Kim Kardashian appears to respond to ex-husband Kanye West’s Antisemitic Twitter rant: ‘Hate speech is never OK’
- Kim Kardashian appeared to respond to Kanye West’s antisemitic tweets.
- “Hate speech is never OK or excusable,” Kardashian wrote on Twitter Monday.
Kim Kardashian appeared to respond to her ex-husband Ye’s — formerly known as Kanye West — antisemitic rants on social media.
“Hate speech is never OK or excusable,” Kardashian wrote on Twitter Monday. “I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”
Her comments come more than two weeks after Ye was locked out of his Twitter account. A Twitter spokesperson told Buzzfeed News on October 9 that Ye’s account had been locked “due to a violation of Twitter’s policies.”
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” Ye tweeted. He then defended himself by saying he can’t be antisemitic because “black people are actually Jew also.”
Ye had posted on the platform after Instagram banned the rapper for repeated violations of its terms, Meta told Insider.
As Insider previously reported, Jewish groups including the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and StopAntisemitism.org accused Ye of antisemitism after he claimed during an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that Jared Kushner, who is Jewish, had brokered the Abraham Accords for his own profit. Motherboard also obtained unaired clips of Ye’s interview with Carlson, which contained further antisemitic statements.
Ye also suggested in a since-deleted Instagram post that Sean “Diddy” Combs had been “told” by “Jewish people” to call him.
Numerous brands have dropped Ye in the wake of his comments.
Balenciaga’s parent company Kering said in a statement that it no longer had a relationship with Ye, Insider previously reported, and a spokesperson for fashion magazine Vogue told Page Six that it, and editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, had no further plans to work with him.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday that talent agency CAA had ended its relationship with Ye, and MRC Entertainment announced as well that it would no longer move forward with a completed documentary about him, per Deadline.
Kardashian’s sister, Khloé Kardashian, is so far the only other member of the Kardashian-Jenner family to say that they stand with the Jewish community. She shared a post from @jessseinfeld on her Instagram story late Sunday evening that reads, “I support my Jewish friends and the Jewish people.” Her post, like Kardashian’s, does not specifically mention Ye.
