A number of Jewish celebrities are flipping the bird at Kanye West in a new video making the rounds on social media. Well, at least their AI-generated images are.
The video by self-described generative AI expert Ori Bejerano features Jewish personalities including Scarlett Johansson, Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Spielberg, David Schwimmer and Sacha Baron Cohen wearing a white T-shirt emblazoned with a black outlined hand adorned with a Jewish star showing an extended middle finger above the single word 'Kanye'. In the background, a pop-y version of Hava Negilah plays.
The video concludes with Adam Sandler, wearing the T-shirt, actually making the obscene gesture.
The video is a reaction to West's use of a 30-second Super Bowl commercial to promote the sale of a white T-shirt with a swastika on it, the only item for sale on his Yeezy sales platform on Shopify.
Last weekend, the American musician posted a series of antisemitic messages on the X social media platform, which led to the closure of his X account yesterday on Sunday. "I'm a Nazi, I love Hitler," West wrote on Friday. In other tweets, he claimed that he would "never trust Jews" and "would not work with Jews." When the photos of the hostages from Gaza began to arrive on Saturday morning, his messages took on additional weight and were harder to ignore.
Bejerano, who sells original T-shirt designs online (including one that reads "Keep calm and destroy Hamas"), posted the video on social media platforms including X, where he addressed West's actions.
"In recent days, Kanye West has once again crossed every possible red line. The man who previously declared "I am a Nazi", praised Hitler, and spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, used one of the biggest stages in the world – a Super Bowl commercial broadcast – to spread antisemitism and hate," Bejerano wrote.
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"This is not a mistake, not a gimmick, and not 'artistic provocation.' This is a deliberate incitement against Jews. This is the normalization of Nazi symbols in front of tens of millions of people. This is a call for violence disguised as pop culture," he also wrote in the post.
Bejerano concluded: "It’s time to stop staying silent and fight back against antisemites like Kanye West in the strongest way possible. Social media platforms must stop giving a stage to antisemitism and hate. We must apply economic and public pressure and remove people like West from every platform they use to spread their poison. We must stop treating Kanye West as a spectacle or a gimmick – he is dangerous, and it's time the world treats him as such."