Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter after he tweeted an image of a swastika, hours after he praised Hitler and made antisemitic jokes in an interview with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
The American rapper, 45, who has legally changed his name to Ye, was only allowed back on to the social media platform two weeks ago after he was banned over other antisemitic posts.
Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, confirmed West had been suspended for violating its policies against inciting violence.
He had shared an image of a swastika entwined with a Star of David.
Replying to one Twitter user, who asked him to “fix Kanye”, Musk said: “I tried my best.
“Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.”
West posted a screenshot showing he was locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours on Truth Social, the social media platform created by Donald Trump, the former US president.
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It comes after West stoked further controversy by praising Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during an interview with Jones on Thursday, telling him: “I like Hitler.”
“You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, so you don’t deserve to be called that and demonised,” Jones told West.
“Well, I see good things about Hitler also,” the controversial US singer replied, his face hidden with a black mask.
“I love everyone, and Jewish people are not going to tell me, ‘you can love, you know, us’… every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler.”
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His Twitter account was previously locked after he posted that he was “going death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE” before alleging he wasn’t “antisemitic because black people are actually Jew also”.
He also accused record producer Sean “Diddy” Combs of being controlled by “the Jewish people” in a post on Instagram.
West was locked out of Instagram for 30 days after violating its policies too.
He has also made several other controversial remarks recently, including suggestions slavery was “a choice” and calling the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast”.
His latest Twitter ban also comes after right-leaning social media platform Parler said West would no longer be buying the company.
Parent company Parlement Technologies said in a statement that both parties had “mutually agreed” to terminate the intent of sale in mid-November.
