Over the weekend, Instagram and Twitter erased messages by American musician Kanye West after he accused Jews of shutting down “anyone whoever opposes your agenda.”
West, who goes by the nickname Ye, stated he would go “death con 3 on Jewish people,” alluding to a heightened state of alert for the US military, when his account was briefly banned by Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook.
On Saturday, Ye uploaded a screenshot of a text conversation with rapper P. Diddy, in which he tells him: “I’ma use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.” In what seemed to be a preemptive defense, he captioned the post “Jesus was a Jew.”
The tweet was taken down because it “violated Twitter rules,” while Meta did not explicitly state which of his posts led to his account being restricted, though the screenshot in question was deleted from his profile.
This prompted Ye to turn to his inactive Twitter account to post a picture of him with Meta’s owner Mark Zuckerberg, saying “How you gone kick me off Instagram. We used to be n*****.”
Ye then tweeted again, “Who do you think created cancel culture?,” before strangely pivoting to a tweet supporting the Iranian “revolution against 44 years of dictatorship.”
The posts came after Ye was interviewed on conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News, where he alleged that ex-U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner had orchestrated the Abraham Accords between Israel and Gulf states “to make money.”
Many on the right-flank of U.S. politics have leapt to the rapper’s defense, with the House Judiciary of the Republican Party simply tweeted: “Kanye, Elon, Trump.”
Ye was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and admitted to psychiatric care in 2016.
