Kanye West: Ye clashes with Piers Morgan in new interview, admits antisemitic comments caused ‘hurt’

“You don’t hold accountability to my pain, you’re being a Karen,” West told the presenter in a TalkTV interview, parts of which were aired on Wednesday.

Comedian Jon Stewart has slammed Kanye West and Donald Trump for their “weird Jew paranoia bulls***.”

The former Daily Show host addressed the rapper’s antisemitism controversy and the one-term president’s comments on Israel in the companion podcast to The Problem with Jon Stewart.

Rapper initially doubled down on his comments saying he ‘fought fire with fire’, writes Tom Murray.

Each time a new outrage-inducing line from Kanye West emerges, I wonder at what point we are doing more harm than good by giving his vitriol oxygen through our reporting, writes Megan Sheets.

The former president is frequently accused of racism and antisemitic remarks, writes Josh Marcus.

ICYMI: Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday refused to say whether former president Donald Trump’s threat that American Jews should be more appreciative of him “before it’s too late” was antisemitic or opine on whether the twice-impeached ex-president is an antisemite.

Mr Netanyahu – who has twice served as Israel’s prime minister – was pressed on Mr Trump’s latest antisemitic comments while promoting his memoir on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Asked what he made of Mr Trump’s claim that Jews in the US should be more appreciative of what he has done for Israel — an invocation of dual loyalty tropes that most observers have condemned as classic antisemitism — Mr Netanyahu invoked Mr Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and his daughter, a convert to Judaism.

“Well, you know, he has a Jewish son-in-law and his daughter converted to Judaism, his grandchildren are raised as Jews,” he said.

Andrew Feinberg has the full report below.

ICYMI: Ice Cube has asked Kanye West to leave his name out of “all the antisemitic talk” after the fellow rapper mentioned him in a recent podcast episode.

Speaking of his antisemitic comments, West said that Ice Cube “really set me up for this”.

“[He] really influenced me to get on this antisemite vibe,” West claimed during the podcast episode, which has since been taken down.

On Tuesday (18 October), Ice Cube said he didn’t know “what Ye meant” with regard to his remarks and urged those with such questions to direct their inquiries toward the rapper.

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ICYMI: Donald Trump called Kanye West great for MAGA before telling a TV host that he couldn’t comment on the rapper’s slight against his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, which he made during an interview with Tucker Carlson, because he hadn’t seen that portion of the conversation.

“He’s been saying some really offensive things lately about your own son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and about Jewish people. Jewish Americans writ large. Could you react to that? Because is this the guy that you knew?” said Salem News’s Larry O’Connor during a telephone call with the former president.

During that two-part Fox News interview, West sharply criticised Mr Kushner, a former senior White House adviser to his father-in-law, and insinuated that he was a person solely motivated by financial gain.

“I just think it was to make money,” he told Mr Carlson of Mr Kushner’s work facilitating the Abraham Accords, a deal that sought to normalise ties between Israel and Arab nations.

In response, Mr Trump had this to say: “Well, I haven’t really seen the statements he’s made. I did watch the Tucker Carlson interview and he was really nice to me. Beyond anybody, he was. He was great to me,” he said.

He added in showering West with compliments, while being careful to dodge any explicit acknowledgement of his recent antisemitic remarks or his slights against his son-in-law.

“And he was great, really, to MAGA, to the MAGA movement, which was very impressive. I was, you know, not surprised. I always got along with him. I liked him. I’ve always gotten along with him,” he said.

ICYMI: Observers are alarmed at the increasing trend of right-leaning businessmen buying up social networks, from Kanye West buying Parler, to Peter Thiel funding Rumble, to Donald Trump’s Truth Social.

“It’s never been about free speech,” advocacy group Public Citizen said in a tweet on Monday. “It’s about power. It’s about control. It’s about evading accountability.”

Here’s what critics have said about the direction Mr Musk could take Twitter.

Rapper has made a stunning about-face since his words and actions in 2020, writes Michael Arceneaux.