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What public figures have said or done about Jews. Each row gives the date, the place, their words in full, and a link to the post, the video or the recording it came from — so you can read it yourself before you buy a ticket, stream a record or cast a vote.

highlighted — our mark, on the part objected to

Ye (Kanye West)David Shankbone · Public domain ↗
Ye (Kanye West)10 Feb 2025

The store was stripped to a single product, listed as HH-01 in three sizes — that much is on the archived storefront, which anyone can open. The item was reported by CNBC, Deadline and others to be a white T-shirt printed with a black swastika; the product photograph did not survive in the capture, so that part rests on the reporting rather than on the archive. Shopify removed the store on 11 February, saying the merchant had violated its terms.

musician and clothing retaileryeezy.com, his own store, days after a Super Bowl advertisement directed viewers to it.
the storefront · archived 11 Feb 2025; one product, HH-01 ↗no response on record ↗ Shopify took the store down on 11 February 2025, saying the merchant had violated its terms.checked 2026-10-16
Kyrie IrvingErik Drost · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Kyrie Irving3 Nov 2022

Asked directly whether he holds antisemitic beliefs, he did not say that he does not. The post itself was deleted; these are his own words at the press conference that followed, which the Nets cited that same day in suspending him for at least five games for a failure to disavow antisemitism.

I cannot be antisemitic if I know where I come from.
basketball playerA press conference at the Brooklyn Nets, after he posted a link to the film Hebrews to Negroes.
original deleted — as reported by Sports Illustrated ↗ CNN ↗apologized ↗ He apologised later the same day, condemned antisemitism, and his suspension was lifted on 20 November 2022.checked 2026-10-18
Ye (Kanye West)David Shankbone · Public domain ↗
Ye (Kanye West)8 Oct 2022

He wrote that he would go “death con 3” on Jewish people. Twitter removed the post and locked the account; the original is gone, so the wording below is as the outlets named reported it.

I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE
musicianHis own account on Twitter, since deleted.
original deleted — as reported by NBC News ↗ Billboard ↗deleted it ↗ Twitter removed the post and locked the account for violating its policy.checked 2026-10-18
WileyClozone · CC0 ↗
Wiley24 Jul 2020

In a long run of posts he compared Jews to the Ku Klux Klan and claimed Jews are treated differently in prisons, hospitals and police stations. Twitter suspended him permanently, Facebook and Instagram banned him, his manager and his distributor dropped him, and British police opened an investigation. The posts are gone; the wording is as the outlets named reported it.

in prison jewish people get looked after differently too everyone else and hospitals and police stations
rapper, a founder of grimeHis own accounts on Twitter and Instagram, since removed.
original deleted — as reported by Variety ↗ JTA ↗ Deadline ↗apologized ↗ He later said his comments should not have been directed at all Jews and apologised for generalising, while denying he is racist.checked 2026-10-18
Francesca AlbaneseFotografía oficial de la Presidencia de Colombia - Andrea Puentes · Public domain ↗
Francesca Albanese31 Jul 2014

Writing about Western governments standing aside, she attributed the American position to Jewish control. The post is no longer reachable, so the wording is as the sources below report it — the Anti-Defamation League, and the writer Peter Beinart, who argues against the campaign to remove her from her post and quotes the same sentence.

America and Europe, one of them subjugated by the Jewish lobby and the other by the sense of guilt about the Holocaust, remain on the sidelines and continue to condemn the oppressed.
UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territoriesAn open letter she wrote and posted to her own Facebook page, during that summer's Gaza war. She took up the UN post in 2022.
original deleted — as reported by Anti-Defamation League ↗ Peter Beinart ↗apologized ↗ She apologised at the time, said she had not recognised that the language was offensive, and said she would not use it again. She has since said she regrets the remark.checked 2026-10-20
Roger WatersEddie Berman · CC BY 2.0 ↗
Roger Waters6 Dec 2013

Asked why more musicians would not join his campaign to boycott Israel, Waters attributed power over the American music industry to “the Jewish lobby.” He went on to say that people in the industry had told him they were afraid of being punished — he used an obscenity — if they stood with him publicly, and that some had asked whether he feared for his life.

The Jewish lobby is extraordinary powerful here and particularly in the industry that I work in, the music industry and in rock’n roll as they say.
musician, co-founder of Pink FloydAn interview with Frank Barat, published in CounterPunch.
the interview · CounterPunch, archived 8 Dec 2013; the live page blocks readers ↗disputes this account ↗ He has consistently denied antisemitism, saying his objection is to the Israeli state and to Zionism rather than to Jews, and has called the charge against him a smear.checked 2026-10-16
Mel GibsonGeorges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
Mel Gibson28 Jul 2006

The arrest report recorded him asking the deputy whether he was Jewish and saying that Jews are responsible for every war. The department confirmed to Deadline that its reports contained the remarks. The report itself is not public; the wording is as the outlets named reported it, and he did not dispute having said it.

The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.
actor and directorTo a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, during a drink-driving arrest in Malibu.
original deleted — as reported by Deadline ↗ CNN ↗ CBC ↗apologized ↗ He apologised to the Jewish community for what he called vitriolic and harmful words said in a moment of insanity.checked 2026-10-18
Mahathir Mohamadkremlin.ru · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Mahathir Mohamad16 Oct 2003

He told the assembled heads of government that Jews rule the world through others. The summit’s own website is long gone, but the line is reproduced verbatim in the United States Congressional Record, in the House resolution that condemned it — a public document rather than a news report.

The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million, but today, the Jews rule the world by proxy.
then Prime Minister of MalaysiaOpening the summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Kuala Lumpur.
original deleted — as reported by Congressional Record, H.Res.409 ↗ CNN ↗ Taipei Times ↗stood by it He has defended the remarks repeatedly in the years since.checked 2026-10-18