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US rap artist Kanye West has watched the comedy
21 Jump Street, starring actor Jonah Hill, and it has changed his outlook on Jewish people, he wrote on Instagram on Saturday. The musician has been at the center of multiple anti-Semitism scandals.
"Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again," West said.
"No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people," he elaborated, possibly referring to himself in the post that has already garnered 1.4 million likes.
West concluded the post by thanking Hill and saying he loves him.The rapper, who legally changed his name to 'Ye,' is a multi-Grammy award winning artist and producer. In October 2022, Ye posted to Twitter that he was about to go "death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE," a reference to the US defense readiness alert system. The tweet was removed and West's account was suspended. In December, West was a guest on the controversial InfoWars podcast, hosted by Alex Jones. During the show, the rapper stated that he "sees good things about Hitler."
West's Twitter account was reinstated by the platform's new CEO, Elon Musk, in November. However, the very next month the artist found himself banned once again after he tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David.
West's anti-Semitic remarks have cost him partnerships with multiple brands like Vogue, Balenciaga and Gap. German sneaker brand Adidas announced a "review" of their billion-dollar deal with Ye, which impacted the performer's net worth, causing him to lose his billionaire status. Ironically, West had boasted in October that "I can say anti-Semitic s**t and Adidas cannot drop me."
The Anti-Defamation League released a report in February counting at least 30 anti-Semitic incidents directly connected to West and his beliefs. The organization said that those instances "demonstrate the ongoing influence of Ye's conspiratorial, bigoted rants."
The movie that apparently caused the 180-degree turn in the artist's views,
21 Jump Street, is
a 2012 buddy cop action comedy. It was a commercial and critical success, praised for its humor. Jewish-American comedian Jonah Hill played the character of Morton Schmidt in the film. He has not yet commented on his performance having such a profound effect on West.
Reader Comments
Eve means Life and is an extremely similar name to Yahweh, It Will Be.
Adam was placed in the constellation Aries, making him tiller of the Field constellation, or Pegasus Square.
The Adam and Eve story, nonetheless, seems to have more commonalities with African myth, though the only one I can remember just now is the first woman hitting the sky with a stick. But then, didn't Ye say Jews were blacks? So that makes him close. I still wonder where Jews come from. If they were Atlantean descendants, would that make them semitic? Or were they Phoenicians/Greeks? Combined with ancient Palestinians? Were later Khazarians semitic, they were in the south Caucasus? Did they really come from Khazaria or did they suddenly appear in Germany some other way? What about the Hyksos from Egypt? Or Arabs in or near the land of Judah? Did the priestly class of Jews replace them all? It's all very confusing.
Three entries in the index for Hyksos in Vol. II, 1st. ed. ยฉ2013: pgs. 22, 203, 218: Vol I. ยฉ2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 L.K.J.
Index entries: Israelis, pg. 353 Index: Khazar kingdom, 477, Khazars, 477 Hyksos, pgs 179, 356, 363, 404, 405, 410, 413, 414, 421, 425
Hyksos empire, 363
Hyksos era, 414
Hyksos king, 412
Hyksos kings, 410, 428
Crystal clear, different populations with different beliefs migrated through the place; the priestly class, or Jews favored by the ruling empires, introduced a different order. The monotheism may even have come late, from Persia; but the monolatry, regardless, serves the Jewish priests above anyone else. I think the question to be asked is what are Jews, why are Ashkenazi different, why are they not semitic in origin. They are a mix of Middle Easterners, Romans (same ancestry as middle easterners, just migrated), Turks (but at least some of the genetics comes from further south).
But that does seem to provide a thorough enough answer; all populations are a bit of a mixed bag, and the same would go for the origins of myths.
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Kanye / Ye can you explain Jewish Sectarianism ?
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