Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, issued a public apology Monday for his previous antisemitic behavior \u2014 by paying for a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n
Addressed \u201cTo Those I\u2019ve Hurt,\u201d the apology was for Ye\u2019s history of \u201cimpulsive\u201d behavior, including using antisemitic imagery and describing himself as Nazi, the Washington Post <\/a>reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI am not a Nazi or antisemite,\u201d Ye said in the apology. \u201cI love Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n Ye had made antisemitic and hateful comments beginning in 2022 Beginning in 2022, the Post said, including denying the Holocaust, proclaiming he was a Nazi and saying he loved Adolf Hitler during an appearance that year on Alex Jones\u2019s \u201cInfowars.\u201d He later sold T-shirts on his website bearing the swastika symbol and advertising it during the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, the Post reported that in February, a female Jewish former employee accused him of making a slew of antisemitic and sexist comments in a lawsuit, and in May, he released a song entitled \u201cHeil Hitler,\u201d which sampled a speech from Hitler.<\/p>\n He attributes his previous behavior to his bipolar diagnosis and an undiagnosed brain injury. He sustained damage to the right frontal lobe of his brain after a car accident in 2002, but the injury had gone undiagnosed until 2023.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the difficult aspects of having bipolar type-1 are the disconnect moments \u2014 many of which I still cannot recall \u2014 that lead to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body experience,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did, though.\u201d<\/p>\n In the advertisement, Ye also apologized to the Black community, as he said that is the \u201cfoundation of who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMy words as a leader in my community have real global impact and influence,\u201d he said. \u201cIn my mania, I lost sight of that.\u201d<\/p>\n Ye said he is utilizing medication, therapy, exercise and clean living to find his \u201cnew baseline and new center.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness,\u201d the letter ends. \u201cI write today simply to ask for your patience and understanding as I find my way home.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source triblive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, issued a public apology Monday for his previous antisemitic behavior \u2014 by paying for a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. Addressed \u201cTo Those I\u2019ve Hurt,\u201d the apology was for Ye\u2019s history of \u201cimpulsive\u201d behavior, including using antisemitic imagery and describing himself as Nazi, the Washington […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ye-formerly-Kanye-West-releases-public-apology-for-antisemitic-behavior.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251603,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251601\/revisions\/2251603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}