If Kanye West wants real forgiveness, it will be a long and daunting road.
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Kanye West has been spitting anti-Semitic rhetoric since 2022 when he foolishly announced on Twitter (X) that he was about to “death against Jews 3”. The backlash was swift, with his agents CAA, production companies MRC, Adidas, Gap and Balenciaga immediately put him down.
But instead of repentance, West doubled and appeared in the Information War, proudly proclaiming him as a Nazi and longing for his love for Adolf Hitler. Three years later, West’s words and actions left behind the wreckage. But on Thursday (May 22), West had nowhere to tweet that he had “completed it with anti-Semitism” and demanded forgiveness, claiming he was “regret” for the pain he had caused.
Then less than an hour later, West promoted his latest song, “Hair Hitler.” Do math.
Most people did not buy his Halloween apology, especially the divine apology in the Jewish community.
“Voice is cheap, and what matters is the action,” said Alyssa Hochfelder, a fitness and nutrition coach based in Colorado. “Your apology has not eliminated the real-world consequences of his anti-Semitic speech. At least 59 recorded anti-Semitic incidents directly quoted his name.
“It’s not the assumption that harming lives is actually threatened, and the community lives in fear. Not only is he tired of hatred, he also adds fuel to the already increased anti-Semitism fires. So until you put in real, ongoing work like education, compensation and community, his words don’t mean s ###.”
Of course, we’ve been here before. West had reviewed his inflammatory comments before, and his words seemed strange. In 2023, he wrote in Hebrew: “This is not my intention to offend or belittle it.
But he came back soon. Jewish rapper Kosha Dillz didn’t convince the West, meaning his apology words, now or then.
“Kanye is the product of our attention to the economy,” Xhosa said. “He is trying to hate our insensitivity to hatred.
“We don’t have to avoid Kanye; we avoid the opportunity to understand the hate of Jewish cancer (anti-anti-inhibitory) in society and reshape ourselves consistently. It’s like ‘If Kanye can rebound back and forth, why can’t everyone.’ But I don’t buy it [West’s apology]. If we re-enter easily without consequences, anyone will do this. ”
The American Jewish Council (AJC) has a very vocal position on Kanye West. Shortly after AJC CEO Ted Deutch released Heil Hitler, he noted: “It’s blatant anti-Semitism, which is disgusting. You are profiting from Jewish revelations and the music industry needs to step up its efforts to oppose this obsceneness.”
This is just West’s latest anti-Semitic outbreak in 2025, AJC noted. On February 7, he posted “I’m a Nazi” and “Some of my best friends are Jews and I don’t trust any of them,” as well as comments targeting people with disabilities and other ethnic groups.
Just a few days ago, West opened a Super Bowl ad at the Select Market to direct viewers to his online store, which was found selling a $20 T-shirt with a black S ################################# just to be offline.
If Kanye West wants to forgive, it will be a long and difficult road.
