Kanye West ‘Spewing Dangerous’ Antisemitic ‘Rhetoric’: National Jewish Organization Urges Brands To Drop Him

Kanye “Ye” West has doubled and adjacent tripled down connected his antisemitic tweets and views helium has proudly made known implicit the past 2 weeks. Now, StandWithUs, an planetary non-partisan acquisition enactment that supports Israel and fights antisemitism, has spoken retired against his harmful remarks and is pleading with brands that enactment with Kanye to cease their relations with him. “Ye is spewing unsafe antisemitic tropes that beforehand hatred and sick volition towards Jews,” Roz Rothstein, co-Founder and CEO, told HollywoodLife successful an EXCLUSIVE statement.

“Companies should not beryllium profiting connected his sanction since helium is this hostile. This includes GAP which is inactive shamefully promoting his YEEZY hoodie,” Roz continued. “Kudos to Balenciaga and to CAA for dropping Ye. Adidas and Gap person yet to respond. People of goodwill should enactment acold distant from idiosyncratic who proudly regurgitates this level of abhorrent rhetoric.” GAP’s narration with Kanye is presently questionable, arsenic the problematic 45-year-old rapper notified the covering marque via his attorneys that YEEZY LLC is ending their 2-year partnership with them connected Sept. 15. Although GAP confirmed that their concern is dissolving, they person not spoken retired astir Kanye’s concerning remarks astir Jewish people.

Kanye West shows small remorse successful his caller attacks connected Jewish radical (Photo: Broadimage/Shutterstock)

The French manner location Balenciaga chopped ties with Kanye by Oct. 21, according to WWD. “Balenciaga has nary longer immoderate narration nor immoderate plans for aboriginal projects related to this artist,” Balenciaga’s genitor company, Kering, told WWD successful a statement. Furthermore, his erstwhile endowment bureau CAA confirmed they are nary longer representing the Donda rapper and that his upcoming documentary has been scrapped.

“This morning, aft treatment with our filmmakers and organisation partners, we made the determination not to proceed with immoderate organisation for our precocious completed documentary astir Kanye West. We cannot enactment immoderate contented that amplifies his platform,” 3 MRC workplace executives announced connected Monday, Oct. 24, per Variety. “Kanye is simply a shaper and sampler of music. Last week helium sampled and remixed a classical tune that has charted for implicit 3,000 years — the prevarication that Jews are evil and conspire to power the satellite for their ain gain.”

The connection from StandWithUs and Kanye’s collaborators cutting ties with him came arsenic the Los Angeles Times reported that determination has been a emergence successful antisemitic enactment stemming from Kanye’s antisemitic rhetoric. For example, determination was a objection connected the 405 Freeway successful Los Angeles that advertised the hatred group, Goyim Defense League. A idiosyncratic astatine the objection held a banner that read, “Kanye is close astir the Jews,” per The Jewish News.

All of these announcements travel astir 2 weeks aft Kanye ranted astir Jewish radical connected Twitter and claimed helium wanted to spell “death con 3” connected anyone tied to the religion. He past defended himself by saying “black radical are really Jew [sic].” The tweets were instantly removed for violating Twitter’s guidelines. He besides spewed hatred against Jewish radical connected the Oct. 15 occurrence of the since-deleted Drink Champs podcast and claimed, “Jewish radical person owned the Black voice” and that Jewish radical successful the euphony manufacture volition “milk [Black people] till we die”, according to Independent.

He past doubled down connected these claims erstwhile helium sat down with arguable British tv host Piers Morgan, 57, past week and said helium was “absolutely not” sorry for saying thing that helium has against Jews. He past confirmed that helium knew what helium said was racist, and said that’s what prompted him to accidental it.  “So you said it knowing it’s racist?” a shocked Piers asked. “Yes. I fought occurrence with fire,” the begetter of four proudly replied. “I’m not present to get hosed down. That’s a antithetic benignant of state fighter.”

"I volition accidental I'm atrocious for the radical I hurt…

"Hurt radical wounded people, and I was hurt."

Don't miss a preview of Piers Morgan's bonzer interrogation with Ye, formerly known arsenic Kanye West, connected TalkTV astatine 8pm.@piersmorgan | @kanyewest | @TalkTV | #PMU pic.twitter.com/qdhwQ5OFTU

— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) October 19, 2022

He besides called Piers a “Karen” for arguing with his viewpoint. “God forbid 1 remark could origin radical to consciousness immoderate of the symptom that my radical person went done for years,” Ye pushed back. He aboriginal added, “It’s not racism… I was successful a presumption wherever I was wounded and this was the mode I had the close to explicit myself.” He past told Piers helium should travel his pb truthful helium tin beryllium richer.

Before this aired, helium had already fought backmost against the backlash helium faced portion sitting down with Chris Cuomo. “When I wore the White Lives Matter t-shirt, the Jewish underground media mafia already started attacking me,” helium claimed.

And arsenic precocious arsenic Oct. 22, Kanye was inactive proudly backing up his statements. “I ain’t losing nary money,” helium told TMZ reporters, addressing his mislaid partnerships. “The time I was taken disconnected the Balenciaga site, that was 1 of the astir freeing days.” He besides implied that brands were dropping him simply to “score points.” Kanye reportedly hired Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez to oversee his businesses dealings successful the aftermath of the canceled contracts, but they reportedly couldn’t scope an agreement owed to his ongoing attacks connected the Jewish people. In his speech with TMZ, Kanye besides claimed that the backlash helium has received is due to the fact that of Jewish people.

Kim Kardashian has deed backmost against her ex-husband Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks (Photo: Shutterstock)

Kanye’s deficiency of consciousness has caused respective stars to talk retired against him, including his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. “Hate code is ne'er OK oregon excusable,” she wrote connected her Instagram Story connected Oct. 24. “I basal unneurotic with the Jewish assemblage and telephone connected the unspeakable unit and hateful rhetoric towards them to travel to an contiguous end.” Kim’s sisters, Khloe Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Kylie Jenner, each have followed suit on with galore different stars by posting a connection that reads: “I enactment my Jewish friends and the Jewish people.”