Simply days after Kanye West had a pro-Hitler rant on social media, his Yeezy website is promoting a white T-shirt imprinted with a black swastika.
The 24-time Grammy winner, who legally modified his identify to “Ye” in 2021, reportedly additionally ran a industrial throughout Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl LIX broadcast in choose markets together with Los Angeles. The industrial reportedly featured him in a dentist’s chair saying, “So what’s up, guys? I spent, like, all the cash for the industrial on these new enamel. So as soon as once more, I needed to shoot it on the iPhone. Um, um, um, go to Yeezy.com.”
Guests to the Yeezy website will discover a white T-shirt imprinted with a black swastika on the house web page. The merchandise is described as “HH-01” with no additional data. No different merchandise had been displayed Monday afternoon.
A media request to representatives for Ye was not instantly returned Monday afternoon, nor was a media request to considered one of his attorneys. His “Ye” account on “X” had been deactivated Monday afternoon. His Instagram account was nonetheless accessible, but it surely not had the Yeezy put up from final week.
Executives at Fox Sports activities, which aired the showdown between the Philadelphia Eagle and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark.
Late final week Ye got here underneath hearth for antisemitic social media posts. At the moment, he additionally introduced a Yeezy collaboration with Sean Combs’ Sean John label. Combs, who’s being held within the Manhattan Detention Middle, is going through prices of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and prostitution. The 55-year-old multi-Grammy winner and Sean John clothes label founder has denied any wrongdoing.
In an Instagram put up Monday, the Anti-Defamation League stated the shirt gross sales are “additional proof of Ye’s antisemitism,” and famous how the swastika was “adopted by Hitler as the first emblem of the Nazis.”
The assertion continued, “It galvanized his followers within the twentieth century and continues to threaten and instill worry in these focused by antisemitism and white supremacy. If that wasn’t sufficient, the T-shirt is labeled on Kanye’s website as ‘HH-01,’ which is code for ‘Heil Hitler.’”
Stating that Kanye was tweeting vile antisemitism nonstop since final week, the ADL stated, “There’s no excuse for this sort of habits. Even worse, Kanye marketed his web site in the course of the Tremendous Bowl, amplifying it past his already huge social media viewers.”
The ADL additionally posted details about its “By no means Is Now” occasion in New York Metropolis on March 3 and 4, which it being touted as “the world’s largest summit on antisemitism and hate.”
In response to West’s antisemitic rants on “X” final week, the ADL’s chief govt workplace and nationwide director Jonathan Greenblatt stated in an issued assertion, “Right here we go once more. One other egregious show of antisemitism, racism and misogyny from Ye on his X account this morning. Only a few years in the past, ADL discovered that 30 antisemitic incidents nationwide had been tied to Kanye’s 2022 antisemitic rants.”
Final 12 months the Nationwide Soccer League’s Tremendous Bowl between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers attracted 123.7 million viewers, in accordance with Nielsen. Viewership figures for this 12 months’s sport haven’t but been launched.