Kanye West, J.D. Vance, and Identifying the Threats to the Jews
At some point, it doesn’t matter how a person becomes your enemy.
January 29, 2026
Kanye West, J.D. Vance, and Identifying the Threats to the Jews
At some point, it doesn’t matter how a person becomes your enemy.
Most of the time, it’s clear who is an enemy of the Jewish people and who is a friend. But what about murkier cases? Abe Greenwald considers two such instances where the signals are mixed, but point in a single direction. One is that of the rapper Kanye West, who over the years has made countless wildly anti-Semitic statements, but who recently took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal to apologize, blaming his psychiatric problems. Greenwald writes:
January 29, 2026
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