Kanye West is returning to social media to share an replace on his emotions towards Jewish individuals.
The rapper and vogue mogul, who now goes by Ye, shared a publish on Instagram Friday (March 24) claiming that actor Jonah Hill’s efficiency in 21 Bounce Avenue helped change his views about antisemitism.
“Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Bounce road made me like Jewish individuals once more,” Ye wrote alongside a poster for the 2012 comedy, which additionally starred Channing Tatum. “Nobody ought to take anger towards one or two people and rework that into hatred in the direction of tens of millions of harmless individuals.”
The rapper added, “No Christian might be labeled antisemite figuring out Jesus is Jew. Thanks Jonah Hill I really like you.”
Hill hadn’t publicly responded to Ye’s publish at press time, however 21 Bounce Avenue administrators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller reacted on their respective Twitter accounts. “Um… thanks for watching?” Miller wrote, whereas Lord tweeted, “Laughter is one of the best medication.”
Ye has principally been absent from social media following a slew of antisemitic feedback in late 2022.
After receiving backlash for sporting a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt in October 2022 at Paris Vogue Week, Ye tweeted that he was going to go “loss of life con 3” on Jewish individuals on Oct. 16. This started a string of hate-speech-filled interviews, which reached an much more disturbing stage when he appeared on Alex Jones’ InfoWars and mentioned “I see good issues about Hitler,” amongst different hateful rhetoric.
In February, the Anti-Defamation League revealed a report tying Ye’s onslaught of anti-Jewish statements to 30 completely different incidents of “antisemitic incidents” up to now a number of months.
“These incidents — which embody vandalism, banner drops, focused harassment and campus propaganda distributions — display the continuing affect of Ye’s conspiratorial, bigoted rants,” the report reads.
The continuing controversy was additionally just lately lampooned within the season 26 premiere of South Park, with Cupid Ye zooming round taking pictures hearts crammed with antisemitism as an alternative of affection at varied characters.
See Ye’s newest Instagram publish right here.
