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White T-shirt swastika.

Kanye West’s SuperBowl ad directs people to purchase swastika shirt

JNS StaffPublished February 10, 2025

Rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, released an ad during the Super Bowl that directed people to his website Yeezy.com, which now only sells one item: a white T-shirt with a black swastika. The rapper filmed the 30-second advertisement on his iPhone...

Kanye West at Milk Studios for an Adidas + KANYE WEST partnership announcement on June 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

Kanye West bought a Super Bowl ad. His product? A swastika T-shirt.

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Among the star-studded Super Bowl ads that viewers saw during Sunday’s game was an awkward 30-second spot, filmed vertically on an iPhone, in which the rapper Kanye West, AKA 'Ye' talks about his new teeth and instructs the audience to go to Yeezy.com. As...

Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2025.

Thanking Elon Musk for ‘allowing me to vent,’ Kanye West quits X after antisemitic rant

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Two days after drawing attention for a string of antisemitic posts, the rapper and artist Ye says he has signed off X. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, announced late Sunday that he was quitting the platform, owned by Elon Musk. Musk invited the artist...

Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)

Kanye embarks on a new antisemitic spree on X, saying, ‘I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments’

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 7, 2025

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, flooded the social network X with antisemitic comments early Friday morning, in a repeat of the spree that cost him his fashion deals and public esteem two years ago. In dozens of tweets to his 32 million...

Illinois students, STL Jewish community forge ties, understanding through Holocaust drama

Illinois students, STL Jewish community forge ties, understanding through Holocaust drama

BY ELLEN FUTTERMAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEFPublished February 4, 2025

Ashley Melton knew choosing the play was a bold decision. After years of directing comedies at Edwardsville High School (EHS), she felt it was time to offer her drama club a different experience, one that would challenge them with a true dramatic work.  What...

On the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel, USC students walk out of class and march around their campus in support of Palestinians and the divest movement on Monday, October 7, 2024 in Los Angeles. President Trump's executive order on Jan. 29, 2025, suggests that foreign-born protesters who express support for terrorism be deported. (Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Jewish groups offer mixed reactions to Trump’s executive order on antisemitism

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished January 30, 2025

Jewish groups are offering mixed reactions to President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on antisemitism that suggests that foreign-born anti-Israel student protesters could be deported. Some say the order is taking advantage of Jewish fear...

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks before prominent Jewish donors at an event titled "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America" at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., Sept. 19, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump antisemitism executive order invokes anti-KKK law, welcomed by ADL

JNS StaffPublished January 29, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Wednesday that he said both reinstates an order combating Jew-hatred from his prior term, which the Biden administration “effectively nullified,” and “directs additional measures to...

Elon Musk is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, Germany, Jan. 25, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

Germans have ‘too much focus on guilt,’ Elon Musk says. Yad Vashem chairman responds

JNS Staff,Published January 25, 2025

Elon Musk praised the right-wing Alternative for Germany party and suggested there’s “too much focus on past guilt” of Germans, during an address he gave on Saturday using a remote video stream at an AfD gathering in Halle. “I’m very excited...

Elon Musk's gesture during an Inauguration Day rally ignited debate over whether he intended to deliver what looked like a Nazi salute, Jan. 20, 2025. (Screenshot)

Elon Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished January 23, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to the defense of Elon Musk, days after the billionaire and prominent Trump ally was accused of delivering Nazi salutes at a presidential inauguration rally. One hour later, the world’s richest man...

Elon Musk's gesture during an Inauguration Day rally ignited debate over whether he intended to deliver what looked like a Nazi salute, Jan. 20, 2025. (Screenshot)

How did the ADL conclude that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute? It isn’t saying.

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished January 21, 2025

(JTA) — Hours after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, many Jewish groups sounded the alarm when Elon Musk appeared to twice deliver a Nazi salute at the Presidential Parade. But the Jewish group most famous for fighting antisemitism had a...

Dem. Rep. Jerry Nadler accuses Elon Musk of Hitler salute. Hugh Hewitt says he didn't

Dem. Rep. Jerry Nadler accuses Elon Musk of Hitler salute. Hugh Hewitt says he didn’t

JNS StaffPublished January 20, 2025

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) accused the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk of performing a Nazi salute during a celebration honoring U.S. President Donald Trump at the Capitol One Arena in Washington. RELATED: Elon Musk’s straight-armed gesture at inauguration...

Elon Musk's gesture during an Inauguration Day rally ignited debate over whether he intended to deliver what looked like a Nazi salute, Jan. 20, 2025. (Screenshot)

Elon Musk’s straight-armed gesture at inauguration event ignites comparisons to Nazi salute

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished January 20, 2025

When Elon Musk gave his own victory speech following Donald Trump’s inauguration, it was something he did — rather than something he said — which ignited the biggest reaction. The billionaire, who was Trump’s top donor during the 2024 election,...

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