During the Super Bowl, rapper Kayne West promoted his website, which was selling swastika T-shirts, which The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called ‘vile antisemitism’.
Shopify, which hosts his shop, immediately took the site down.
Ye, as he prefers to be called, also issued a torrent of anti-Semitic and offensive posts over the weekend.
The Anti-Defamation League issued a response on Monday.
“As if we needed further proof of Kanye’s antisemitism, he chose to put a single item for sale on his website — a T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika,” the ADL said. “The swastika is the symbol adopted by Hitler as the primary emblem of the Nazis. It galvanized his followers in the 20th century and continues to threaten and instill fear in those targeted by antisemitism and white supremacy. If that wasn’t enough, the T-shirt is labeled on Kanye’s website as ‘HH-01,’ which is code for ‘Heil Hitler.’
So far, his Talent agency has dropped him, and his antisemitic remarks have led to the departure of some team members.