Ye faced criticism for tweets deemed anti-Semitic hours after being suspended from Instagram on Friday, as Sarah Silverman and Jamie Lee Curtis led Hollywood stars to speak out against the since-deleted Twitter post .
“Kanye threatened Jews on Twitter yesterday and it’s not even trending,” Silverman tweeted Sunday afternoon. “Why are only Jews speaking out against Jew-hatred? The silence is so loud.”
Before her post was pulled from the platform on Saturday evening, she wrote: “Tonight I have a little sleep, but when I wake up I will go to my death with 3 About THE JEWS The funny thing is that I actually can’t be anti-Semitic. because black people are Jews too. You guys have played with me and tried to black-face anyone who opposes your agenda.”
Curtis shared her tweet with her fans as she pleaded with Ye to stop her hurtful rhetoric.
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Sarah Silverman and Jamie Lee Curtis were two of the many Hollywood stars who spoke out against Ye’s tweet on Saturday night.
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“Judaism’s holiest day was last week,” Curtis shared with his millions of followers. “A threat to the Jewish people once ended in genocide.
“Your words hurt and incite violence. You are a father. Please father.”
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Devoted Howard Stern fan Michael Rapaport held up his Jewish star pendant as he dissed the “Power” singer, reminding him that he stood by him during the “Pistol Pete Davidson” era.
“This, this is unacceptable,” Rapaport said before adding that Ye would never manifest his dream of being president. “I’ll be the one to tell you to break the heart of your dream. You’ll never be president.”
The Black Jewish Entertainment Alliance denounced Ye’s tweet in a statement posted online.
“The recent statements about the Jewish community are hurtful, offensive and wrong,” they shared. “They perpetuate stereotypes that have been the basis of discrimination and violence against Jews for thousands of years. Words like this tear at the fabric of the black-Jewish relationship.
On Saturday morning, Elon Musk, who is in the process of acquiring the social media platform, welcomed Ye to the site after he was banned from Instagram.
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“Welcome back to Twitter my friend,” Musk wrote in response to a photo Ye shared of Mark Zuckerberg, who founded Facebook and is now the CEO of Meta, the company that also runs Instagram. “Look at this Mark,” West initially wrote. How did you get me off Instagram?”
Ye was reportedly banned from the platform for using alleged anti-Semitic language during an exchange with Diddy, according to FOX 7 in Austin. The musicians sparked a public spat after Ye wore a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt to a fashion show. in Paris
Meek Mill also blasted Ye for hating his “own people” in an Instagram story posted shortly after West’s interview with Tucker Carlson.
“I used to listen to you every night [in] prison for motivation to God! And I came home and I saw him like… with my name and brand like nothing… I’m not saying anything… but what you’re doing for fame is driving you crazy… I’m vocal, it’s like if you hate your own people…”
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The “Gold Digger” rapper got candid about his relationship with ex-wife Kim Kardashian and how he was “wagging his tongue” about his political views.
“I was Obama’s favorite artist … Obama met with me and my mother to tell her that he was running for office in 2008 and that he wanted support, and that everyone was very interested in this idea of the black president,” Ye exclusively told Carlson.
Candace Owens and Ye wearing White Lives Matter shirts.
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“We were always cool… how many of us are there? Obama level, Ye level… Virgil level, just black… so brilliant that we cut through all the lines of racism… you just can’t get rid of it. It’s Nat Nivell King Cole, Dave Chappelle level,” he continued.
“But as soon as I wasn’t saying the things I was supposed to say as a rapper, our connection faded away.”
