Kanye West has finally apologized for his various anti-Semitic outbursts, which even saw him expressing support for Adolf Hitler, and resulted in him losing a string of lucrative endorsement deals and being dropped by his talent agency.
West , 46, issued the apology in Hebrew on his newly-reactivated Instagram page in the early hours of December 26.
‘I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions. It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,’ the apology read in part.
‘I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding More in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.’
Many in the comments, writing in Hebrew, appeared to accept the apology. However, one commenter warned: ‘Next time we won’t accept forgiveness, be careful.’
Kanye West, 46, has finally apologized for his various anti-Semitic outbursts that began in 2022 and continued up until a few weeks ago
I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions. It was not my intention to hurt or demean, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,’ the apology read in part
West’s recent social media return has already generated controversy as he revealed that he appointed controversial Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy as the Yeezy brand’s head of design.
Multiple men have come forward to accuse Rubchinskiy of pressuring young men to send him explicit pictures of themselves. The Moscow-born designer has denied the allegations
Hours before West’s apology, Israeli MMA fighter Haim Gozali claimed that he was responsible for putting the Golddigger rapper’s name on an IDF missile that was bound for Gaza.
Gozali, who has served in the Israeli military before, posted a picture on Sunday to X which showed the words ‘Kanye West Flying to Gaza Haim Gozali’ on an apparent missile.
Gozali, 50, captioned the post, ‘@kanyewest you don’t like us jewish. So we don’t like you too !!!’
It is not clear whether Gozali actually wrote the message himself.
He previously posted a similar photo with the names of Khabib Nurmagomedov , Islam Makhachev, Khamzat Chimaev and Belal Muhammad written on an IDF missile.
Those four fighters are all Muslim and have voiced their support for Palestine.
Haim Gozali posted this picture on X with Kanye West’s name written on a missile
Kanye West has come under increasing scrutiny for his anti-Semitic rhetoric
This month, West was accused of going into yet another anti-Semitic tirade during an event in Las Vegas, on top of being accused of using similar language in his latest track, Vultures.
West told a crowd in which he claimed ‘all the rich f***s’ in the room have their kids in ‘Zionist schools’ and that daughter North, 10, had destroyed couches in her house so she could join him on tour.
In a video obtained by TMZ, West falsely claims: ‘It’s 60 million of us in America, 60 million Jews in the world.
’50 per cent of our deaths is abortion, 25 per cent of us go to prison… raise your hand if you ever got an abortion
‘If we were in a Jewish… every mother would raise their hands.’
‘Who’s going to make the hospitals, though? He’s a Zionist, Trump. This is what I’ve been trying to tell you. Jesus Christ, Hitler, Ye, third party, sponsor that!’
He added: ‘They cant f*****g touch me because God cover me.’
Jewish organizations recently slammed Kanye over his new track ‘Vultures’ which features the lyrics, ‘How am I anti-Semitic? I just f***ed a Jewish b****.’
Shouting at the crowd to ‘shut the f*** up’ he said: ‘I dont give a f*** about life or death, I get visitation with my kids’ before adding: ‘F*** Balenciaga’.
West also slammed the school his children attend and said: ‘North ripped up the motherf****ng couches in the house’ to be able to travel with her father on his trip.
Just days before that unhinged rant, West was branded a ‘disgusting human being’ by some fans after he wore a KKK-style hood in Miami.
The artist put on a fabric head covering featuring a point at the top at an overnight listening event with collaborator Ty Dolla Sign as they performed their controversial track Vultures which features vile lyrics about a Jewish woman.
Vultures features the ‘offensive’ lyrics: ‘How am I anti-Semitic? I just f***ed a Jewish b****.’
In 2022, West made anti-Semitic comments in interviews and social media, including an October Twitter post in which he said he would soon go ‘death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,’ an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON.
He had previously suggested that slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the ‘mark of the beast,’ among other comments.
He also took heat for wearing a ‘White Lives Matter’ T-shirt to Paris Fashion Week and putting models in the same design. In 2020, Ye’s then-wife Kim Kardashian said that the rapper has bipolar disorder, a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings.
West expressed some regrets in a podcast interview, but a few months later tweeted an image of a swastika merged with the Star of David, leading the platform to suspend him.
After he received the same treatment on other social media outlets, Ye offered to buy Parler, a conservative social network with no gatekeeper. No deal ever materialized.
The break with West left Adidas with a huge supply of unsold Yeezy sneakers that it has begun to sell in limited batches. It has held two such sales — one in May, the other last month.
For both of those sales, Adidas said it donated a portion of the proceeds to charities such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change.
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