Controversial American rapper Kanye West deactivated his social media account on X Sunday night after days of antisemitic rants, including posts professing love for Nazism and Hitler.
The 47-year-old West, commonly known as Ye, who has a huge following on social media despite his repeated racist outbursts, wrote a farewell post on the site formerly known as Twitter hours after the airing of his Super Bowl shoe brand advertisement.
“I’m logging out of Twitter,” he wrote to his 32 million followers on X. “I appreciate Elon for allowing me to vent. It has been very cathartic to use the world as a sounding board.”
Elon Musk, who owns X, did not publicly reply to West’s tweet or the disappearance of his account as of Sunday night.
American Jewish groups had urged Musk last week to remove West’s account.
West, who has a long history of Jew-hatred, was initially banned from X in October 2022 for earlier antisemitic posts, before being reinstated eight months later.
In the past week alone, some of West’s most controversial posts on X included tweets such as “I’m a Nazi,” and “I love Hitler.” He added that he would never apologize for his “Jewish comments.”
“Kanye West descends deeper and deeper into the abyss of antisemitism,” tweeted Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) last week. “Yet he continues to be invited to the Grammys as if he had done nothing wrong. West should be ostracized for his rabid antisemitism.”
Friends star David Schwimmer said in an Instagram post that “We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate-filled, ignorant bile ... but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk. Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That’s twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence.”
