Kanye West was suspended from Twitter and charged with “inciting violence” for offensive tweets.
The American rapper, who now calls himself Ye, has published a series of ragged tweets. One of them seemed to show a symbol combining the Swastika and the Jewish star.
One user asked Elon Musk, Twitter’s new head, to “fix Kanye.”
Musk tweeted that West “broke our code of incitement to violence.”
“Account is suspended,” Musk said on Twitter.
Also on Thursday, covering his face with a mask, West praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and gossiped about sin, pornography and the devil during an interview with American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
A director of the British Holocaust Education Trust called West’s comments “repulsive and unhealthy”.
“These comments, coupled with their high profile and huge following, have dangerous consequences,” said executive director Karen Pollock.
In recent months, West has sparked a string of anti-Semitic and racist comments and controversies that have led clothing giant Adidas to cut his ties with the rapper.
West was blocked from his Twitter and Instagram accounts after posting anti-Semitic messages in October. Both platforms removed West’s post, accusing rapper Diddy of being controlled by Jews, and saying the star violated their policies on hate speech.
These publications were in response to a fashion show at Paris Fashion Week in which she wore a T‑shirt with the slogan “White Lives Matter”.
The American Anti-Defamation League called the phrase “hate speech”.
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