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Kanye West Wears Swastika Shirt in X Video, Hints at New ‘Swasticoin’ and Wearing Nazi Symbol at Next Super Bowl
Kanye West walking on the red carpet during the 67th Grammy Awards held at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA on February 2, 2025. Photo: Elyse Jankowski/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, wore a swastika shirt in a video he posted on his X account over the weekend, and it closely resembled the shirt with the Nazi symbol he recently sold on his website.
In the clip, which has since been deleted, the 47-year-old “Runaway” singer wore a black long sleeve shirt that was emblazoned on front with a large white swastika, the symbol of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party during World War II that is still used today by extremists.
The Yeezy founder wore the offensive shirt while responding to an accusation made by Barstool Sports founder and owner Dave Portnoy, who claimed Ye’s meme coin is a scam. On Saturday, Portnoy – who is famous for his Barstool pizza review videos – called Ye the “worst human alive” in a post on X while claiming the rapper’s meme coin is fake.
“Rumor is Kanye (worst human alive) may be launching a scam meme coin and morons will buy it,” wrote Portnoy, who is Jewish. “Snipers will get rich. Normal people will get crushed. People will cry. I fear I was the only honest man to ever exist in celeb coins.”
A meme coin is a type of cryptocurrency that is often inspired by internet memes or other trends.
Responding to Portnoy’s claims, the “Flashing Lights” rapper said in a now-deleted video, while wearing the swastika shirt: “Dave Portnoy, I don’t know you. I saw you was tweeting… I have no idea who you are, we’ve gone back and forth joking. But when you start telling people that my coin is not real and you try to play with my money, that is the last time that we’ll be talking online.”
“Never mention money,” West wrote in the caption of his video.
Portnoy re-posted the clip on this X account and continued to attack Ye. “I thought Adam Sandler cured him of being a Nazi,” he wrote.
Sandler wrote and performed a song celebrating 50 years of “Saturday Night Live” earlier this month, and the lyrics included a mention of the Jewish actor discovering 50 years later that his favorite musician – Ye – is antisemitic. Portnoy also said of Ye, “I f–king hate this guy so much.”
On Friday, Ye took to X to explain his affinity for the swastika symbol. “The swastika to shows n—as that we don’t have to be afraid of white people,” he wrote in the since-deleted message. “When I grew up in Chicago there were gang bangers who were scared to go downtown where the white people were.” The rapper – who has four children with his ex-wife Kim Kardashian – also talked on X about possibly launching a new meme coin called “Swasticoin.”
Ye said in a separate, and now-deleted, post on Thursday that he will wear his swastika shirt at next year’s Super Bowl. “Next year I’m performing at the superbowl wearing my wittle T shirt,” he wrote. “People with money bought my wittle t shirt.”
He also posted a photo of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. In the picture of the infamous punk rock couple, Vicious is wearing a shirt that features a swastika in the center. Spungen was murdered in 1978 and Vicious was arrested for her murder, but before his case when to trial, he died of a heroin overdose in 1979. In the photo’s caption, Ye posted an emoji of a goat, which is most likely a nod to the acronym GOAT (greatest of all time). The photo has since been taken down.
Since the early morning of Feb. 7, Ye has continued to make a series of antisemitic and offensive comments on X, all of which he deleted shortly after posting. He talked about disliking Jews, praised Hitler, and called himself a Nazi and a racist – comments which he said he is “never apologizing” for. He also sold on Yeezy.com a t-shirt featuring a swastika and bought a commercial that aired during Super Bowl LIX this month to direct viewers to his Yeezy website to purchase the item. The website was then shut down by Shopify, the e-commerce platform that the Yeezy website uses to sell its products. Yeezy.com is back online but only features a message on the home page that says “Yeezy stores coming soon.”
Ye said on X this month he would never “trust or work with Jewish people” again, he doesn’t “like or trust any Jewish person,” “I love Hitler”, and “Me loving Hitler is old news.” He insisted that he was “completely sober” while writing the series of antisemitic posts and said, “This is how I really feel how I really felt and how I will always feel.”
“Some of my best friends are Jewish, and I don’t trust any of them,” Ye added. In some of his other deleted comments this month, the rapper claimed, “I stand on everything I said And nobody finna ever make me apologize again.” He additionally shared a screenshot of a search he did on Google that read “in 2025 how do you apply to become a Nazi.”
More recently, Ye contradicted some of his previous statements. On Feb. 19, he wrote on X, “after further reflection I’ve come to the realization that I’m not a Nazi” and wrote on Feb. 21 that he does like Jewish people “very much.”
Portnoy called Ye “one of the absolute greatest pieces of s–t of all time” while speaking to the Daily Mail shortly after the rapper’s Feb. 7 antisemitic rant on X.
“I am Jewish and proud of it, so anyone who is pro-Hitler and says he is a Nazi, I have no room for in my life,” he said. “I think the people who prop him up, surround him and say he’s not a jerk — if he’s sick, put him in a hospital. I have no room for people like Kanye in my world. Kanye is one of the worst humans of all time … Kanye may be sick. In which case, get him his meds and put him in a mental institution.”
Ye also went on an antisemitic rant on X in 2022. He later apologized for his remarks and said he “definitely was drinking” when he made the comments.
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Hamas Says No Interim Hostage Deal Possible Without Work Toward Permanent Ceasefire
Explosions send smoke into the air in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, July 17, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen
The spokesperson for Hamas’s armed wing said on Friday that while the Palestinian terrorist group favors reaching an interim truce in the Gaza war, if such an agreement is not reached in current negotiations it could revert to insisting on a full package deal to end the conflict.
Hamas has previously offered to release all the hostages held in Gaza and conclude a permanent ceasefire agreement, and Israel has refused, Abu Ubaida added in a televised speech.
Arab mediators Qatar and Egypt, backed by the United States, have hosted more than 10 days of talks on a US-backed proposal for a 60-day truce in the war.
Israeli officials were not immediately available for comment on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on a call he had with Pope Leo on Friday that Israel‘s efforts to secure a hostage release deal and 60-day ceasefire “have so far not been reciprocated by Hamas.”
As part of the potential deal, 10 hostages held in Gaza would be returned along with the bodies of 18 others, spread out over 60 days. In exchange, Israel would release a number of detained Palestinians.
“If the enemy remains obstinate and evades this round as it has done every time before, we cannot guarantee a return to partial deals or the proposal of the 10 captives,” said Abu Ubaida.
Disputes remain over maps of Israeli army withdrawals, aid delivery mechanisms into Gaza, and guarantees that any eventual truce would lead to ending the war, said two Hamas officials who spoke to Reuters on Friday.
The officials said the talks have not reached a breakthrough on the issues under discussion.
Hamas says any agreement must lead to ending the war, while Netanyahu says the war will only end once Hamas is disarmed and its leaders expelled from Gaza.
Almost 1,650 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed as a result of the conflict, including 1,200 killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, according to Israeli tallies. Over 250 hostages were kidnapped during Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught.
Israel responded with an ongoing military campaign aimed at freeing the hostages and dismantling Hamas’s military and governing capabilities in neighboring Gaza.
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Iran Marks 31st Anniversary of AMIA Bombing by Slamming Argentina’s ‘Baseless’ Accusations, Blaming Israel
People hold images of the victims of the 1994 bombing attack on the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) community center, marking the 30th anniversary of the attack, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Irina Dambrauskas
Iran on Friday marked the 31st anniversary of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires by slamming Argentina for what it called “baseless” accusations over Tehran’s alleged role in the terrorist attack and accusing Israel of politicizing the atrocity to influence the investigation and judicial process.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on the anniversary of Argentina’s deadliest terrorist attack, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 300.
“While completely rejecting the accusations against Iranian citizens, the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns attempts by certain Argentine factions to pressure the judiciary into issuing baseless charges and politically motivated rulings,” the statement read.
“Reaffirming that the charges against its citizens are unfounded, the Islamic Republic of Iran insists on restoring their reputation and calls for an end to this staged legal proceeding,” it continued.
Last month, a federal judge in Argentina ordered the trial in absentia of 10 Iranian and Lebanese nationals suspected of orchestrating the attack in Buenos Aires.
The ten suspects set to stand trial include former Iranian and Lebanese ministers and diplomats, all of whom are subject to international arrest warrants issued by Argentina for their alleged roles in the terrorist attack.
In its statement on Friday, Iran also accused Israel of influencing the investigation to advance a political campaign against the Islamist regime in Tehran, claiming the case has been used to serve Israeli interests and hinder efforts to uncover the truth.
“From the outset, elements and entities linked to the Zionist regime [Israel] exploited this suspicious explosion, pushing the investigation down a false and misleading path, among whose consequences was to disrupt the long‑standing relations between the people of Iran and Argentina,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
“Clear, undeniable evidence now shows the Zionist regime and its affiliates exerting influence on the Argentine judiciary to frame Iranian nationals,” the statement continued.
In April, lead prosecutor Sebastián Basso — who took over the case after the 2015 murder of his predecessor, Alberto Nisman — requested that federal Judge Daniel Rafecas issue national and international arrest warrants for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over his alleged involvement in the attack.
Since 2006, Argentine authorities have sought the arrest of eight Iranians — including former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who died in 2017 — yet more than three decades after the deadly bombing, all suspects remain still at large.
In a post on X, the Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), the country’s Jewish umbrella organization, released a statement commemorating the 31st anniversary of the bombing.
“It was a brutal attack on Argentina, its democracy, and its rule of law,” the group said. “At DAIA, we continue to demand truth and justice — because impunity is painful, and memory is a commitment to both the present and the future.”
31 años del atentado a la AMIA – DAIA. 31 años sin justicia.
El 18 de julio de 1994, un atentado terrorista dejó 85 personas muertas y más de 300 heridas. Fue un ataque brutal contra la Argentina, su democracia y su Estado de derecho.
Desde la DAIA, seguimos exigiendo verdad y… pic.twitter.com/kV2ReGNTIk
— DAIA (@DAIAArgentina) July 18, 2025
Despite Argentina’s longstanding belief that Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah terrorist group carried out the devastating attack at Iran’s request, the 1994 bombing has never been claimed or officially solved.
Meanwhile, Tehran has consistently denied any involvement and refused to arrest or extradite any suspects.
To this day, the decades-long investigation into the terrorist attack has been plagued by allegations of witness tampering, evidence manipulation, cover-ups, and annulled trials.
In 2006, former prosecutor Nisman formally charged Iran for orchestrating the attack and Hezbollah for carrying it out.
Nine years later, he accused former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — currently under house arrest on corruption charges — of attempting to cover up the crime and block efforts to extradite the suspects behind the AMIA atrocity in return for Iranian oil.
Nisman was killed later that year, and to this day, both his case and murder remain unresolved and under ongoing investigation.
The alleged cover-up was reportedly formalized through the memorandum of understanding signed in 2013 between Kirchner’s government and Iranian authorities, with the stated goal of cooperating to investigate the AMIA bombing.
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Jordan Reveals Muslim Brotherhood Operating Vast Illegal Funding Network Tied to Gaza Donations, Political Campaigns
Murad Adailah, the head of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, attends an interview with Reuters in Amman, Jordan, Sept. 7, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak
The Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements, has been implicated in a wide-ranging network of illegal financial activities in Jordan and abroad, according to a new investigative report.
Investigations conducted by Jordanian authorities — along with evidence gathered from seized materials — revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood raised tens of millions of Jordanian dinars through various illegal activities, the Jordan news agency (Petra) reported this week.
With operations intensifying over the past eight years, the report showed that the group’s complex financial network was funded through various sources, including illegal donations, profits from investments in Jordan and abroad, and monthly fees paid by members inside and outside the country.
The report also indicated that the Muslim Brotherhood has taken advantage of the war in Gaza to raise donations illegally.
Out of all donations meant for Gaza, the group provided no information on where the funds came from, how much was collected, or how they were distributed, and failed to work with any international or relief organizations to manage the transfers properly.
Rather, the investigations revealed that the Islamist network used illicit financial mechanisms to transfer funds abroad.
According to Jordanian authorities, the group gathered more than JD 30 million (around $42 million) over recent years.
With funds transferred to several Arab, regional, and foreign countries, part of the money was allegedly used to finance domestic political campaigns in 2024, as well as illegal activities and cells.
In April, Jordan outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets after members of the Islamist movement were found to be linked to a sabotage plot.
The movement’s political arm in Jordan, the Islamic Action Front, became the largest political grouping in parliament after elections last September, although most seats are still held by supporters of the government.
Opponents of the group, which is banned in most Arab countries, label it a terrorist organization. However, the movement claims it renounced violence decades ago and now promotes its Islamist agenda through peaceful means.
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