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‘Stop giving a megaphone to a deranged bigot’: David Schwimmer asks Elon Musk to ban Kanye West

Schwimmer, who is Jewish, shared a series of pictures on his Instagram handle featuring West. The first picture of the rapper’s posts on X had "I AM A NAZI" written over it.
February 09, 2025 / 18:58 IST
Recently, West and Censori raised eyebrows at the 2025 Grammys when the Australian architect and model posed for photographers wearing a sheer minidress. (Image credit: BBC)

Friends star David Schwimmer has appealed to X owner Elon Musk to ban rapper Kanye West from the platform over his recent anti-Semitic comments and for claiming that he has "dominion" over his wife, Bianca Censori.

Schwimmer, who is Jewish, shared a series of pictures on his Instagram handle featuring West. The first picture of the rapper’s posts on X had "I AM A NAZI" written over it. The 58-year-old actor detailed in his caption how the musician’s comments can affect the Jewish community and incite violence.

"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 as 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," Schwimmer wrote on Saturday.

A day later, West once again went on an anti-Semitic rant on X.

"THE JEWS CLAIM TO BE SO OPPRESSED THEN TRY TO OPPRESS ME AND ELON’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH," read one of his posts.

The 47-year-old rapper has often made headlines for his controversial statements on social media. Not only has he expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler, but he also urged US President Donald Trump to free rapper Sean John Combs, who has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women.

Recently, West and Censori raised eyebrows at the 2025 Grammys when the Australian architect and model posed for photographers wearing a sheer minidress.

Back in 2022, West’s X account was temporarily suspended after he posted a symbol of the swastika, which was the primary emblem of Hitler’s Nazi party. His account was restored after eight months on the microblogging site.

(Apart from the headline, the content of the copy is wire-generated)

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first published: Feb 9, 2025 06:55 pm

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