Meta has restricted the Instagram account of Kanye West after he posted a since-deleted screenshot of a text exchange with Sean “Diddy” Combs in which he made anti-Semitic remarks.
A Meta spokesperson told NBC News Saturday that West had violated Instagram’s rules and guidelines, though it did not specify exactly which posts were deemed a violation. But on Friday, the rapper posted texts that he sent to Combs concerning West’s decision to wear a shirt that read “White Lives Matter” at a fashion show he was hosting.
“This ain’t a game,” West wrote in a text to Diddy on Instagram that had the caption “Jesus is Jew.” “Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me. I told you this was war. Now gone get you some business.”
West has also made anti-Semitic remarks during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News this past week, claiming that Jared Kushner, former President Trump’s son-in-law and grandson of Holocaust survivors, was focused on making money for himself during diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East.
“I just think that’s what they’re about, is making money,” West said. “I don’t think that they have the ability to make anything on their own. I think they were born into money.”
The American Jewish Committee condemned both the deleted post and the Carlson remarks as “dangerous,” saying that West was dealing in “anti-Semitic tropes like greed and control.”
West, meanwhile, responded by posting on Twitter for the first time in over two years. In the tweeted photo of him with Mark Zuckerberg, West blasted the Meta CEO for the suspension, tweeting, “Look at this Mark. How you gone kick me off Instagram. You used to be my n—–.”
