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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nBy Bryan Pietsch<\/a>Updated October 10, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. EDT|Published October 10, 2022 at 7:35 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Twitter confirmed Sunday that it had removed a tweet by Ye, the musician and fashion designer formerly known as Kanye West, and temporarily prohibited him from further posts on the platform, as the fallout from his recent antisemitic comments on social media continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His account, @kanyewest<\/a>, was \u201clocked for violating Twitter\u2019s policies,\u201d a Twitter spokesperson said in an email Sunday, declining to state which policy he had violated. The account shows that a recent tweet violated Twitter rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though the tweet is no longer visible on his account, screenshots shared widely on social media show that Ye had said he would go \u201cdeath con 3\u201d on \u201cJEWISH PEOPLE,\u201d an apparent reference to Defcon, the U.S. military defense readiness system. In the tweet, he used antisemitic tropes and said he could not be antisemitic \u201cbecause black people are actually Jew also.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The action by Twitter comes after Instagram removed a post from his account and similarly locked his account temporarily. A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Instagram formerly known as Facebook, said in an email that the platform \u201cdeleted content from @kanyewest for violating our policies and placed a restriction on the account. We may place restrictions on accounts that repeatedly break our rules, for example, we may temporarily restrict them from posting, commenting, or sending DMs.\u201d Screenshots of the post show that Ye had posted an apparent conversation with the rapper Diddy, employing antisemitic tropes to allege that he was being influenced by Jewish people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What Kanye West and Tucker Carlson show with struggle for power<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n After Ye was restricted by Instagram, he took to Twitter, in a tweet still visible on the platform, to criticize Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, writing: \u201cLook at this Mark. How you gone kick me off instagram,\u201d along with a photo of the two together in a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Saturday posts came shortly after Ye tweeted a photo of a baseball cap labeled with \u201c2024,\u201d an apparent reference to the 2024 presidential election. The tweets were his first since 2020, when he had tweeted, \u201cKANYE 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n His social media posts have also garnered attention from political and societal figures, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) admonishing him in a tweet late Sunday, writing: \u201cThere is absolutely no room in this country or world for antisemitism. It is important to see how harmful + dangerous Kanye\u2019s words are \u2014 not only to our Jewish brothers, sisters, & siblings, but also to our collective society at large. We must reject this \u2026 wherever we see it. \u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some on the right have come to defend Ye in recent days. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX who has been engaged in a legal battle over his reneged offer, and subsequent reversal<\/a>, to buy Twitter, responded to his tweet about Zuckerberg, writing: \u201cWelcome back to Twitter, my friend!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u2018Jeenyuhs\u2019 documentary series makes us miss the old Kanye West<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) tweeted a link to an MSNBC blog post about Ye\u2019s recent controversies, criticizing \u201cthe media,\u201d which he said had \u201cgone after Kanye for his new fashion line, his independent thinking & for having opposing thoughts from the norm of Hollywood.\u201d Rokita followed up by saying that his post \u201cwas specifically and clearly aimed at the hypocrisy of the media and Hollywood elites, not anything to do with other comments. I have an obvious, clear and substantial Congressional and public record of being 100% supportive of the Jewish community and Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Kanye West is the latest minority to learn that while you may trash White people[this rapper and supporter of Donald Trump doesn’t] criticism of the most privileged minority, Jews, will land you up to your ass in alligators. The Silicon … Continue reading