North Texas rabbi reacts to antisemitic remarks by Kanye West

ROCKWALL, Texas — Adidas has joined a lot of firms ending their partnerships with the rapper previously often called Kanye West after he made a sequence of offensive remarks.

Ye made antisemitic feedback in current interviews and on social media, together with a Twitter put up that mentioned he would go “demise con 3 on Jewish People.”

“Antisemitism says something about antisemites,” Rabbi Moishy Kalmenson of Rockwall informed WFAA.

Moishy mentioned his synagogue is the primary ever in Rockwall. People typically inform him he is the primary Jew they’ve ever met. 

He loves these moments when he can present his neighborhood precisely who the Jewish individuals are.

“Otherwise, you’re relying on social media, maybe? There’s so much room for misinformation,” Moishy mentioned.

Ye has twice as many Twitter followers as there are Jews on the planet. He mentioned antisemitic rhetoric at all times wants to be condemned, however he does not fear an excessive amount of about Ye’s attain.

“We are a miraculous people, it doesn’t make sense we’re around that we survived all this antisemitism,” he mentioned, referring to many years of discrimination towards Jews.

“But the fact is we haven’t just survived, we’ve thrived.”

Moishy informed WFAA he encourages North Texas Jews to apply proudly, particularly when antisemitism is on the rise. 

“The best response to something like that is, hey I’m going to wear my star of David. I’m going to light my Shabbat candles,” he mentioned.

“We don’t retreat. We don’t cower or hide our Judaism in response to attacks like this. We stand tall, we stand proud.”