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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Laura Snapes

Kanye West takes out full-page ad apologising for antisemitic behaviour and denying he is a Nazi

Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, leaving the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs in June 2025.
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, leaving the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs in June 2025. Photograph: Larry Neumeister/AP

Kanye West has taken out a full-page advert in the Wall Street Journal apologising for his antisemitic behaviour. “I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,” he wrote. “I love Jewish people.”

In a letter titled “To Those I’ve Hurt”, he attributed his inflammatory actions, including making profoundly offensive statements and selling T-shirts bearing swastikas, to his bipolar-1 disorder, which he said he developed as a result of medical oversight failing to diagnose a frontal-lobe injury sustained in a car crash in 2002.

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