{"id":71709,"date":"2023-12-27T10:09:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=71709"},"modified":"2023-12-27T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T15:09:26","slug":"kanye-west-apologizes-for-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/kanye-west-apologizes-for-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West apologizes for anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n

US rapper Kanye West apologized to the Jewish community Tuesday, after a series of anti-Semitic comments that sparked outrage and led to the star being dropped from lucrative commercial deals and banned from social media.<\/p>\n

The reason for the timing of the mea culpa was unclear \u2014 West\u2019s most high profile outbursts came more than a year ago \u2014 although his next album, \u201cVultures,\u201d is due out in two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions. It was not my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,\u201d he said in a statement written in Hebrew on his Instagram page.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several of the comments below the statement complained that it was written in Hebrew, which comparatively few people can read.<\/p>\n

West, who now goes professionally by Ye, has shocked and alarmed fans with a series of threats against Jewish people that drove sportswear giant Adidas and other fashion houses to dump him, and saw him locked out of most social media platforms.<\/p>\n

The 46-year-old one-time titan of fashion and music has made declarations of \u201clove\u201d for Nazis and voiced his admiration for Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

West posted an image to social media site X in 2022 that appeared to show a swastika interlaced with a Star of David, and was suspended by the platform\u2019s owner Elon Musk, who accused the artist of \u201cincitement to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cGold Digger\u201d rapper said in March that he was renouncing anti-Semitism after watching\u00a0actor\u00a0Jonah Hill in the film \u201c21 Jump Street\u201d \u2014 in a performance that made him \u201clike Jewish people again.\u201d<\/p>\n

West\u2019s apology comes at a time of rising concern in the United States over a normalization of anti-Semitic discourse \u2014 increasingly co-opted by a white supremacist fringe that was emboldened under the presidency of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The chart-topper took part in an unhinged interview last year with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, in which he ranted about the devil, professed his \u201clove\u201d of the Nazis and declared \u201cI like Hitler.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Anti-Defamation League welcomed Tuesday\u2019s apology but noted that West had caused \u201cuntold damage\u201d by using his vast influence to \u201cpoison countless minds with vicious antisemitism and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By AFP US rapper Kanye West apologized to the Jewish community Tuesday, after a series of anti-Semitic comments that sparked outrage and led to the star being dropped from lucrative commercial deals and banned from social media. The reason for the timing of the mea culpa was unclear \u2014 West\u2019s most high profile outbursts came more than a year ago \u2014 although his next album, \u201cVultures,\u201d is due out in two weeks. \u201cI sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions. It was not my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,\u201d he said in a statement written in Hebrew on his Instagram page. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":65255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1695],"class_list":["post-71709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-kanye-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}