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Antisemitism

Kanye West suspended again from Twitter after posting swastika

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished December 2, 2022

(JTA) — Two weeks after returning from a suspension over his tweets threatening Jews, Kanye West has been booted from Twitter again — this time after posting a picture of a swastika. West, the rapper and designer who now goes by Ye, tweeted the...

‘I like Hitler,’ Kanye West repeatedly tells Alex Jones on ‘InfoWars’

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished December 1, 2022

(JTA) – The far-right streaming host Alex Jones tried to throw his guest Kanye West a line Thursday after weeks of the rapper’s public antisemitic behavior. “You’re not Hitler. You’re not a Nazi,” Jones prodded West, who now goes by Ye,...

Amazon will not pull antisemitic movie promoted by Kyrie Irving, says Jewish CEO

Andrew Lapin, JTAPublished December 1, 2022

(JTA) – Bucking weeks of public pressure from Jewish groups, celebrities and the Brooklyn Nets, Amazon will not stop selling an antisemitic documentary on its service that was promoted by NBA star Kyrie Irving. The company’s CEO Andy Jassy, who...

From McConnell to McCarthy, Republican leaders criticize Trump’s dinner with Holocaust denier

BY RON KAMPEAS, JTAPublished November 29, 2022

(JTA) — A week after former President Donald Trump dined with two men who are known for their outspoken antisemitism, Republican leaders are beginning to speak out — though some are sparing Trump direct criticism. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the...

Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, Oct. 21, 2022. (Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin via Getty)

Flanked by white nationalists, Kanye West claims in podcast that Jews want to ‘lock me up’

By Jacob Kornbluh, The ForwardPublished November 29, 2022

Rapper Kanye West complained that former President Donald Trump was being controlled by Jews and invoked the Holocaust in a podcast interview Monday evening with the two white nationalists he brought to a dinner with Trump last week, Milo Yiannopoulos...

Trump’s former antisemitism czar calls Trump out for meeting with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes

RON KAMPEAS, JTAPublished November 28, 2022

WASHINGTON (JTA) — When he was president, Donald Trump hired Elan Carr as his State Department’s antisemitism monitor. Two years after they both left office, Carr is calling out his former boss for meeting with prominent figures who have both promoted...

Opinion: Trump’s Jewish supporters must condemn and disavow him

By Jonathan S. Tobin, Jewish News ServicePublished November 28, 2022

(JNS) If pro-Israel Republicans think former President Donald Trump will apologize or make amends in any way for choosing to have a public dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort home with two notorious antisemites, they haven’t been paying attention to how...

Jewish Australian Football League draftee faces barrage of online antisemitism

Published November 28, 2022

(JTA) — Australian-Jewish teenager Harry Sheezel made headlines Monday for getting drafted into the Australian Football League and for facing a barrage of online antisemitism in the wake of his selection. The 18-year-old medium forward was picked third...

Trump’s dinner with a Holocaust denier draws rare criticism from some of his Jewish allies

BY RON KAMPEAS, JTAPublished November 27, 2022

(JTA) — Two weeks after feting Donald Trump as America’s most pro-Israel president ever, the Zionist Organization of America had harsh words for the man who aspires to return to the White House. “ZOA deplores the fact that President Trump had...

Kanye says Trump “really impressed” with prominent antisemite Nick Fuentes after dinner at Mar-a-Lago

ASAF ELIA-SHALEV, JTAPublished November 26, 2022

(JTA) — Former President Donald Trump hosted white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West, two figures who have made repeated antisemitic statements, at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night, Axios reported.   After the report was published,...

Who is Nick Fuentes?

Who is Nick Fuentes?

By Mira Fox, The ForwardPublished November 26, 2022

Kanye West was spotted on Tuesday in Florida, en route to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. But the notable story from the visit isn’t that West asked the former president to be his running mate, which is the sort of move we’ve learned to expect...

Jewish security group credited with averting NY attack says an antisemitic murder in Arizona could have been prevented

Ron Kampeas, JTAPublished November 23, 2022

(JTA) — A top Jewish community security consultant accused the University of Arizona of ignoring antisemitism as a warning sign in a case that culminated in the shooting death of a professor. “Professor Thomas Meixner lost his life because antisemitism...

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