30 New Kanye West and Antisemitism Posts
/ Anne Enke
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The Jewish global human rights organization Simon Wiesenthal Center released its Top Ten Worst Global Anti-Semitic Incidents 2022 on January 29. [see pdf].
Ye topped the list for “his continued anti-Semitic comments and leveraging his immense social media platform to weaponize hate, bigotry, and ignorance.”
Kanye West, legally known as Ye, seems to have gone underground, although TMZ reported a single Kanye citing in LA in December. A former business manager for the rapper Thomas St. John has filed a $4.5 million lawsuit against West but is unable to serve him with papers. St. John has requested an extension from the court.
Yeezy Rent Eviction Looming
Reports are that West’s Yeezy offices in California are on the verge of eviction after missing both November and December’s rent payments of $31,477.40 per month.
Rolling Stone Magazine keeps up the blistering pace of their reporting on all matters related to Kanye West. In a new piece by Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone says that the rapper spoke of his admiration for Hitler during the making of 2004 Grammy-winning debut album ‘The College Dropout’.
West allegedly studied Nazi propaganda strategies and power-gaining tactics to formulate his own personal persona as a rapper, with the goal of using Nazi tactics to achieve his own fame and success.
Sharp Drop in Kanye West’s Republican Support December 2022 YouGov America Poll
In October, Republicans were split (45% favorable to 42% unfavorable) on their opinion of Ye in the You/Gov America poll. Now, just 26% have a favorable opinion of him and 65% have an unfavorable opinion.
For the first time in its 80-year history, the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has rescinded the highly-valued, prestigious honorary doctorate it awarded to Kanye West in 2015.
In an email sent to members of the SAIC community today, the school’s president Elissa Tenny cited Ye’s recent “disturbing behaviors” and “dangerous statements” as the reasons behind the decision.
“His anti-Black, antisemitic, and incendiary statements, particularly those directed at Black and Jewish communities, are disgusting and condemnable,” Tenny wrote. “His words and actions have been painful for our entire community and, particularly, for those of us who feel that our identities and life experiences are under attack.”
On January 5, 2021 — the night before MAGA Voters tried to overthrow the US federal government, with defeated US president Donald Trump refusing to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden— Georgia voters sent two new Democratic senators to Washington: Jewish Sen. Jon Ossoff [l] and African-American Senior Pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Sen. Raphael Warnock [r]. This honored senior pastor preaches as a US Senator from Martin Luther King Jr.'s former congregation.
Sen. Warnock was filling out the term of another Trump-appointed Republican senator for two years, when he won in 2021.
Tonight Georgia voters — including significant numbers of white Independent and white Republican voters in Georgia — joined Democrats to re-elect Sen. Warnock to a full six-year term as senator. This American thanks you deeply.
Unlike Nike’s Michael Jordan standalone partnership, where the two groups are separate but both flying under the Nike banner, the Adidas - Kanye West relationship was run under the Adidas organization. Separate teams were created for the Yeezy business, but the staff was Adidas for the most part.
According to Rolling Stone, the Adidas employees claimed that senior managers were aware of West’s “problematic behaviour” but “turned their moral compass off” and failed to protect its employees against “years of verbal abuse, vulgar tirades, and bullying attacks.”
West appears to have been a rude, crude, demanding, demeaning, controlling, sleezy, misogynist provocateur in his role as a critical Adidas partner.
Kanye West, legally known as Ye, has declared his candidacy for the 2024 presidential run.
Factually-speaking it’s widely confirmed that Ye did in fact dine with Trump Mar-a-Lago, along with white nationalist Nicolas Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos, earlier this month.
Milo Yiannopoulos, previously known as ‘The Dangerous Faggot’, has been announced as Kanye West’s 2024 campaign manager. Supposedly he has renounced his gayness and is opening a gay conversion therapy center in Florida.
We don’t know if Kanye West is referring to the Illuminati in his latest rant that began Friday night. Note that The Root raised the question. But the fact that he spoke about his own colleages — some of them already associated with the Illuminati — suggests that this is the secret society Kanye is ranting about.
Last night West began calling out people by name who he says are currently “under control” by unnamed powers. “They can’t control me, you know what I’m saying,” West begins. “They can control Shaq, they can control Charles Barkley, they can control LeBron James.
“They can control Jay-Z and Beyonce,” West said. “But they can’t control me. Ain’t no name I won’t name. It’s up.”
It got worse, when West began speaking on Hollywood “sacrifices” — including the death of his mother Donda West.
Anne here. The good news is that the book — made into a film — ‘Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America’ did arrive. NBA Nets star Kyrie Irving, with backup from Kanye West, did put the book in overdrive.
For me, I want the book, because Anne is not interested in research with no footnotes — or an ability to pause and Google a statement just made, against other research resources. This is how I read most books.
Kanye’s statement that he has never read a book is ironic. Ye compared reading books to eating brussel sprouts, while owning a school Donda Academy. Kanye’s school is now closed due to his antisemitism and the rebuke and resignations by Jews involved with Donda Academy’s curriculum development.
On Thursday Nets guard Kyrie Irving was suspended indefinitely for promoting an anti-Semitic film based on the book “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America”. The book promotes several anti-Semitic tropes, including the despicable lie that the Holocaust never happened.
Late Friday, Nov 4, NIKE suspended its relationship with Kyrie Irving, including the introduction of his new NIKE KYRIE 8 shoe. ESPN reported last May that dealings with Kyrie Irving were so complex for Nike, that there was a good chance that Nike would not renew his contract at the end of the 2022/23 season.
Nike has produced Irving’s popular signature shoe since 2014 and is taking the financial hit on cancelling the Kyrie 8 launch.
“At Nike, we believe there is no place for hate speech, and we condemn any form of antisemitism,” the company said.
Honestly, I thought that Kanye might have a bit of humility after the very public embarassment of burning down his business with his MAGA-love, White Lives Matter, anti-Semitic month of October. To read that West hadn’t even bothered to trademark White Lives Matter was astonishing for a man who used to think he should run with Bernard Arnaud.
It’s really not “master of the universe thinking” to blow your entire business up over an incendiary brand concept, coupled with your anti-Semitism, and you didn’t bother to trademark your brand concept. Who did you blame that oops on Kanye?
Thankfully, the White Lives Matter trademark is in good hands with Quinton Ward and Ramses Ja of CIVIC CIPHER.
Many of us are determined to start publishing good stories about black, brown, yellow, red, white, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and everybody else living together in America. And this is a GREAT story!
Civic Cipher is a nationwide show that started in 2020 to create a space for Black and brown people to have courageous conversations.
West will give them the finger and do what he wants, while ranting on Parler that Ja and Ward stole his designs. But facts matter, and Kanye West would be violating their trademark.
The trademark was filed the day Kanye West dropped his WLM clothes in Paris. The original owner of the trademark is a listener of their show. The original filer was so disturbed over the implications of Kanye West’s marketing of the divisive and race-baiting merchandise that he moved immediately on a filing. That individual wishes to remain anonymous.
Until today, November 1, 2022, the worst news I’ve heard recently about the young Jewish hero Anne Frank was a book about her being swept into the book-banning insanity underway in Texas and across America.
Today’s news is a constellation of Anne Frank, Kanye West and far-right Swedish politician Rebecka Fallenkvist.
The Swede posted on Instagram about Anne Frank’s journal, with Kanye West’s ‘Praise God’ Music to accompany Fallenkvist’s words.
“Fifty pages in and so far Anne Frank has only struck me as debauched, the horniness itself,” Sweden Democrat (SD) Rebecka Fallenkvist wrote on Instagram.
AOC was asleep at the wheel on the subject of Candice Owen and her husband George Farmer, who she married in 2019, being the power couple behind Parler.
Republican mega donor Rebekah Mercer would take issue with who is in charge of Parler, as she controls two of three board seats. To be honest, the Mercer heiress hasn’t gotten much of a return on her investment in uber-right-wing media investments: Parler, Breitbart News and Cambridge Analytica.
The Parler app got banned in the aftermath of America’s January 6 insurrection because it was a haven for communication and calls to war among those who want to overthrow the US government. Apple, and other social media, banned Parler after the Jan. 6 riot.
The Washington Post broke down the whole story on Tuesday, with Candace Owens and Kanye West’s provocative friendship, explained. A subscriber to WaPo, I missed it because it was in the Style section. Although I’m sure the headline was a small one on the front page.
Kanye West compared himself to Emmett Till tonight, leaving me stunned.
Spending a Sunday evening with friends, of course we were talking politics. It was at the end of the evening in which I was in a fabulous mood — in spite of the dinner table conversation — that I learned that Kanye West had the hubris to compare himself to Emmett Till.
How dare you!!!! How could you steal his movie and make yourself the center of the headlines. How calculating of you, Kanye. How egotistical. How pathetic. You have been on an arrogant, self-destructive bender for weeks now, and with your back up against the wall, you have the nerve to compare yourself with the brutal lynching of Emmett Till.
We want to make Kanye insane. But this is a rational, vicious man who co-opts God to condone his actions. Kanye West is very dangerous.
Emmett Till and I share a birthday, and he lives VERY close to me, always in my psyche.
Ari Emanuel, CEO of William Morris Endeavor, is one tough businessperson from all I’ve read. But he doesn’t need Kanye’s Godly-man love message.
Kanye West's [aka Ye] Refusal to Treat His Mental Illness Is No Excuse For His Anti-Semitism AOC Daily
What Ari Emanuel needs from Kanye West is for him to reconsider his Ye-identity refusal to spend private time with the executives at the Holocaust Museum LA, educating himself on the facts of the Holocaust.
Kanye refused the meeting — yes, the same rapper who crashed into the corporate offices of Skecher’s yesterday — unannounced and uninvited — seems to have a problem with regularly scheduled, important meetings.
TMZ was first to report that Skechers says, Ye "arrived unannounced and without invitation at one of Skechers’ corporate offices in Los Angeles. Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation."
When you think you are God, you can’t imagine that Skechers— founded by Jewish man Robert Greenberg and now run by his son Michael, also a Jew, as the current president — has no interest in talking to an anti-Semite.
A spokesperson told TMZ, "Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West. We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. Again, West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices."
If Kanye West, legally known as Ye, read books, he would know the story of Icarus. AOC will educate West on that Greek history lesson with a TED video. It only took an announcement from Adidas for Kanye West to fall to earth and off the Forbes billionaire list, as a 21st century living example of the famous greek son of Daedalus.
Now Icarus died, but hopefully the Kanye West story will not evolve in this direction. For starters, hopefully West will seek medical treatment, as his Godly reign is now over. Can he recover as an uber-talented man with an ounce of humility? I doubt it, but hope springs eternal for Kanye, who I once admired.
Adidas, the German sportswear giant had faced pressure from the public and its own employees to cut ties with Ye, who said on a podcast on Oct. 16: “I can say anti-Semitic things, and Adidas can’t drop me. Now what?”
Adidas said in a statement: “Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech. Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.”
“After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. Adidas will stop the Adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.”
Today, Oct. 24, film and television studio MRC announced that it will not release a finished documentary on Kanye West, following his anti-Semetic comments. “This morning, after discussion with our filmmakers and distribution partners, we made the decision not to proceed with any distribution for our recently completed documentary about Kanye West,” CEO Modi Wiczyk, CEO Asif Satchu, and COO Scott Tenley wrote in a joint statement sent to the media. “We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform.”
Asked if MRC had submitted the Kanye West documentary to festivals, executives responded that “all activities are being pulled.”
In their open letter, the MRC leaders wrote that West has helped “mainstream” antisemitism in the current climate. “The silence from leaders and corporations when it comes to Kanye or antisemitism, in general, is dismaying but not surprising. What is new and sad, is the fear Jews have about speaking out in their own defense,” Wiczyk, Satchu and Tenley wrote.
After removing all visible references to Ye, known to the world as Kanye West, from their own websites on Thursday — along with any products sold on third-party websites carrying an association beween Balenciaga and the rapper/creative marketer of all things Ye or Yeezy — Balenciaga has issued a statement Friday saying that the luxury label no longer has "any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist.”
On Oct. 17, the Kering-owned luxury label fashion giant announced that saying Kanye’s runway imagers was removed from Balenciaga’s Spring 2023 Paris fashion show and also from Vogue Runway, as well as the Balenciaga website.
Balenciaga’s severing of any association with Kanye West is due to his recent anti-Semitic statements and threatening behavior, as expressed on the podcast Drink Champs. Kanye has threatened to go death con 3 on Jews in recent days.
Additionally, West’s right-wing, conspiracy-theory assertion that George Floyd died of a drug overdose — and not because of the nine-minute, knee on his neck, no-mercy murder that the entire world watched live — was stated as a reason why Balenciaga has severed all connections to Kanye West, legally known as Ye.
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We Cannot Be Silent About Kanye West’s Anti-Semitism
Ari Emanuel is one of the Jews Kanye was wailing about yesterday in his grievance-centered, interview with Chris Cuomo.
Emanuel has called upon companies like Apple and Spotify, like Adidas who is currently reviewing their contractual relationship with West and other business partners who raise revenue off of Kanye West, to suspend their relationships.
“West is not just any person — he is a pop culture icon with millions of fans around the world,” Emanuel wrote in an op-ed for The Financial Times. “And among them are young people whose views are still being formed. This is why it is necessary for all of us to speak out. Hatred and anti-Semitism should have no place in our society, no matter how much money is at stake.”
Indiana’s public news media WFYI reports that Attorney General Todd Rokita “came to the defense” of rapper Ye, known to the world by his former name of Kanye West. Roika wrote: “The constant hypocrisy from the media is at an all-time high. They have now gone after Kanye for his new fashion line, his independent thinking, & for having opposing thoughts from the norm of Hollywood.”
Here is the link to the article posted on MSNBC: No one should weep for Ye.
AOC notes that in an exclusively numerical overview, Jewish people have a much larger presence in Hollywood, as it relates to their percent of the total American population, about 2.4% of American adults.
Our current focus is AG Rokita defending Kanye West’s vitriolic anti-Semitism that was expressed before his recent social media posts. In new information that broke Oct. 12, JP Morgan bank told Kanye West that they would no longer be his banker, giving him a month to move his money out of the institution.
It was on Twitter where, early Sunday morning, West posted the unambiguous message heard around the world.
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” he wroteearly Sunday morning in a Tweet that got him banned by Twitter and apparently with the knowledge of Elon Musk.
AOC noted last week in what must be ‘10 Great Reasons for Kanye West Not to Play Coachella’, that the divine rapper, who gets his instructions from God in the shower, was defying the owners of the Coachella Festival, who dropped Travis Scott from the schedule after the Astroworld tragedy.
Variety wrote that Kanye had nothing prepared for Coachella, North America’s largest music festival. Kanye is very aggrieved over what he calls the #MeToo mentality.
As a result he has welcomed Marilyn Manson, who is accused of serious sexual assault and proudly claimed that he had a rape room according to Rolling Stone, into his divine inner circle of holy men. Rolling Stone interviewed 55 people in their investigation Marilyn Manson: The Monster in Plain Sight.
Kanye wasn’t having it, choosing to invite Manson into his divine sanctuary, seeing Manson as a victim and all his accusers as the Devil’s women.
As the Remove Kanye from Coachella Petition cross 49,000 on the way to 50,000 signatures on March 29, Kanye’s honoring of Vladimir Putin’s throwing his opponent to the mat is chilling. Note though, that in Ye’s tweet, he is comparing himself to Putin’s style.
Two months before the election on Sept. 16, 2020, as he sought to be president of America, Kanye — like his good friend Donald Trump — felt totally comfortable celebrating Putin’s style of getting his point across. I don’t mean to be the armchair psychologist with no degree, but I note as an educated woman that Kanye steps into the Putin image metaphorically, writing “Rule Number one: Listen to Ye.”
Now Kanye West will tell you that he wouldn’t hurt a fly, but if you are seriously practicing ubuntu in the universe, you don’t 1) identify with Putin — although Kanye’s right-wing evangelicals loved Putin as the world’s top backer of Christianity as God ordered it; 2) write “Rule Number One” which is more authoritarian talk and 3) and order us to “Listen to Ye.” Kanye’s hubris is just staggering.
I guess MacKenzie Scott’s [formerly Mrs. Jeff Bezos] $275 million gift to Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday, March 23 warrants another call to God from Kanye’s shower. This is where Ye gets his marching orders that terrorize so many of us.
To be called a white supremacist by Kanye West, because I support Planned Parenthood, is worse than being hunted by one of Kanye’s ‘kind’, landing me in police protection for a year as this dude was seriously stalking me with a promise to kill me.
Imagine getting up every morning to a bloody, decapitated animal in a box on your front doorstep. Imagine walking out to your car at night after shopping at the local mall. There’s a noose on your door handle — matching the box of rope left on your doorstep that morning with the note “This is the rope I will hang you with, B#tch.”
That nightmare was in the past, and It’s 2022. Kanye West was running for president of the United States in 2020 — when he expressed his view about those of us who do the devil’s work. Uber religious men have a habit of calling women like me Devils.
