Kanye “Ye” West issued an apology to “the Jewish community” early Tuesday in an Instagram post after unleashing a slew of antisemitic remarks in Las Vegas earlier this month. “I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions,” West, 46, wrote on Instagram. “It was not my … Read more
Viewers blasted “Saturday Night Live’s” cold opener after the show mocked this week’s congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses — hours after University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned amid a flurry of backlash over her testimony. The opening sketch, set up as a C-SPAN broadcast, tried to poke fun at the presidents of … Read more
Dave Portnoy has narrowed down his hiring pool. The Barstool Sports head vowed this week to not hire applicants from Harvard, MIT and Penn after seeing congressional testimony from the schools’ presidents after they offered excuses and cited free speech amid antisemitic demonstrations on their campuses. “This video has made me so irate I need … Read more
This week, Aaron Dahan, the owner of Caffe Arrone on the Upper East Side, lost his entire staff, who quit over his support of Israel. Instead of shutting down, they were kept alive by volunteers from the community, and as the story went viral, customers from around the world. Here, Dahan tells his story to … Read more
“I’ve been feeling the ’30s are being repeated all over again,” Evelyn Konrad told The Post in the wake of growing antisemitism in America and across the world. The 94-year-old New Yorker was a 9-year-old girl on Nov. 9-10, 1938 — when Nazis ravaged the Jewish community in her hometown of Vienna, Austria, in the notorious … Read more
The flowing blond locks and the rippling muscles are unchanged. Fabio is still the “King of Romance” – the hard-bodied cover boy of soft-core romance novels back in the swinging ’80s and ’90s. But on the cusp of turning 65, he is breaking his lifelong public silence on politics because, he believes, he must warn … Read more
Do you know who Hirsch, Abraham, Schmuel, and Jacob Wonsal were? Shmuel Gelbfisz or Wilhelm Fried Fuchs? And what about Herschel and Bryna Danielovitch, for that matter? When these Jews fled Eastern Europe, they found refuge from pogroms in America, changed their names — and created Hollywood. The Wonsols became the Warner Brothers; Gelbfisz became Sam … Read more
He composed a sincere apology. Oscar-winning makeup artist Kazu Hiro apologized Saturday after the prosthetic nose he created for the upcoming Leonard Bernstein biopic, “Maestro,” caused a crescendo of online backlash — with several users calling the nose a prime example of “Jewface,” reports Deadline. “I wasn’t expecting it to happen,” Hiro, 54, told press at … Read more
Travis Scott showed Kanye West some “Mercy” on Monday night as the rapper invited the controversial, self-proclaimed “genius” onstage for West’s first performance since his antisemitic rants. The “Stronger” rapper surprised Scott’s audience at Circus Maximus in Rome, Italy, where the duo performed their 2021 collaboration “Praise God” off of West’s “Donda.” West, 46, then launched … Read more
Ice Cube tackles a wide range of topics — including Kanye West’s antisemitic comments and his supposed feud with the rapper — in an interview on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” airing Monday at 8 p.m., on TalkTV. “We were always cool,” said Ice Cube of his relationship with West, speaking out about their dynamic for the … Read more
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, widely known as “America’s Rabbi,” is chiming in on his “friend” Roseanne Barr’s recent controversial statement that “nobody died in the Holocaust.” On a recent episode of the podcast “This Past Weekend With Theo Von,” Barr, 70, commented on what “truth” means in America and how platforms can limit discussions of certain topics. “Like … Read more
Pink Floyd’s troubled Waters strikes again. Controversial rock frontman Roger Waters is back in hot water after seemingly cosplaying as a Nazi SS officer — and comparing deceased Al Jazeera journalist Abu Akleh to Anne Frank at a recent concert in Germany. The inflammatory performance, which went down last week at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in … Read more
Two days after anti-Semitic neo-Nazi protesters targeted the musical “Parade,” Mayor Eric Adams took the stage before Thursday night’s performance to declare the theater “is not a place where hate lives.” “We have the largest Jewish population outside of Tel Aviv,” Adams told the audience at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. Adams added, “And when … Read more
Heavy metal band Pantera has had three shows canceled from their forthcoming reunion tour following controversy over a 2016 incident involving singer Phil Anselmo. The shows were dropped from the line-ups of Germany’s Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals earlier this week, as well as a show in Vienna, due to public backlash … Read more
A brass menorah memorialized in a historic photo from Nazi-era Germany has returned to the country for the first time since the Jewish family it belonged to escaped with their lives nearly 90 years ago. And, on Monday night at sundown, the second night of Hanukkah, the candles of the cherished menorah were lit in … Read more
Kanye West was kicked off Twitter on December 2 for posting a swastika inside a Star of David — but it turns out the image is actually the insignia for a UFO-worshiping cult and not necessarily the anti-Semitic symbol that it was widely read to be. The group is the offbeat Raël Movement, which claims to … Read more
Look what he made them do. Fans of embattled rapper Kanye West turned on him by transforming a Reddit page that was dedicated to the “Heartless” singer into an appreciation page for Taylor Swift and as well as posting several Holocaust awareness photos. The disgraced rapper — who infamously interrupted Swift during her 2009 VMA … Read more
They say you are the company you keep — and “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin is calling out what she declares Kanye West’s inexcusable ties to racists and anti-Semites. Hostin made the claim during the show’s lively “Hot Topics” segment on Monday, during which the panel condemned former president Donald Trump for hosting West and … Read more
Ice-T says he doesn’t “really have an opinion” on fellow rapper Kanye West’s recent outbursts, which included vile anti-Semitic rants and hateful remarks. West, 45, this week made a dramatic return to Twitter after being kicked off the platform over a slew of anti-Semitic remarks. When asked if he has something to say on the … Read more
Jerry Seinfeld has given his thoughts on Dave Chappelle’s controversial “Saturday Night Live” monologue. Seinfeld, who is Jewish, addressed the comedic routine — which centered around Kanye West’s antisemitic tirades and “normalized antisemitism” — in a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter. “I did think the comedy was well-executed,” the 68-year-old comedian told the outlet. … Read more