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It was thrilling to see Jewish stars standing up to Kanye West – if only they had really done it

A viral video of the campaign, which transpired to be AI-generated, only serves to highlight the deafening silence of the celebrity class

February 12, 2025 14:33
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An AI video featuring numerous Jewish celebrities has gone viral following an antisemitic rant by Kanye West (Image: X)
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A few people were naïve enough to fall for the AI video starring a collection of famous Jewish people wearing t-shirts aimed at Kanye West with a hand sporting a middle finger and a star of David, following the disgraced rapper’s latest antisemitic outburst.

These people were thrilled to see Jews finally hitting back following the latest example of the tsunami of hate we’ve been dealing with since October 7, 2023. The video, to the tune of Hava Nagila, features actress Scarlett Johansson and rapper Drake, Friends stars David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow, Jack Black, Sacha Baron Cohen, Steven Spielberg and Mark Zuckerberg among others all showing they were unambiguous about fighting antisemitism after West’s two-day social media rant, in which he said loved Hitler while advertising a T-shirt he was selling featuring a swastika.

But it wasn’t just the fact that Steven Spielberg has an extra finger or that Sacha Baron Cohen looked suspiciously young that made it obvious to me that this was a deepfake. It was the fact that, in real life, so few celebrities are willing to make even a ripple of sound about what has been happening.

Yes, some of those featured such as Gal Gadot, David Schwimmer and Jerry Seinfeld have spoken up. But the sad fact is Hollywood Jews have stayed more schtum about this rising wave of anti-Jewish hatred than a butcher at a vegan conference.