The social network Twitter blocked, on Sunday, the account of American rapper Kanye West, following a message considered anti-Semitic.
In the tweet, deleted for violating the rules of that platform, West threatened “the Jews” and wrote: “you have been playing with me and trying to exclude anyone who opposes your agenda”.
The ‘rapper’, who has just returned to the social network after a two-year absence, also noted that he cannot be an anti-Semite “because black people are also actually Jews”.
Twitter told several US media that it had blocked West’s account, without saying for how long, on the grounds that there had been a violation of usage policies.
Absent from the social network since November 2020, the artist had returned to Twitter this weekend, after also being suspended from the Instagram platform, for suggesting that ‘rapper’ Sean Combs, better known as Diddy, was being controlled. by Jews.
West’s comments were widely criticized by numerous social media users, including political leaders and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), an influential organization fighting anti-Semitism.
The return to Twitter of the well-known musician, who is now called Ye and has more than 31 million followers on the platform, was celebrated by billionaire Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying the social network for 44 billion dollars (about 45 billion euros).
Last week, the ‘rapper’ was at the center of another controversy for having used, during a fashion show in Paris, a ‘t-shirt’ with the message “White Lives Matter”, a ‘slogan’ often used by White supremacists in response to the “Black Lives Matter” anti-racism movement.
