Ari Emanuel Condemns Kanye West, GOP, Conspiracy Theories & “Normalization Of White Supremacy, Antisemitism & Racism” In America

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Ari Emanuel returned to his hometown today to decry “the virus of antisemitism and hate and division” that is “spreading and attacking the foundations of our culture.” In an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune, the Windy City-born Endeavor CEO called out the “cartoonish Kanye clown show,” Dave Chappelle, the Republican Party and Donald Trump for “the normalization of white supremacy, antisemitism and racism” in American society. “In the last year, we’ve seen how antisemitic conspiracies from the far right about Jewish control of politics, finance and Hollywood have become mainstreamed,” the former agent to the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host wrote (see the full op-ed below) “So yes, keep our eye on the bigger picture — of course condemn cartoonish antisemitism and racism and hate, but also condemn more subtle and insidious forms of conspiracy theories that have no basis in fact,” Emanuel concluded in the op-ed.

Today’s piece by the sharp-elbowed exec, who in 2006 decried a drunken anti-Semitic rant by future WME client Mel Gibson, follows a Financial Times op-end that Emanuel wrote back in October pushing agencies, business and sponsors to cut ties with Kanye West after the man now legally known as Ye went on a vile antisemitic social media tirade. “Those who continue to do business with West are giving his misguided hate an audience,” said Emanual in the FT piece.” There should be no tolerance anywhere for West’s anti-Semitism.” Of course, that was before former CAA client West went on Alex Jones’ InfoWars to praise Adolf Hitler and Nazis at the beginning of this month.

West soon afterwards posted a tweet an image of a swastika inside a Star of David on the Elon Musk-owned Twitter – – a move that caused even the GOP to delete