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By Kanye West His recent apology for anti-Semitic comments he made in the past was unconvincing Peter Rosenbergwho called it “authentic”.
Radio and TV personality Peter Rosenberg isn't a fan of Kanye West's recent apology to the Jewish community that he made publicly last Tuesday (December 26) on his Instagram account. The apology, written in Hebrew, surprised the audience, but Rosenberg expressed his doubts. “I thought, I wonder what the sample is that Kanye has to try to clear before Friday,” he said while appearing on TMZ Live.
“We all know Kanye has been slow to handle the album stuff and I'm just wondering if something was forced and someone said, 'Hey, this sample isn't being deleted unless he apologizes,'” HOT 97 continued, citing the issue the rapper faced on the Vultures' track with Ty Dolla $ign.When asked by Harvey Levin if he thought West was being honest, Rosenberg he answered“No part of me believes his apology.”
Rosenberg added: “I totally agree, by the way, that the Hebrew part was so offensive, intentionally or unintentionally, as if American Jews can read Hebrew without vowels. Well, bro, it's just another offensive thing here. One thing we know about Kanye, is a lot of things. Inauthentic is not one of them and this comment was so authentic it lets you know it couldn't actually be from him.
The YES commentator would conclude: “All this Hitler fascination, this is now a perennial issue. We have been talking for many years now. Honestly, the sad thing is that I don't think there's an apology out there that could make people feel better and forget about it.”
West's statement comes after months of his anti-Semitic comments beginning in October 2022 on X, formerly Twitter. In the time since the initial statement, his business partnerships with The Gap, Adidas and Balenciaga have been discontinued. The “Can't Tell Me Nothing” artist would also make an appearance on right-wing media executive Alex Jones' InfoWars podcast and infamously claim that he “saw good things about [Adolf] Hitler.”
