Former colleague of Kanye West allegedly told “you’re exactly like other Jews”

A new documentary produced by the BBC, titled “The Trouble With KanYe”, reveals further inflammatory comments allegedly made by Kanye West. 

In the documentary, Alex Klein, a former business partner of Mr West’s, recalled a conversation between the two, in which Mr West allegedly told Mr Klein that he was “exactly like other Jews”. When Mr Klein asked Mr West if he believed that Jews are “working together to hold [him] back”, the rapper purportedly said “yes”.

The documentary follows the recent activities and rhetoric of Mr West, who last year said that he would go “death con 3 on Jewish people” before he doubled down, reiterating: “I want all the Jewish children to look at they [sic] daddy and say ‘Why is Ye mad at us?’”

On his partnership with Adidas, he also said last year: “The thing about me and Adidas is like, I can literally say antisemitic s*** and they can’t drop me. I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me. Now what?”

Campaign Against Antisemitism launched a petition demanding that Adidas drop Mr West in light of his antisemitic comments.

Adidas finally ended its partnership with him after the petition went viral and received over 180,000 signatures. 

Kim Kardashian, Mr West’s former wife, recently said on an episode of the show, The Kardashians: “I feel guilty that I posted something in support of the Jewish community, then people dropped him.” 

Campaign Against Antisemitism reports on news and incidents relating to antisemitism throughout the United States.