In an hours-long tirade on social media, Ye, the artist and designer who was once known as Kanye West, retracted his 2023 apologies for his previous antisemitic remarks, claimed to be a Nazi, and reaffirmed his love for Adolf Hitler.
He sent a profane remark on X, the old name of Twitter, saying, “I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments.”
His 2023 apologies, following a slew of antisemitic and pro-Nazi utterances that led companies like Adidas to sever their relationship with him, contrasted sharply with the taunting remarks. In his Hebrew-language apologies from 2023.
In a statement released Friday morning, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the group had denounced Ye’s “dangerous behavior” and referred to the rapper’s latest tweets on X as “a flagrant and unequivocal display of hate.”
Greenblatt remarked, “We know this game all too well.” “Let’s call Ye’s hateful public tirade what it is: a depressing attention-seeking tactic that makes Jews the blame. But regrettably, it does garner attention since Kanye has a large following on which to disseminate his hatred and antisemitism. Words count. Furthermore, hate speech can have real-world repercussions, as we have seen far too often.
A request for comment on Friday was not immediately answered by a Ye spokesman.
Elon Musk, President Trump’s inauguration, and the transparent gown his wife, Bianca Censori, wore on the Grammy Awards red carpet last Sunday were among the subjects covered in Ye’s other postings. He declared, “I have dominion over my wife.”
In a podcast interview this week, Ye claimed that he was misdiagnosed and that he actually had autism, despite having repeatedly referenced a bipolar illness diagnosis over the years.
