Experts in Jewish history and culture say we should be talking about Kanye West's antisemitism. That to be silent is to be complicit.
Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, used a Super Bowl ad to direct people to his website, where he is selling T-shirts emblazoned with swastikas.
A commercial for the shirts aired in some local markets during the Super Bowl, days after the rapper and designer called himself a Nazi on social media. The website was taken down Tuesday.
West’s unhinged rant concluded as the artist focused on what happened with Shopify after the e-commerce platform terminated his account. The Donda rapper unloaded on the company for doing some “pu**y sh*t,” and called for people to understand “the truth” about the Canadian e-commerce site.
Ye’s site hosted the shirt, but it was sold through the ecommerce platform Shopify. The shirt remained live until Shopify removed the listing this morning, and now searching Yeezy.com leads to an error page.
E-commerce platform Shopify on Tuesday shut down an online store belonging to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, after his website started exclusively selling T-shirts with swastikas.
The website run by Ye, which had been selling shirts featuring a swastika, was offline Tuesday morning after the ecommerce platform it uses said the site had violated its rules.
The rapper ran a Super Bowl ad directing viewers to visit Yeezy.com, where it promoted a $20 black t-shirt with a swastika.
Ye, who has a history of spewing antisemitic hate speech, ran a Super Bowl commercial promoting Yeezy.com, which was selling white t-shirts with a bold Nazi symbol in black.
Ye’s — formerly known as Kanye West — Yeezy website has been taken down following backlash to the sale of his swastika T-shirt in recent days. The rapper’s website used Shopify to make e-commerce transactions. Variety reported on Tuesday (Feb. 11) that Shopify said Ye had violated the company’s terms in recent days.
The “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” hitmaker expressed his admiration for the late dictator Adolf Hitler in a series of tweets before deleting his account.
where the only item he was selling was a $20 T-shirt featuring a swastika. The Anti-Defamation League wrote in a statement: "We know this game all too well. Let's call Ye's hate-filled public rant ...