Kanye west and jews

Ye's upcoming concerts in Poland, Switzerland canceled after antisemitic remarks

Ye's upcoming concerts in Poland and Switzerland have been canceled amid mounting backlash over his past antisemitic remarks, disrupting his international tour plans.

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Rapper Kanye West performs onstage during the "Vultures 1" playback concert during Rolling Loud 2024 at Hollywood Park Grounds on March 14, 2024 in Inglewood, California.
US rapper and producer Kanye West gestures upon arriving at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on July 11, 2025.

Sponsors back out of London festival that invited Ye to headline despite record of antisemitism

Ye’s antisemitism controversies erupted in October 2022, when the rapper vowed to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
KANYE WEST attends the 2022 Super Bowl in Inglewood, California. The problem is that this self-proclaimed, proud Nazi is also an award-winning, gifted musician who has sold over 140 million copies of his records in the past two decades and become a billionaire, says the writer.

Adidas defeats appeal of lawsuit over imploded Kanye partnership

The company's sales in North America fell 2% in 2024, "solely due to significantly lower Yeezy sales," Adidas said in March.

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Kanye West attends the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

Kanye West meets Rabbi Pinto to make amends for past antisemitic remarks

'It's a big deal for me as a man to come and take accountability for all the things that I've said, and I really just appreciate you embracing me with open arms.'

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Kanye West's antisemitism is an age-old hatred

We cannot combat antisemitism unless we draw a vital connection between it and the guise it often wears – anti-Zionism.

DECEMBER 5, 2022ByWILLIAM C. DAROFF
KANYE WEST has more followers on social media platforms than there are Jews in the entire world.

Joe Biden hits out at Kanye West's Holocaust denial, pro-Hitler comments

West tweeted out a photo of a star of David encasing a swastika late Thursday night to promote his 2024 presidential campaign.

DECEMBER 2, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rapper Kanye West makes a point as he holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston, South Carolina, US July 19, 2020.

Rapper Kanye West no longer plans to buy far-right social media platform Parler

Parlement Technologies and Ye had announced plans for the deal in October. At the time the company said it expected the deal to close during the fourth quarter of 2022.

DECEMBER 1, 2022ByREUTERS
Kanye West directs people during his Yeezy Season 3 Collection presentation and listening party during New York Fashion Week

Kanye West storms out of interview after challenge on Jewish media claim

"We can see that Rahm Emanuel was right next to Obama and then Jared Kushner was right next to Trump," said Ye.

NOVEMBER 29, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rapper Kanye West smiles during a meeting with then-US President Donald Trump to discuss criminal justice reform at the White House in Washington, US, October 11, 2018.

29% say antisemitism acceptable in workplace, new survey finds

Concerns over the rise of antisemitism in the United States led to heated conversations about the issue.

NOVEMBER 25, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A RECENT Pew study found that more than 50% of employees don’t want to return to office life.

Adidas launches probe into misconduct allegations against Kanye West

Adidas said it initiated the probe after receiving an anonymous letter making several allegations against Kanye West.

NOVEMBER 25, 2022ByREUTERS
A pair of Yeezy shoes are seen in a Foot Locker store on the day Adidas terminated its partnership with the American rapper and designer Kanye West, now known as Ye, in Garden City, New York, US, October 25, 2022.

Trump hosts Kanye West and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago

West said in a video that Trump was caught off guard when the rapper asked him to be his Vice President, and told him he'd lose.

NOVEMBER 24, 2022ByJTA, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Supporters of the America First ideology and US President Donald Trump cheer on Nick Fuentes, a leader of the America First movement and a white nationalist, as he makes his way through the crowd for a speech during the "Stop the Steal" and "Million MAGA March" protests, November 14, 2020.

Kanye West asks to be Trump's running mate in 2024 elections

Rapper Kanye West has previously hinted at making a run for the Oval Office himself, having run in the 2020 presidential elections.

NOVEMBER 24, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rapper Kanye West smiles during a meeting with then-US President Donald Trump to discuss criminal justice reform at the White House in Washington, US, October 11, 2018.

A former Jewish extremist explains today's Israeli politics

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israeli attorney Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane after he was assassinated by an Arab gunman in a Manhattan hotel in November 1990, in Jerusalem, November 7, 2017

'Kanye was rite': Jewish cemetery vandalized with swastikas

At least 16 headstones were painted with Swastikas and another 23 were defaced at the Am Echod cemetery outside of Chicago.

NOVEMBER 16, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN, HALEY COHEN
Rapper Kanye West speaks during a meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss criminal justice reform in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, US, October 11, 2018.