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Pictures of banners  supporting Kanye West's comments about Jews went viral after members of the Goyim Defense League hate group dropped them from an overpass in Los Angeles, Oct. 22, 2022. (Screenshot from Twitter)
Posted inLocal Voice

Kanye West’s ‘Heil Hitler’ song turns hate into a hook

Morgan Blum Schneider, the director of the JFCS Holocaust Center, a program of Jewish Family
and Children’s Services. (Courtesy) by Morgan Blum Schneider May 14, 2025May 14, 2025

Teenagers hear a song on TikTok. The beat is catchy. And without realizing it, they begin to sing along — to words that glorify one of history’s most brutal perpetrators […]

Kanye West on the Timcast podcast on Nov. 28, 2022 (Screenshot/YouTube)
Posted inU.S.

Kanye West invoked in least 30 antisemitic incidents since October

by Adam Kovac and Forward February 15, 2023February 15, 2023
Chappelle on stage with a microphone
Posted inComedy

Dave Chappelle got one thing right in his infamous SNL monologue

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward November 16, 2022
(Photo/Rich Fury-VF20-Getty Images for Vanity Fair; Design/JTA-Mollie Suss)
Posted inCulture

‘How are you supposed to enjoy music by somebody that hates you?’: Jewish fans press pause on Ye’s songs

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten and JTA October 28, 2022
The Olympic torch is carried into the stadium during the opening ceremonies of the XI Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, on August 1, 1936. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inHistory

The Nazi history of Adidas, the sportswear giant that took weeks to drop Kanye West over antisemitism

by Andrew Lapin and JTA October 26, 2022
Ben Ammi Ben Israel celebrating New World Passover with his followers in Dimona, Israel, May 2013. (Photo/Andrew Esensten)
Posted inAnalysis

‘Black people are actually Jew[s]’: The historical origins of Kanye West’s inflammatory comments

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten and JTA October 12, 2022August 27, 2023

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