00:00Kanye West, now known simply as Ye, said some extremely problematic and hateful things about the Jewish community just last
00:06year.
00:07The rapper-producer immediately became a pariah, even losing a reported billion dollars after Adidas cut its easy brand in
00:14response.
00:15But while his comments seem to have cost him dearly, they've cost the Jewish community far more.
00:20According to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League, in the months immediately following his comments,
00:24there were at least 59 anti-Semitic attacks where the perpetrators alluded to Ye's anti-Semitic remarks.
00:30With Insider reporting, one in Los Angeles included a banner on an overpass, which read Kanye was right about the
00:36Jews,
00:37and another in Illinois, where graves were desecrated at a cemetery, with the phrase Kanye was right and swastikas painted
00:43on them.
00:44These account for an unbelievable 36% increase in anti-Semitic attacks over 2021, totaling 3,700 in the U
00:51.S. alone.
00:52That makes 2022 the worst ever recorded by the ADL, with 111 violent attacks against people of Jewish heritage.
00:59With the ADL adding there was an exceptional increase in attacks from organized white supremacist groups.
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