Kanye West’s latest strange pronouncement online has been taken down as swirling accusations of anti-Semitism gather steam.
Twitter has removed a post from rapper Kanye West for violating its rules after he went on a late-night rant.
West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, had targeted Jewish people in his tweet, which was up for around an hour and attracted tens of thousands of engagements before being removed.
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE,” West wrote. He likely meant DEFCON 3, an allusion to the US military’s alert system.
“The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also,” he continued.
“You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
Now, with the tweet taken down, loading up its original URL yields a page that says: “This tweet violated the Twitter rules.”
West only returned to Twitter on Friday, local time, after nearly two years away from the social media platform. His return came after his Instagram account was restricted.
He has since posted two more tweets including one about cancel culture.
West earlier called out Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, saying “How you gone kick me off Instagram”.
Read the article by Kate Schneider in The Advertiser.