Kanye West once said that he believes Jewish people were “holding him back”, according to an interview in a new documentary.The statement was made in the new BBC documentary The Trouble With KanYe.
Fronted by investigative journalist Mobeen Azhar, it explores “the complex journey that led Ye to become one of the most famous and creatively successful artists of his generation, but more recently, to condemnation and notoriety”, including his descent into anti-Semitism.The documentary features various interviews with people who have interacted with West.
One of these is with tech entrepreneur Alex Klein, who worked on West’s last album ‘Donda 2’. He said that West had told him he was “exactly like the other Jews,” and when Klein asked him if he really believed that all Jews were working together to hold him back, West answered: “Yes.”West has built up a large catalogue of incidents involving anti-Semitic statements in recent months.
His spate of anti-semitic comments began when he tweeted that he was going to go “death con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE” back in October 2022.West was declared ‘Antisemite Of The Year’ by the watchdog group StopAntisemitism in response to his anti-Semitic comments in the last few months.
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