Rapper posts message in Hebrew to social media, saying he is ‘committed to making amends and promoting unity’
Kanye West has apologised to “the Jewish community” for a series of antisemitic remarks he made in 2022.
In a statement posted in Hebrew on his Instagram account, where he has 18.2m followers, he wrote (as translated by Google): “I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community … It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused. I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.”
West, also known as Ye, was widely condemned after writing on X in October 2022 that he was “going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE … You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.” He posted a screenshot of a conversation with the rapper Diddy, in which West wrote: “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.”
The comments prompted Adidas to cut ties with West and end its lucrative Yeezy footwear partnership, with the company calling his comments “unacceptable, hateful and dangerous”. (Adidas’s chief executive Bjørn Gulden later said: “I don’t think he meant what he said and I don’t think he’s a bad person – it just came across that way.”) Gap, which also partnered with West and was already winding up their collaboration, stopped stocking West-affiliated products.
As a member of said community, go fuck yourself. Way too little, way too late… and you don’t fucking know Hebrew so that pandering bullshit doesn’t help.
It was not your intention to hurt and demean Jews when you said the things you said about Jews? Fuck you.
Exactly, this dickhead was on Rogan, Tucker, Fuentes, and any other right wingers show who would have them, and hanging out with Tucker and Fuentes is literally hanging out with the most Nazi/Russian propagandist and the most widely known Nazi talking head, well aside from Elon.
Ye has helped foster antisemitism in the black community at an alarming rate while also being the absolute worst time to do so, for both black Americans and Jewish Americans, whom up to this point in American civil rights history have been historically allies.
It’s too late for Ye to realize he’s the pawn of racists and antisemites, the damage is done thanks to his foolish mentally ill ass.
Also plenty of Jews don’t know Hebrew so literally unreadable to a lot of them.
Just start taking your fucking meds, dipshit.
Frankly, writing this in Hebrew is a bit shitty. Most Jews in the world don’t live in Israel, and while Jews outside of Israel might learn to read Hebrew when they’re young, most can’t actually understand its modern spoken version. So while I can see how someone might think releasing an apology in Hebrew might show solidarity with the Jews, it kind of does the opposite, at least for me.
Actions speak louder than words in a foreign language.
Forgiveness is earned. Let’s see how he tries to.
A few weeks from now, he’ll slip off his meds and say that the Jewish conspiracy made him apologize and then throw out some new outlandish idea like a Kanye Car.
From two weeks ago. I don’t think he got to the 2023 apology yet.
The guys a complete lunatic, but 1-2 good songs is some crazy shit right there.
Dudes music is certified. It’s fine that someone can be talented and also an asshole.
First two albums were bangers and although I’d drifted away by the time My Dark Twisted Fantasy came out, it’s gone down as one of the greatest works in that scene.
Eh he’s always seemed over-hyped and generic as shit, but zoomers seem to eat it up as the goat or whatever so idk.
😭 The College Dropout album and Graduation album was my youth.
This is painful for me
Pathetic. Given the seriousness of what he said, and continues to say even this month, no one with a working brain could possibly believe anything in this sad non-attempt at an apology message. It doesn’t resolve anything, it doesn’t make clear that he understands what was wrong with what he said, it doesn’t specify what he is going to do differently going forward, and it isn’t even clear that it is truly a message from him or genuine.
