Friends star David Schwimmer urges Elon Musk to remove Kanye West from X after ‘hate-filled, ignorant’ comments
Many of the rapper’s X posts on Friday centred on the Jewish community, the most
severe of which said “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi”.
Sunday 9 February 2025 04:31, UK
Friends star David Schwimmer has called on X owner Elon Musk to remove Kanye
West from the platform.
It comes after the US rapper, also known as Ye
[https://news.sky.com/topic/kanye-west-5891], appeared to write a barrage of
posts on his social media account, making offensive comments, including about
Jewish people.
Many of the musician’s X posts on Friday centred on the Jewish community, the
most severe of which said “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi”.
Another post said: “I’m never apologising for my Jewish comments.”
On Saturday, Schwimmer, who is Jewish, urged Mr Musk
[https://news.sky.com/topic/elon-musk-6730] to remove West from X because of his
“hate-filled, ignorant bile”.
The US actor said on his Instagram account: “This is so 2022.
“We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we
CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk.
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“Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That’s twice as many
people than the number of Jews in existence.
“His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews.
“I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that he identifies as a Nazi (which implies
he wants to exterminate ALL marginalized communities including his own) or the
fact that there is not sufficient OUTRAGE to remove and ban him from all social
media at this point.”
“Silence is complicity,” he added.
A while later, West was posting more offensive comments about Jewish people.
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The Campaign Against Antisemitism has also called for Mr Musk to remove West
from X.
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West has had his X account suspended at least twice in the past.
It was suspended in December 2022 after he made antisemitic comments and praised
Hitler.
Mr Musk said at the time the account would be suspended after he posted an image
that appeared to show a swastika inside a Star of David.
Mr Musk said the suspension was “for incitement to violence”. The account was
unsuspended by July 2023.
In October 2022, West’s account was restricted over antisemitic comments but he
returned to the platform the following month. In that case, he also made
antisemitic remarks that led to Adidas cutting ties with the rapper.
