracts and you speak up on all of the dealings that have been done and you point this stuff out — they try to destroy me.”
West seemed to be referring to his past comments about Josh and Jared Kushner that he made during an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson in October. He also appeared to echo his past criticism of Hollywood record label contracts that he has argued are unfair to black artists.
Since his Tucker Carlson interview, West has made a string of antisemitic comments, including threatening to go “death con [sic] 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE” and claiming that the “Jewish people have owned the black voice.”
On Shabbos, West told reporters that he is “one of the most forgiving people” before adding, “I can’t hate anyone.”
West provided the introduction for Nick Fuentes’ livestream on Shabbos, saying in a brief video message: “I’m Ye. Welcome to ‘America First.’ We’ve got a great show for you tonight,” he said.
Fuentes has used his “America First” show to repeatedly deliver rants against Jews, once saying that “organized Jewry is extremely influential in the United States.” He has also told Jews to stop talking about the Holocaust. “I’ve heard enough about this Holocaust,” he said on one show. “I’ve heard enough about it.”
In 2019, a clip emerged of Fuentes denying the Holocaust. Fuentes has also called Donald Trump’s disavowal of white supremacy “totally wrong and a big mistake.” Read more at Breitbart.
This guy does seem like facing his future is going to be revealing.
Fame of the fink. It surrenders gasping.
I think ye is doing it now lihacheis. If everyone would keep quiet and lay low for a while, these haters would have no audience to spew their hatred. If the left wing media, which hates Jews like poison anyway, keeps raitzing un these lowlifes, they are only going to respond with more hate.
Question. When are we going to stop pretending that this is just a “Kanye problem” and recognize there is an actual, sizeable percentage of people in the black community that are antisemitic.
They are led by Farrakhan and his ilk, and many more that I have never heard of. Kanye is just another black anti-semite. The media, left and right, is terrified to point this out and will continue to insist that it is just individual nuts like Kanye or Kyrie Irving. It is not, and we should not be afraid to call them out as a group the same way we call out white supremacists as a group.