It’s not what Kanye West says that scares me. It’s that he has 30 million followers who listen to his insanity on top of a cheerleader in the form of the current owner of this platform. No one who says “I love Hitler” should be allowed any oxygen on any social platform (period).
Channels still down. Frightened social media managers run out into the street screaming ‘hashtag content’ at passers-by. Influencers desperately broadcast their skincare routines over walkie talkie. Adults log into Tik Tok for the first time and begin twerking, crying softly.
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick tells the Commons: "A lot of young British Jews are discovering for the first time that their friends don't understand antisemitism, can't recognise it and don't care that they are spreading it."
There is no place for antisemitism in our society. Ahead of Shavuot, I stand with Britain’s Jews who should not have to endure the type of shameful racism we have seen today.