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Sun Oct 30, 2022, 01:56 PM Oct 2022

(Jewish Group) Is Kanye's antisemitic vitriol seeping into our schools and streets? [View all]

And in the third week of Kanye West’s antisemitic meltdown, Adidas, the sneaker company literally founded by Nazis, cut ties with him despite a projected loss of $250 million; The Gap pulled his products off store shelves; producers scrapped a documentary about his life; and Madame Tussauds stuffed its wax visage of the rapper into storage.

Oh, and the superintendent of my local school district put out a statement of condemnation.

If it seems a bit too late, coming a full 18 days after West — who legally changed his name to Ye — was banned from Twitter for declaring war on Jews, don’t worry, it was also way too little. The short email inexplicably did not name West/Ye, vaguely expressed concern that “many students have been talking about the situation,” and obfuscated the fact that a few days earlier, a Jewish mom had announced at a public meeting that two middle-school students had recently greeted her daughter at recess with a Nazi salute.

“As some of you may have heard, a well-known entertainer and entrepreneur has made several hateful, antisemitic statements this month,” the superintendent wrote. “We do not tolerate any form of antisemitic behavior — whether it’s expressed in verbal or online bullying, graffiti, jokes, or other kinds of activity.”

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This ties in well with the recently posted "Opinion: American Jews start to think the unthinkable" by mahatmakanejeeves in Editorials & Other Articles and a mirror copy with a link to the one I just provided by JudyM, here in the Jewish Group. to both!

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