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.
I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022
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.”