antisemitism

In third grade, I practiced holding my hand in a bowl of ice water, training myself to endure pain for the coming concentration camps. After learning about Anne Frank and the horrors of the Holocaust in my synagogue’s Sunday school, I became terrified that black-booted Nazis would come stomping down the hallway. I have grown up with Kanye West, now referred to as Ye. I awkwardly danced to his music in the school gym in the seventh grade, blasted it through open car windows when I got my driver’s…

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The British actor Sacha Baron Cohen reprised his character Borat and stole the show at America’s prestigious Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night, targeting the former president Donald Trump, the rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, and antisemitism.President Joe Biden smiled broadly and his wife, Jill, was in fits of laughter as Cohen told risque jokes in the comical accent of Kazakh television journalist Borat Sagdiyev.“I know the president of US and A is here,” Borat said to an audience including politicians and…

Amid a historic uptick in antisemitism in the United States, President Joe Biden tweeted an unequivocal rejection of hate speech and admiration for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on Friday, less than a day after Kanye West repeatedly told conspiracist Alex Jones “I like Hitler,” while praising the Nazi regime on Jones’ Infowars talk show. “I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure,” Biden tweeted in the statement that did not mention West by name. “And instead…

President Joe Biden denounced antisemitism and took a veiled jab at Donald Trump days after the former president dined with rapper Ye, who has made a string of recent antisemitic comments, and white nationalist Nick Fuentes."I just want to make a few things clear," Biden tweeted Friday from his official account. "The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity."The…

WASHINGTON —  Nearly eight decades after the end of the Holocaust and four years after an attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh took the lives of 11 people as they prayed, it shouldn’t be hard to reject a political leader who openly associates with antisemites.For Republican leaders, however, the Trump era has played out as one long series of compromised principles. The last week has highlighted the toll that continues to take.With Congress back to work this week, some Republican leaders have been publicly commenting on…

In Amazon’s view, customers don’t need disclaimers. They just need to read the reviews.Photo: David Ryder (Getty Images)Amazon’s CEO announced the company will not remove the antisemitic movie, Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, from its store or include a disclaimer on the site explaining the context of the film’s discriminatory viewpoints. Instead, the company will rely on customer reviews about the movie as a form of content moderation. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defended the company’s decision by sayingthat Amazon…

Photo: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images)Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, is once again being called an antisemite for voicing his support for Adolf Hitler in an interview on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ show InfoWars. Ye told Jones he sees “good things about Hitler” after Jones suggested he has been “demonized” in the media for his antisemitic remarks. “Well, I see good things about Hitler, also,” Ye said in the InfoWars clip. “I love everyone, and Jewish people are not gonna tell me… ‘You can love us, and you can love…

Pusha T has spoken out about recent developments surrounding the artist formerly known as Kanye West, who in recent months has been at the center of ongoing criticism in response to a string of comments widely slammed as anti-Semitic.In a recently shared Los Angeles Times chat, Push—who was recently in the house for the 2022 edition of ComplexCon—spoke briefly about these “very disappointing” recent months.“Definitely affected me,” he told writer August Brown, as seen in the video below. “To describe it, I’d say it’s been…

LeBron James condemned hate speech of any kind — including antisemitism — following the Lakers’ 130-116 loss to Utah, saying he has “love” for Kyrie Irving but the Nets guard “caused some harm to a lot of people.”“It doesn’t matter what color your skin is, how tall you are, what position you’re in. If you are promoting or soliciting or saying harmful things to any community that harms people, then I don’t respect it,” James said. “I don’t condone it.”James pointed to his production company’s decision not to air an episode…