Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, whose career collapsed in autumn 2022 after he went on an antisemitic tirade.
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Sports A timeline of Kyrie Irving’s antisemitism controversy
The NBA star was suspended for a minimum of five games Thursday night. A few hours later, he finally apologized for sharing the antisemitic movie last week.
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Fast Forward Former Trump officials call on Jared and Ivanka to weigh in on West, Fuentes dinner
‘I don't understand what our former boss is doing,’ Larry Kudlow, former White House chief economic adviser, said on his Fox Business show
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Fast Forward Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy responds to Kanye West’s antisemitism: ‘Come see me, bro’
'I will fight for my people in the octagon, or wherever need be, and I will not stand for antisemitism,' Levy said.
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Fast Forward Antisemitic incidents are spiking in NYC and made up 60% of all hate crimes last month
The NYPD documented a total of 662 incidents motivated by anti-Jewish bias this year
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Fast Forward ‘Silence is complicity’: Biden calls on political leaders to denounce antisemitism, not platform it
Biden also alluded to Ye’s Infowars appearance, saying 'The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure.'
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Culture Can we all please shut up about Kanye West now?
We're just giving him more attention now
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Fast Forward On Reddit, Kanye superfans finally reach their breaking point
The r/Kanye subreddit is no longer analyzing lyrics — it's educating about the dangers of Nazism
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Culture Nazi aesthetics sold Kanye West on everything else about Hitler
If you watch the Infowars interview, West was mostly praising the looks and sounds of Hitler’s Germany
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic hit-and-run squads’: Amsterdam temporarily bans demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans attacked by street mobs
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Yiddish באַקענט זיך מיטן אוקראַיִנישן איבערזעצער פֿונעם ליד „אויפֿן וועג שטייט אַ בוים“Meet the Ukrainian translator of the song ‘Afn veg shteyt a boym’
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Culture Why is the latest Jesus movie about, uh, mixed martial arts?
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