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Kanye West Accuses Jews of Conspiring Against Him, Admits He ‘Was Drinking’ When He Wrote 2022 Antisemitic Tweet
Candace Owens and Kanye West in a video interview that Owens shared on YouTube on Aug. 7, 2024. Photo: Screenshot
In an interview with far-right political commentator Candace Owens that was published on Wednesday, rapper Kanye West admitted that he was under the influence when he wrote his notoriously antisemitic tweet in 2022 about wanting to physically harm Jews.
In the same interview, the “Heartbreak” rapper, 47, further made numerous claims against his “Jewish doctor,” “Jewish trainer,” and the “Jewish media” conspiring to hospitalize him in 2022 when he was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center for exhaustion.
Owens premiered on her YouTube channel this week an interview she did with West, who now legally goes by the name Ye, for her podcast “Candace” that took place on Oct. 17, 2022. During their conversation, Ye said a “Jewish doctor” diagnosed him with bipolar disorder “and the information was put out there by a Jewish Hollywood trainer to the Jewish media.” He also said his “Jewish trainer” saw him reading the Bible, “put [me] in hospital, and then put it in the press.” He later accused “Jewish media” of “controlling the Black voice” and said “Jewish media – I have their attention. They love me. They always love me.”
Earlier in October 2022, West tweeted about wanting to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” referring to the US military’s DEFCON system for rating how alert the armed forces should be at a given moment in the face of a threat. “I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” West wrote in the since-deleted post. “The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic [sic] because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
As a result of the tweet, which the platform deleted, West’s account was temporarily locked, and he lost a number of brand partnerships including Adidas, which ended its lucrative partnership with West’s Yeezy line of footwear. Not long after West praised Hitler in an interview with the far-right talk show host Alex Jones and promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories and stereotypes during an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“I definitely was drinking when I put up the DEFCON tweet,” the rapper said in the newly-shared 2022 interview with Owens. “You wanna know what alcohol I had inside me? Hennessy. It turns us gray. The demons [come out].” When Owens asked him why he didn’t admit that he was intoxicated when he received backlash for the tweet, West said he didn’t want to “discredit” what he wrote because he still considered the comments to be fact and his “truth.”
He added, “How can I hate Jews if I consider myself to be Jew?”
Numerous times during his interview with Owens, West reiterated his previous claims that “Black people are actually Jew[s].” He repeatedly referred to Black people, including himself, as “darker Jews” and told Owens, “if people can be transgender, why can’t they be transrace?”
At one point during the interview, West attempted to further explain his intent behind the “death con 3” tweet. He told Owens: “Everyone’s like, ‘Why are you calling [Jews] out specifically?’ When I said ‘death con 3,’ I didn’t get an opportunity to say what that meant. But it meant — I’m going to call out all these things that have been done to me specifically by Jewish people, that so happen to be businessman or businesswomen. But, still, it was done by Jewish people to me — to the darker Jew.”
“The reason I said it like that was just to say, ‘I know you guys are going to call this anti-semite [sic].’ Now, I’m not afraid of that title. I’m going to lean into that title. So call me whatever you want,” he added. He also said, “Jewish businessman are the ones who have done the things to me to hurt me and my friends.”
West repeatedly brought up Jewish people throughout the interview. At one point, while trying to discuss the high abortion rates in the Black community, he told Owens: “I think the Jewish people will always tell you about the drama and the Holocaust. Our Holocaust museum is Planned Parenthood. We’re still in the Holocaust. Six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust. Over 20 million darker Jews, Black people, have been aborted.”
He then claimed that “probably 80 percent but over 50 percent of the media is run by Jewish executives and they allow all of this abortion-driven content … and it affects the darker Jew, the Black people, more than any other race.”
He also asserted that “what Jewish people love best out of me is [to] make music and make people really happy.”
On Thursday, Owens posted about her 2022 interview with West on social media. “The threatening and controlling of the black voice when we ordain to speak out against people that are abusing us across various industries needs to stop,” Owens wrote in a post on X/Twitter. “I will not be bullied into Zionist talking points.”
West is currently facing a number of lawsuits for alleged antisemitic and discriminatory behavior, which include comparing himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and creating a hostile work environment.
Meanwhile, Owens in recent weeks has spent a curious amount of time focusing on Jews and Israel. Last week, she claimed on her show that the Star of David originated from an evil pagan deity and has only become associated with Judaism within the past few hundred years. In June, she argued that the US “is being held hostage by Israel” and suggested that Zionists were behind the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy. Weeks later, Owens promoted a series of talking points downplaying the atrocities of the Holocaust and said experiments by Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele performed on Jews during World War II sounded “like bizarre propaganda.”
Two weeks before Owens recorded the 2022 interview with West, the two of them stirred controversy when they were photographed at West’s fashion show in Paris wearing shirts that had the message “White Lives Matter.”
The 2022 interview was filmed the same day West was a guest on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation show, during which the rapper claimed a “Jewish underground media mafia” was controlling musicians. “There’s so many Black musicians signed to Jewish record labels and those Jewish record labels take ownership … of the culture itself,” he told Cuomo on air. “It’s like a modern-day slavery, and I’m calling it out.”
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‘Token Ethnic President’: Pro-Hamas Crowd Launches Racist Verbal Assault on Black Americans Over Harris Support
Anti-Zionist TikTok user calls African Americans “disgusting” for supporting Kamala Harris. Photo: Screenshot
Anti-Zionist activists recently launched a barrage of racist attacks against African Americans on social media, triggering an exchange of insults as well as arguments over the Arab world’s role in enslaving Black Africans.
“Black people also wear a uniform and get on a plane and come to our countries and kill us!” one influencer said in a compilation of TikTok posts shared by pro-Israel activist Hen Mazzig. “You vote the same f—king melanated f—king people to government that sign papers to kill us. I don’t want to hear it anymore!”
“Keep Palestinians names out of your f—king mouths when you’re trying to defend your decision for voting for Kamala,” another said, referring to Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, who is Black.
TikTok user “Dan1ahan” charged that Black Americans “switched up 180 on Palestinians and people who are Palestinian activists the second we have a Black woman running for office,” describing the alleged betrayal as “disgusting.” Touching on the upcoming US presidential election, one Arab woman said all Black people want is a “token ethnic president” in office.
Black TikTok influencers descended on the platform in droves to denounce the comments, with several announcing that they intended not only to remove Gaza-related content from their profiles but also to cease engaging in anti-Zionist activity entirely. The conversation escalated in subsequent posts, touching on the continuance of Black slavery in the Arab world and what young woman called “voracious racism” against African Americans.
“What’s even crazier is that earlier people were like, oh these are bots, no — this is how people really feel. And she made a video that’s a real human being that feels exactly that way,” an African American woman said. “These are people who feel like they are entitled to the support of Black people no matter what, that they get to push us around and tell us who the hell we get to vote for if we support them … They’ve lost their minds.”
An African American male said, “Why don’t we talk about the Arab slave trade? And keep in mind that the Arabs have enslaved more Black people than the Europeans combined.” Another African American woman accused Arabs of not denouncing slavery in Antebellum America.
“We spend our money with you,” she said. “We stand in solidarity with you, and you keep asking for more, and more, and more, and it’s never enough.”
This is not the first time that anti-Zionists have hurled racist abuse and expletives at Black Americans while denigrating their accomplishments and status as full citizens of the United States.
In April, an anti-Zionist student group at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC staged an unprecedented protest of a talk by US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the university’s Elliot School of International Affairs.
“Zionist imperial puppet,” “imperial and blackface,” and “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” were among the chants yelled by members of the Student Coalition for Palestine (GWSCP) outside the building — a clamoring which could be heard throughout the Elliot School. Thomas-Greenfield was at GWU to speak at an event held to encourage Black youth to pursue careers in foreign affairs. GWSCP protested her appearance because she had vetoed multiple UN Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, where Israel has been waging a military campaign against Hamas following the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians.
In a pamphlet distributed to everyone who showed up to the event, the students accused Greenfield of being a “puppet,” alluding to the fact that she is a Black woman holding a distinguished presidential appointment. GWSCP seemed to suggest that the color of Greenfield’s skin excluded the possibility that she is an agent of her own destiny.
“For as long as we have been here, we have resisted these systems of oppression, but the United States of Amerikkka [sic] has always used Black bodies as puppets to carry out repression and dissent,” the pamphlet said. It also compared Greenfield to Black enslaved persons who had been assigned, against their will, to work as overseers of other enslaved persons on cotton plantations.
Later, according to GWU’s official student newspaper, the group encircled Dean of Student Affairs Colette Coleman, an African American woman, outside the building. One member of the group began “clapping in her face” while others screamed that she should resign.
That same month, at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, anti-Zionists occupying an administrative building verbally abused a Black officer, whom they accused of betraying his racial identity. “Shame on you!” they shouted at him. Someone else said, “You are Black in America, and you’re not standing with the marginalized people of the world. What does that make you?”
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Trump Vows to Deport Hamas Supporters During ‘Stop Antisemitism’ Event, Unveils New Initiative for Jewish Voters
Republican presidential candidate and former US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, April 2, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook
Former US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign supporters of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas if he’s re-elected to the White House during an event centered on anti-Jewish hate on Thursday.
While speaking at the “Stop Antisemitism” event in New Jersey, the Republican presidential nominee vowed to remove pro-Hamas activists from the United States.
“We will deport the foreign jihad sympathizers, and we will deport them very quickly. And Hamas supporters will be gone,” Trump said. “If you hate America, if you want to eliminate Israel, then we don’t want you in our country. We really don’t want you in our country.”
Trump also promised to ban refugees from Hamas-ruled Gaza, arguing that they would pose a terror threat to the US. He also vowed to arrest anti-Israel agitators who engage in vandalism or violent acts.
“I will ban refugee settlements from terror-infested areas like the Gaza Strip, and we will arrest the pro-Hamas thugs who vandalize federal property and make life very difficult in this country for a lot of people,” Trump continued.
Republican lawmakers have raised alarm bells at the prospect of resettling refugees from Gaza, the Palestinian enclave bordering Israel to the south. Last month, six Republican senators sent a letter to US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, requesting an increase of security measures along the northern border in response to Canada accepting an influx of refugees from Gaza. The senators wrote that they were “deeply concerned” that Gazan refugees could sneak into the United States.
In the months following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people throughout southern Israel, Republicans have scrambled to secure more support from Jewish voters, sensing growing tensions between Democrats and the traditionally-liberal voting bloc.
In an attempt to lure more Jewish voters, Trump’s campaign announced the launch of “Jewish Voices for Trump” this week. The Republican nominee’s campaign described the initiative as “a coalition of thought leaders, business trailblazers, former administration officials, authors, influencers, and those within the Jewish community.”
“While the world has fallen into chaos with [US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala] Harris, President Trump’s Abraham Accords chartered new territory in regional stability, not just for Israel, but for the world. With President Trump we knew we had a White House that stood with Israel, and a president who defended the Jewish people,” the group’s mission statement read.
Though Democrats largely voiced support for Israel’s defensive military operations against Hamas in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, high-profile liberal politicians have gradually expressed more criticism against the Jewish state. Prominent Democratic lawmakers such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) suggested that Israel’s war in Gaza could be tantamount to a “genocide.” A group of 30 House Democrats sent a letter to US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging them to “reconsider” arms shipments to Israel and arguing that the Jewish state has not taken proper precautions to preserve civilian life while targeting Hamas.
Recent polling indicates that Jewish voters may be shifting to Trump in record-breaking numbers, suggesting that the former president’s overtures could be working. Jewish voters prefer Harris over Trump by a margin of 52.7 percent to 45.9 percent, according to the survey conducted by pollster Richard Baris.
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