Ye, formally known as Kanye West left the interview with Youtuber Tim Pool in the middle after receiving pushback on anti-Semitic views.
The Donda singer defended his stance on the recent media backlash over his anti-Semitic tirades, saying, “I just got to go to the heart of this antisemite claim.”
However, when Pool started questioning Ye’s views, the rapper threatened to leave the set. “I feel like it’s a setup … I’m going to walk the (expletive) off the show if I’m having to talk about, ‘You can’t say Jewish people did it,’ when every sensible person knows — that Jon Stewart knows — what happened to me, and they took it to far,” he was quoted as saying.
Ye (formerly Kanye West) walks out of an interview with Tim Pool when pushed on his claim that Jews control the media.
Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos followed him off set too. pic.twitter.com/eKAUeDS9kd
— Jewish News Syndicate (@JNS_org) November 29, 2022
Pool followed up by telling Ye he agreed that “they have been extremely unfair,” which prompted West to ask what the host meant by “they.” Ye added, “We can’t say who they is?” appearing to refer to his earlier antisemitic comments that Jewish people controlled the media.
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West has been attracting negative attention and mounting calls for companies such as Addidas to cut ties with him following several weeks over his anti-Semitic. It happened during his since-deleted podcast interview with Drink Champs—where he made unfounded claims that Jewish people hold immeasurable power in media.
