Kanye West apologizes in Hebrew to Jewish community for antisemitic outbursts
It's unclear what prompted the apology from West, who has been condemned for praising Hitler since an initial rant in 2022
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Ahead of the long-delayed release of his upcoming collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures, Kanye West is apologizing to the Jewish community for a dizzying number of anti-semitic rants that have drastically marred his career over the past year.
“I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any ‘unintended outburst’ caused by my words or actions,” the rapper, now known as Ye, wrote in Hebrew in an Instagram post early Tuesday morning (translation via Rolling Stone). “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 first went public with his antisemitism in a widely condemned post on Twitter/X last fall, in which he claimed he was planning to go “death con 3 [sic] on JEWISH PEOPLE.” “You guys have toyed with and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda,” he added at the time. But while the post inspired public outrage and lost Ye sponsorship after sponsorship, a bombshell report from the New York Times claimed West’s behind-the-scenes praise of Hitler dated back at least to the beginning of his partnership with Adidas, where he allegedly tried to emulate the Nazi leader’s manipulation of propaganda to boost his own product.
Since that first post, West has only doubled down. In a subsequent interview with Alex Jones, the rapper made Sandy Hook conspiracy peddler Alex Jones look like a critical thinker by bluntly stating that “every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
Even as recently as the rollout for Vultures, (allegedly) out January 12, West has advanced this ideology. A few weeks ago, the rapper went on a long rant at a live-streamed event for Vultures in which he yelled “Jesus Christ, Hitler, Ye—third party, sponsor that,” and claimed that “Zionists” control hospitals and private schools (via Rolling Stone). Additionally, the album’s lead single (also called “Vultures”) features the deeply poetic line, “How I’m antisemitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch.”
Thus far, the rapper has not publicly commented on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. It’s unclear what inspired him to attempt to make amends now.
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Except fuck this Dollar Store ass clown.
It’s unclear what inspired him to attempt to make amends now.He’s about to drop an album and someone reminded him that Jewish kids generally love Hip Hop.
i don’t think he’s lucid enough to be that cynical. he probably just watched a jonah hill movie or is trying to get a sample cleared.
Got him on some new meds? Or any at all?
Maybe the lithium has kicked in.
Yo me ‘n the lithium, we kickin’ it, boo! We kickin’ it old skool!
I kick the crap outta that lithium! Nom sayin’?
This might be the single worst comment I have ever read on here. Ffs…
This is just plain bad.
Cool, now do more racism!!!!
I’m voting for the meds, myself.
Yeah, I’m thinking he’s finally noticed a decline in his wealth.
At this point the only thing I know for sure about Kanye is that he is in DESPERATE need of mental health care.
Sure, but mental illness absolutely has nothing to do with being antisemitic, racist, sexist, Homophobic, transphobic, or any other bigotry. I’m crazy AF and I don’t hate any single group except the rich.
He sounds like he’s been having paranoid delusions for a long time now. He may not think particular groups are out to get him if he’s on antipsychotic medication.
Hey, I’m all for it, shoot him up with thorazine and haldol just to shut him up. But the dude is an antisemitic piece of shit no matter what.
Normally I’d agree, but unless we think he’s also really, really stupid, it doesn’t make sense for him to praise Hitler, considering that dude would have sent him to the gas chambers.Then again, Neo-Nazis don’t make a whole lot of sense as a whole.
No , the Nazi’s whole ethos is at odds with anything resembling normal and sane human behavior, to say nothing of decent human behavior. They have to deploy an array of tricks, obfuscations, and then violent control to secure compliance from the majority of humanity, who actually hate Nazis. It’s been a thing for years.
But it does make some people susceptible to conspiracy theories.
No. Not any more than normies are susceptible. A chump is a chump; stop trying to throw mentally ill people under the bus to explain how assholes and rubes let this world go to Nazi shit.
No. He’s needs a huge EGO DEATH experience to humble himself.
What’s important here is that he was clearly sincere about it.
LMAO. No one who is sincere puts out their apology on Xitter.
Also no one is sincere who rants about Hitler and Jewish people for years on end, then suddenly comes forward with his version of a PR apology sprinkled ever so gently with crazy dust, without warning and on social media. Just to articulate the point non-sarcastically, this is one of the least convincing celebrity apologies I’ve come across.
Yep…
I mean:
“It was not my intention to hurt or demean…”
O and what exactly was his intention then, when he rants against jews for months and plans to go “death con 3 [sic] on JEWISH PEOPLE.”.
Oh it wasn’t my intention to hurt someone…I just want them be killed, nothing else…*shrug* oopsie, my fault, but I for sure don’t mean it in some bad way…
ffs…
Extra points for Google translating it into Hebrew!
I’m not defending Kanye here but my speculation is that this was his Hitler phase. Lots of middle school boys go through it. You know, drawing swastikas in your notebook margins, meeting your first Jewish person, understanding how much it annoys your parents and other adults, beginning a WWII souvenir collection, reading Mein Kampf, etc. He was just late. I’m just saying that I doubt Kanye is legitimately a Nazi. He thinks he’s really smart because of his artistic achievements, thinks he figured something out that he thinks nobody ever has and wants to be special.
LMAO! “Xitter”! And, yes, you are correct. And, no, that wasn’t a great apology, either. I believe that an apology should not ask for forgiveness because that amounts to saying, “Sorry! But, uh, do me a favor: I want you to ease my conscience.”
Oh, who knows. I could be reading a menu from a Tel Aviv takeout shawarma joint, back to front and wrong-way-round.
I can read it but it’s beyond my comprehension after many decades of not speaking Hebrew. That said, I don’t see anything in there about lamb, salad or tahina sauce. But that first sentence? It may be a bad translation or it may just be that it’s not really an apology: “I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any ‘unintended outburst’ caused by my words or actions…” That’s kind of incomprehensible: you’re sorry that people had unintended outbursts because of your words or actions? That’s not an apology. You’re just supposed to say, “I am sorry for my words and/or actions. I know that they caused pain and I regret what I’ve done. Sorry.”
His manager or his agent or whoever wrote the whole thing and convinced him to shut the fuck off for a few weeks and to let them post this on his Instagram is clearly sincere about it.
well looks like it’s working, he got 1.4 million likes and articles and comments are talking about his apology and his new album. Free publicity baby! Can’t wait for his Oprah apology interview, will he wear a kippa and a star of david necklace?
Funny how Ye is one of the only celebrities not allowed to be antisemitic. Guess he startes too soon.
nobody’s really stopping him.
Mel Gibson took a decade off for the stink of his antisemitism to be forgotten by… the five people who watched The Continental. Now if people would just let him be a crusty millionaire people don’t talk about anymore, that’d be nice.But Kanye’s timing is pretty relevant. He seems lucid enough not to let his antisemitism confuse people into thinking he’s also critical of Israel too (much like Netanyahu’s constant attacks on and contempt for Jewish-Americans and outspoken love of an actual Nazi named Trump), so he’ll probably slide under the radar while the ADL hunts down teenagers for protesting against genocide or telling people not to buy Sodastream and Sabra hummus or whatever.
I still think Mel is a shitheap.
If this has been him “not allowed” this whole time, we’re in for a wild ass ride.
Since you’re out of the greys already anyway: Fuck off with your shitty dogwhistle.
So you want him to be antisemitic?
Ice cube’s been skating free for some time now
“Palestinians should be wiped off the face of the planet!”ADL: We forgive you now!
Ahead of the long-delayed release of his upcoming collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures,
Kanye West is apologizing to the Jewish community for a dizzying number
of anti-semitic rants that have drastically marred his career over the
past year.
So what happens after the album is released and the initial surge of sales is past?
Imma let you finish that thought in a couple of months…
Who in their right mind would want to collaborate with a well-known anti-semite? What? His name’s . . . Tied…Ty? . . . Dollar . . . Sign? Oh, I guess that answers that.“a dizzying number of anti-semitic rants”
How did Hitler ever manage to stand up straight?
Wait, so he likely used a translating app to type a message on Instagram? Or had someone do it? I thought maybe he spoke Hebrew. I’m sure there’s many people who think that’s not nearly sufficient, but it would’ve taken some time & effort.Gay kocken offen yam, Ye.
Are you fucking kidding that you thought he might speak and write in Hebrew? Not a fucking chance. Maybe he used a translation app. Maybe someone else wrote it for him. No, that didn’t take “some time and effort” to write about four sentences. And, given that translation (my Hebrew skills are diminished from what they used to be), that’s not much of an apology at all.No, fuck Kanye. He said what he said, multiple times. And he asks for forgiveness? That’s not an apology, that’s asking for a favor to make himself feel good. Let his future words (or lack there of) and actions show if he has truly understood the harm of what he’s done and if he has changed.
I didn’t think it for that long…sheesh!
But yes, for maybe 1 – 15 consecutive seconds, from reading the headline to reading the article, I thought “Huh, did Kanye broadcast a video where he spoke Hebrew and apologized for what he’s said?”
As I said above, even if he had done that, I’m sure for a lot of people (including me) that wouldn’t make up for the hate speech he’s said or how long he’s been saying it and doubling down etc.
It would’ve taken some time and effort to write an apology and have it translated and learn to pronounce it well enough that it’s not disrespectful. And it would’ve been a nice first step on a journey of self-reflection, personal growth and probably a bit of therapy.
But it was just typing into an app and sharing on Instafreakinggram. Because he has an album coming out.
“I didn’t think” story of your life.
Kinja Caffeine Spider isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. The most obnoxious and try-hard and aggressively unfunny maybe, but… not the sharpest.
He’s the kid in class who would not shut up and thought the negative attention was a good thing.
Utter. Fucking. Bullshit. Putting unintended outburst in quotation marks is a rank insult. He knew exactly what he was doing. No one praises Hitler accidentally. He knew exactly what he was doing, and how much it would stir things up, get people talking.He’s doing this for the attention, like the attention whore he is.
I dunno. Last week I tripped on a tree root and accidentally praised Morgoth.
It’s even better that he’s not even saying that he was responsible for the “unintended outburst” – only he’s sorry that they happened if his words caused them. So his words were OK in his book, still are. He’s just really sorry that unintended outbursts of disgust occured in an unrelated series of events that he might have unintentionally inspired.
“It was not my intention to hurt or demean”
What was the intention then, Ye?
He wants to ensure greater understanding that’s why it’s in Hebrew. Get it.
Maybe he could just shut up and go away? Disappear completely? Sorry, I’m an optimist.
Looks like kanye started taking his meds again.
But don’t worry, he still hates jewish people, he just remembers that he should be hiding it.
Anyway, give it a few months, and he’ll be back to defcon 3 again. Still, I can’t believe 1.4millions are stupid enough to like this tweet.
The people liking his tweet are probably mostly the Musk dorks who are dumb enough to stay with Twitter and pay for the blue checkmark.
Fuck off, Ye. That “I found this template on “www.freeapologies.biz/ididabigotry.htm” apology is bullshit. And fuck Ty for enabling you.
The very act of putting it in Hebrew basically feels like he’s saying “Dear Elders of Zion, I’m sorry I inadvertently insulted your very nice blood cabal”. I would tell him to eat a dick, but I should probably Google translate it into German first so he’ll get the message.
Very cool, Kanye. I’ll check in with you in five to ten years to see if you’ve truly dedicated yourself to becoming a decent human being again. Godspeed.
Kanye is a douche. His past musical accomplishments no longer hold sway with me, haven’t in a looong time. IF anyone deserves to be canceled, it’s this dick.
kanyee’s true, heartfelt apology has reached across the ages, the troubled lands, the millions we have lost and touched my Jewish soul. And I’m not even Jewish.
Is there a term for words blathered being equivalent to “crocodile tears”? If so, I’d say that’s what West is up to with a sincerity factor of zero.
sure Kanye has apologized, but what about Other Kanye? Surely Other Kanye has an opinion.
On behalf of Jewish people I accept Ye.
I didn’t realize dog shit could be religious