An AI-generated video featuring Jewish celebrities calling out rapper Kanye West circulated on social media on Tuesday, two days after the rapper came under fire for a Super Bowl ad directing people to buy white T-shirts with a black swastika.
Over a techno version of “Hava Nagila,” the video features AI-generated deep fakes of some 20 Jewish celebrities, including Adam Sandler, Scarlett Johanson, Steven Spielberg, Drake and Woody Allen. They are all wearing a similar white T-shirt, this time emblazoned with a Hamsa sticking up its middle finger, a Jewish star in the middle and West’s first name right below it.
It ends with Sandler’s deep fake giving the actual middle finger before “Enough Is Enough” appears on the screen.
“It’s time to stop being silent and respond to antisemites like Kanye West in the strongest way possible,” the video creator, Ori Bejerano, an Israeli generative AI expert, wrote on Instagram in Hebrew, according to the New York Post. “We must demand from the social networks to stop giving stage to antisemitism and hatred.”
West recently posted a farewell to X, shortly after a slew of anti-Jewish, racist rants on the platform. These posts included “I’m a Nazi” and “I love Hitler.”
While some have praised the video, many on social media have criticized the stunt for featuring celebrities that they say have been silent on the rise of Jew-hatred since Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
“There’s an AI video going viral of Jewish celebs wearing ‘F Kanye’ shirts and honestly I don’t think we should be posting it,” wrote influencer Zach Sage Fox, known for “man-on-the-street” style content calling out antisemitism. “Almost all these ‘Jewish’ stars have been silent since 10/7 and even now as we’re seeing literal neo-Holocaust images of TORTURED and starved Jews returning from Gaza. This video is a lie and most of these guys don’t deserve a drop of credit for fighting Jew hate.”
“This is an AI-generated video. But it shouldn’t be,” wrote an influencer known as “The Persian Jewess.” “Shame on every Jewish celebrity who stays silent while Kanye West normalizes Jew Hate.”
At least one celebrity, Scarlett Johansson, has previously sued to block the use of her AI-generated likeness in video content.