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Kanye West condemned by Simon Wiesenthal Center

ICYMI: Founder and CEO of the SWC Rabbi Marvin Hier and the Associate Dean and Global Social Action Director of the SWC Rabbi Abraham Cooper condemned the rapper successful a connection connected Thursday.

“History teaches america that words and ideas tin person profound consequences. Kanye West’s serial anti-Semitism is present accompanied with the deconstruction of evil. Louis Farrakhan, America’s godfather of hatred called Hitler ‘a large man.’ Following successful his footsteps, Kanye West—influencer of millions—now touts Hitler arsenic ‘bringing thing of worth to the table.’ Yes Kanye, what Hitler brought to the array was genocide, racism, and a satellite warfare that killed tens of millions and astir destroyed our civilization. Before helium had the powerfulness to act, backmost successful 1919, Hitler already outlined his imaginativeness of ‘the last removal of Jews.’”

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 11:25

Edward Snowden claims Kanye ‘not gunna beryllium president’ aft antisemitic remarks

ICYMI: Famed leaker and dissident Edward Snowden is the latest idiosyncratic to measurement successful connected Kanye West’s continued antisemitic rantings.

Snowden, nary alien to angering the US governmental system—though for precise antithetic reasons that West of course—took to Twitter connected Thursday to reason that the rapper’s caller behaviour means helium won’t get elected successful 2024.

“Turns retired Kanye is not gonna beryllium president,” Snowden wrote.

Here’s our reporting connected West’s 2024 ambitions.

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 11:05

Elon Musk has the past connection against Kanye West: ‘FAFO’

Elon Musk has had the past connection against Kanye West aft helium suspended the antisemitic rapper from Twitter for posting a Nazi awesome wrong the Star of David.

The tech billionaire, who had welcomed the disgraced prima backmost to the level lone weeks earlier, posted the not-so-subtle tweet “FAFO” precocious connected Thursday night.

The acronym stands for “F*** Around and Find Out” – sending a wide connection to West that helium had gone excessively acold and was nary longer invited connected Twitter.

The Independent’s Rachel Sharp has the afloat story:

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 10:45

In different news, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West officially finalise their divorce

The mates divided astatine the opening of 2021, ending their eight-year marriage.

West, present known arsenic Ye, volition wage $200,000 (£167,000) successful kid enactment to the world TV star.

Though the 2 were declared legally azygous astatine Kardashian’s petition successful March, issues of spot and custody remained.

Ye and Kardashian volition person “equal access” to their children North, 9, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Psalm, 3 according to the documents filed successful Los Angeles Superior Court.

Get the afloat communicative via Independent TV.

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 10:25

Trump soundless aft meal impermanent Kanye West says ‘I similar Hitler’ connected Alex Jones’ show

ICYMI: Just implicit a week aft helium hosted disgraced rapper turned antisemite Kanye West and a brace of racist, net trolls for meal astatine his Palm Beach, Florida state club, erstwhile president Donald Trump remained mostly soundless successful the hours aft the rapper told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that helium is simply a instrumentality of the precocious genocidal Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Mr West made the shocking disclosure during an quality connected Jones’ Infowars programme alongside Nick Fuentes, the avowed achromatic nationalist who was 1 of a trio of guests who accompanied him to meal with Mr Trump past week.

After the conspiracy theorist said the onetime Grammy victor was “not a Nazi” and did not merit to beryllium “demonized,” Mr West interjected. He told Mr Jones that helium sees “good things astir Hitler,” the dictator who kicked disconnected the Second World War by invading Poland and masterminded the execution of 10,000,000 radical — including 6,000,000 Jews from Germany and crossed Europe — successful the wide genocide present known arsenic the Holocaust.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington.

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 10:05

Musk’s connection to Kanye: “FAFO"

Elon Musk had the past connection against Kanye West aft helium suspended the antisemitic rapper from Twitter for posting a Nazi awesome wrong the Star of David.

West shared the violative representation connected Twitter – conscionable hours aft helium professed “I similar Hitler” portion joining far-right conspiracy theorist and Sandy Hook denier Alex Jones connected his vigor show.

He past posted a photograph of a topless Musk connected a yacht.

The rapper’s relationship was suspended implicit the Nazi awesome for violating Twitter’s argumentation against inciting violence.

Behind the scenes, the 2 men appeared to get into a spat implicit the incident, with West sharing screenshots of messages helium had seemingly received from Musk done Donald Trump’s societal media level Truth Social.

“Sorry, but you person gone excessively far. This is not love,” Musk said.

“Who made you the judge,” West fired back, earlier sharing a screenshot that his relationship was suspended.

Musk past told his Twitter followers that helium had “tried my best” with the antisemitic rapper but that his relationship had to spell due to the fact that helium “violated our regularisation against incitement to violence”.

He past made airy of the “unflattering” topless photograph of himself, claiming that helium recovered it “helpful information to suffer weight”.

Then, successful a last follow-up tweet, helium made a last excavation against West, simply writing: “FAFO”

The word means: “F*** Around and Find Out.”

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 09:45

Elon Musk makes airy of Kanye West’s ‘unflattering’ photograph of him

Elon Musk has made airy of Kanye West posting an “unflattering” photograph of him, claiming that helium recovered it “helpful information to suffer weight”.

The caller Twitter brag suspended the antisemitic rapper from the societal media level aft helium posted an representation of a swastika wrong the Star of David.

After posting the violative image, West, besides known arsenic Ye, past besides shared a photograph of Musk topless connected a yacht.

West’s relationship was suspended implicit the Nazi awesome for violating Twitter’s argumentation against inciting violence.

After lamenting that helium “tried my best” with West, Musk added successful a follow-up tweet that the suspension was not related to the half-naked photograph of him.

“Just clarifying that his relationship is being suspended for incitement to violence, not an unflattering pic of maine being hosed by Ari,” helium tweeted, earlier jokingly adding: “Frankly, I recovered those pics to beryllium adjuvant information to suffer weight!”

Rachel Sharp2 December 2022 09:23

Kanye deletes Fuentes tweets aft arguable Mar-a-Lago dinner

ICYMI: Antisemitic rapper Kanye West has seemingly scrubbed his Twitter relationship of immoderate notation of his latest cohort, which includes achromatic supremacist vlogger Nick Fuentes and right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.

West has been the centre of contention for much than a period aft helium began publicly spouting antisemitic messages and hanging astir with far-right media figures. Last month, West attended a meal with Donald Trump wherever helium told the erstwhile president that helium intended to tally for the Oval Office successful 2024.

The rapper besides brought Mr Fuentes on with him. In past videos, Fuentes has called connected Mr Trump — should helium triumph successful 2024 —to halt elections and regularisation the US arsenic a dictator.

In a now-deleted video helium posted aft the meeting, West claimed Mr Trump was impressed with Mr Fuentes, who has antecedently denied the Holocaust occurred.

Graig Graziosi has the story.

Graeme Massie2 December 2022 08:29

Kanye West suspended from Twitter aft posting swastika wrong Star of David

Kanye West’s Twitter relationship has been suspended aft helium violated the platform’s argumentation against inciting unit by posting a plan of a swastika wrong the Star of David.

Twitter brag and tech-billionaire Elon Musk confirmed the suspension connected Thursday (1 December), tweeting that helium had “tried his best” to transportation the rapper not to stock specified posts.

On Thursday night, West shared the representation of the Nazi awesome implicit the Star of David, a awesome of Judaism.

He past shared an representation of Musk half-naked connected a yacht. “Let’s ever retrieve this arsenic my last tweet,” West wrote.

“That is fine,” Musk replied connected the representation of himself topless. “This is not,” helium wrote connected the since-deleted swastika tweet.

Ellie Harrison has much details here.

Johanna Chisholm2 December 2022 08:17

Republican Jewish radical condemns latest ‘vile' Kanye West antisemitism

ICYMI: Kanye West whitethorn beryllium moving progressively to the right, but his caller virulently antisemitic remarls are winning him fewer friends with Jewish Republicans.

“We vehemently condemn those comments and calll connected each governmental leaders to cull these messengers of hatred and relegate them to the dustbin of past wherever they belong,” The Republican Jewish Coalition said connected Thursday successful a statement, pursuing the rapper’s interrogation with Alex Jones, wherever he praised Hitler.

“Given his parise of Hitler, it can’t beryllium overstated that Kanye West is simply a vile, repellent bigot who has targeted the Jewish assemblage with threats and Nazi-style defamation,” the RJC continued. “Conservatives who person mistakenly indulged Kanye West indispensable marque it wide that helium is simply a pariah. Enough is enough.”

Graeme Massie2 December 2022 07:04

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