Kanye West Slammed via ADL Over ‘Vile’ Antisemitism & Swastika Shirts

The Anti-Defamation League has spoken out towards Ye, the artist previously referred to as Kanye West, following the rapper’s bout of antisemitic posts on X over the weekend that not too long ago escalated into the sale of swastika T-shirts on his website online.

In a observation posted to X Monday (Feb. 10), the ADL — which fits to fight antisemitism and different kinds of bigotry — referred to as the “Donda” artist’s phrases for what they had been. “As though we wanted additional evidence of Kanye’s antisemitism, he selected to place a unmarried merchandise on the market on his website online – a t-shirt emblazoned with a swastika,” the group wrote. “The swastika is the emblem followed via Hitler as the main logo of the Nazis. It galvanized his fans within the twentieth century and continues to threaten and instill concern in the ones centered via antisemitism and white supremacy.”

“If that wasn’t sufficient, the t-shirt is categorized on Kanye’s website online as ‘HH-01,’ which is code for ‘Heil Hitler,’” the put up persevered. “There’s no excuse for this sort of habits. Even worse, Kanye marketed his website online throughout the Tremendous Bowl, amplifying it past his already large social media target audience.”

Certainly, Ye marketed his Yeezy website online throughout the 2025 Tremendous Bowl broadcast Sunday (Feb. 9), which aired amid a days-long hurricane of hateful tweets from the famous person focused on Jewish other folks. Along with promoting shirts emblazoned with one of the crucial well-known symbols of hate in global historical past and brazenly stating himself to be a Nazi on X, the musician often known as for the discharge of Diddy — who’s waiting for trial on a lot of allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse — and insulted Taylor Swift earlier than his account at the Elon Musk-owned platform was once deleted.

At the ADL website online, CEO and nationwide director Jonathan Greenblatt shared his personal observation responding to Ye’s habits. “We all know this sport all too smartly,” Greenblatt wrote Friday (Feb. 7). “Let’s name Ye’s hate-filled public rant for what it in point of fact is: a tragic try for consideration that makes use of Jews as a scapegoat … Phrases subject. And as we’ve observed too time and again earlier than, hateful rhetoric can advised real-world penalties.”

This isn’t the primary time Ye has loudly and publicly discriminated towards Jewish other folks. He first posted antisemitic rhetoric on his X account in October 2022, round the similar time he featured “White Lives Topic” T-shirts in his Yeezy Paris Style Week display. A number of firms have since lower ties with the hip-hop icon whilst a lot of public figures have distanced themselves from him, and Ye ended up shedding his billionaire standing because of the fallout; in January, then again, he claimed that he had turn into a billionaire as soon as once more.