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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Culture Would going to the Holocaust Museum actually cure Kanye’s antisemitism?
The rapper turned down an offer to visit LA's Holocaust museum. Maybe that's for the best.
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Opinion Hey, Kanye West defenders: Critiquing ‘secular elites’ is actually still antisemitism
Conservative responses to Kanye West's antisemitic outbursts allege he was not critiquing 'religious Jews'
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Fast Forward Trump defends Kanye West in the wake of his own scorning of American Jews
The former president said West likes him very much and is often misinterpreted
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Opinion I listened to Kanye West slander Jews for three hours so that you don’t have to
In a recent interview, the rapper blamed all of his problems on the Jews.
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Opinion The real Kanye West scandal everyone is missing
Unless antisemitic rhetoric is painfully obvious, it gets ignored
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Fast Forward Candace Owens says no ‘honest person’ thought Kanye’s tweet was antisemitic
On her show, Owens seemed to suggest that anything short of calls for genocide may not qualify as antisemitism
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Culture Tucker Carlson applauded Kanye West’s ‘bold’ beliefs — but he edited out a lot of antisemitism
The rapper rambled about his hate for woke culture and love of Trump on the Fox show. His harmful beliefs about Jews, however, didn't air.
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Culture Why are we afraid to call Kanye West’s posts antisemitic?
The rapper tweeted that he wanted to go "death con 3 on Jewish people," yet numerous major outlets called this "purported" antisemitism
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