This is 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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The leader of the groypers, the 24-year-old is an outspoken white supremacist
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Fast Forward Trump hosts Kanye West and prominent antisemite Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago
Trump claims he didn't invite white nationalist Nick Fuentes and that he didn't know anything about him
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Looking Forward What I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving, from A to Z
Our editor-in-chief gives thanks to pelotons, Zoom, dad jokes and Kanye West (but not for the reason you may think)
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News For an Israelite chief rabbi, a ‘mess’ of Kanye’s making
Rabbi Capers Funnye leads the largest Israelite movement in the United States. He's tired of people conflating it with extremists
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Opinion Jon Stewart is not our ‘spokesjew’ — he normalized hate speech
In his interview with Stephen Colbert, Stewart failed to truly address antisemitism and erased Black Jews in the process
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Opinion We deserve better haters than Chappelle, West and Irving
Jews have been accused of the same things for thousands of years. Surely there are new tropes out there for creative bigots
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Film & TV Jon Stewart is right about how to fight antisemitism — and should maybe be our ‘spokesjew’
The comedian gave a sober (if funny) analysis of the frenzy surrounding Kyrie Irving, Kanye West and Dave Chappelle
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