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October 13, 2022

Kanye West, Roger Waters, and the Price of Celebrity Anti-Semitism

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After sitting for a two-part interview by the Fox News host Tucker Carlson in which he aired various outlandish opinions, including a criticism of the Abraham Accords, Kanye West took to Instagram to accuse a fellow entertainer of being controlled by Jews. He then used Twitter to threaten that he would be “going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE The funny thing is I actually can't be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also” [sic]. Both social-media sites, where the wildly successful hip-hop star—who in 2021 legally changed his name to “Ye”—has millions of followers, suspended his accounts. Stephen Pollard comments:

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