Ye, the artist identified for a number of antisemitic remarks and previously generally known as Kanye West, thanked actor Jonah Hill for serving to him “like Jewish folks once more” in a head-scratching Instagram publish early Saturday.
The rapper, who infamously praised Nazi chief Adolf Hitler almost 4 months in the past, wrote that his emotions modified after watching Hill — who was raised Jewish — within the 2012 comedy “21 Bounce Road.”
“Nobody ought to take anger towards one or two people and rework that into hatred in direction of hundreds of thousands of harmless folks,” wrote Ye.
On Twitter, customers criticized the publish and questioned how the movie, of all issues, would result in this sort of change in mindset.
Ye’s feedback come after the Anti-Defamation League launched a report this week tallying antisemitic incidents that occurred throughout the U.S. in 2022. The group counted 59 incidents that “straight referenced” Ye beginning in October, when he started making “quite a few dangerous, conspiratorial statements about Jews.”
These included acts of vandalism, harassment and assault, the ADL discovered.
Normally, the variety of antisemitic incidents reached a historic excessive within the U.S. final yr, the group stated, with almost 3,700 recorded.
“This information confirms what Jewish communities throughout the nation have felt and seen firsthand – and corresponds with the rise in antisemitic attitudes,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO and nationwide director, stated in a press launch for the report.