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Kanye West once again suspended from Twitter after Alex Jones interview

The rapper's account was taken down after he posted an image of a swastika inside a Magen David

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 11: Rapper Kanye West and girlfriend Chaney Jones attend a game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in the fourth quarter at Crypto.com Arena on March 11, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

Kanye West's Twitter account has once again been removed from the site after an outburst on a conspiracy theorist TV channel which saw him praise Hitler and deny the Holocaust.

Shortly after videos of his pro-Hitler rant went viral, West tweeted a swastika inside a star of David to his 18.5m followers.

The tweet was deleted by the platform shortly after and West's account was suspended after Twitter boss Elon Musk said that the post breached the site's rules on incitement to violence.

Earlier on Thursday, on a broadcast on the Infowars channel which featured conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Mr West, and Nick Fuentes, a holocaust-denying white supremacist, the host attempted to defend the hip-hop star, saying: “You’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, so you don’t deserve to be demonised.”

West instead pushed back, saying: “Well, I see good things about Hitler also.

“The Jews… I love everyone, and the Jewish people are not going to tell me, 'You can love us and you can love what we are doing to you with the contracts, and you can love what we are pushing with the pornography”, but this guy [Hitler] that invented highways, invented the very microphone that I use as a musician, you can’t say out loud that this person ever did anything good and I am done with that.”

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