Friends star David Schwimmer urges Elon Musk to remove Kanye West from X after ‘hate-filled, ignorant’ comments | Ents & Arts News

Friends star David Schwimmer has called on X owner Elon Musk to remove Kanye West from the platform.

It comes after the US rapper, also known as Ye, appeared to write a barrage of posts on his social media account, making offensive comments, including about Jewish people.

Many of the musician’s X posts on Friday centred on the Jewish community, the most severe of which said “I love Hitler” and “I’m a Nazi”.

Another post said: “I’m never apologising for my Jewish comments.”

On Saturday, Schwimmer, who is Jewish, urged Mr Musk to remove West from X because of his “hate-filled, ignorant bile”.

The US actor said on his Instagram account: “This is so 2022.

“We can’t stop a deranged bigot from spewing hate filled, ignorant bile… but we CAN stop giving him a megaphone, Mr. Musk.

“Kanye West has 32.7 million followers on your platform, X. That’s twice as many people than the number of Jews in existence.

“His sick hate speech results in REAL LIFE violence against Jews.

“I don’t know what’s worse, the fact that he identifies as a Nazi (which implies he wants to exterminate ALL marginalized communities including his own) or the fact that there is not sufficient OUTRAGE to remove and ban him from all social media at this point.”

“Silence is complicity,” he added.

A while later, West was posting more offensive comments about Jewish people.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has also called for Mr Musk to remove West from X.

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A week ago, the rapper and his wife Bianca Censori caused a stir at the Grammy Awards, when she wore a seemingly transparent dress on the red carpet as he stood next to her.

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West has had his X account suspended at least twice in the past.

It was suspended in December 2022 after he made antisemitic comments and praised Hitler.

Mr Musk said at the time the account would be suspended after he posted an image that appeared to show a swastika inside a Star of David.

Mr Musk said the suspension was “for incitement to violence”. The account was unsuspended by July 2023.

In October 2022, West’s account was restricted over antisemitic comments but he returned to the platform the following month. In that case, he also made antisemitic remarks that led to Adidas cutting ties with the rapper.