Kanye West
(L-R) Kanye "Ye" West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
January 27, 2026, 1:15 pm
Ye apologizes for his antisemitism in Wall Street Journal ad
The apology follows an earlier conversation with an Orthodox rabbi.
By Andrew Lapin
Kanye West at Milk Studios for an Adidas + KANYE WEST partnership announcement on June 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. (Jonathan Leibson/Getty Images for ADIDAS)
March 9, 2025, 11:59 am
Adidas just sold off its final Yeezy shoe. Some of the proceeds are going to fight antisemitism.
The German sportswear giant that broke ties with Ye over his antisemitism is donating 250 billion euros it made from liquidating the rapper’s sneaker line.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
An AI-generated version of Adam Sandler appears in a celebrity-studded AI video rejecting Kanye West's antisemitism. (Screenshot via JTA)
February 12, 2025, 4:22 pm
In AI video, Jewish celebrities from Scarlett Johansson to Adam Sandler give Kanye the middle finger
The video, made by an Israeli entrepreneur, shows the celebrities wearing a shirt that echoes the swastika one Kanye West sold this week.
By Philissa Cramer
Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2025. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)
February 10, 2025, 9:21 am
Kanye West quits X after antisemitic rant
“It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board,” Ye posted.
By Philissa Cramer
Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)
February 7, 2025, 1:33 pm
Kanye embarks on a new antisemitic spree on X
“ELON THEY KICKED ME OFF OF INSTAGRAM SO HAPPY YOU BOUGHT X,” Ye tweeted early in his spree.
By Philissa Cramer
Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)
December 13, 2023, 4:17 pm
Kanye West’s album with antisemitic lyric on track to debut Friday
Album has a long list of famous collaborators
By Gabe Friedman
From left: David Duchovny as Arnold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Shelley, Jonah Hill as Ezra, Lauren London as Amira, Eddie Murphy as Akbar and Nia Long as Fatima in "You People." (Parrish Lewis/Netflix)
January 27, 2023, 11:04 am
Netflix’s ‘You People’ digs into Black-Jewish relations
It also plays a Kanye West song, twice.
By Andrew Lapin
Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, delivers remarks during a roundtable about the rise of antisemitism in the Indian Treaty Room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, Dec. 7, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
December 13, 2022, 8:16 am
Biden task force to draft strategy for fighting antisemitism
One spur for the task force was the recent full embrace of antisemitism by rapper and designer Kanye West, and former President Donald Trump’s dinner with West and Nick Fuentes.
By Ron Kampeas
Kanye West in 2009 (Photo by David Shankbone, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
December 2, 2022, 1:19 pm
Ye suspended again from Twitter
Kanye West removed from social media platform after posting swastika following pro-Hitler Infowars appearance
By Philissa Cramer
Kanye West with Alex Jones on "InfoWars," Dec. 1, 2022.(Screenshot)
December 1, 2022, 4:56 pm
‘I like Hitler,’ Kanye West tells Alex Jones during 3-hour ‘InfoWars’ appearance
West: "Every human being has something of value that they brought to the table. Especially Hitler.”
By Andrew Lapin
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Gage Skidmore courtesy of flickr.com.)
December 1, 2022, 11:42 am
Trump’s Jewish supporters must condemn and disavow him
There can be no moving beyond an incident about which he can’t pretend he wasn’t aware of the consequences.
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, speaks to reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol, Nov. 29, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
November 30, 2022, 1:29 pm
McConnell, McCarthy criticize Trump’s dinner with Holocaust denier
Anyone meeting with antisemites is "highly unlikely to ever be elected president," McConnell said.
By Ron Kampeas
Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the Munich Security Conference, 2017 (Photo from public domain)
November 30, 2022, 1:20 pm
Netanyahu on Trump’s dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes: ‘He shouldn’t do that’
In his interview with Bari Weiss, Netanyahu once again made clear his appreciation of Trump as well.
By Ron Kampeas
President Donald Trump and rapper Kanye West embrace in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 11, 2018. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
November 28, 2022, 11:09 am
Trump’s dinner with a Holocaust denier draws rare criticism from some Jewish allies
"Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable." — Former Ambassador David Friedman
By Ron Kampeas
Louis Farrakhan (Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
November 16, 2022, 11:16 am
Farrakhan on Ye, Kyrie scandals: Jews never apologized for raping and killing blacks
Farrakhan: “We don't need to go see the Holocaust. We feel your pain. Because we are really human being. You don't feel ours, because to you, a thousand Blacks ain't worth the fingernail of a Jewish man."
By JNS
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