{"id":1237152,"date":"2022-10-28T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/adidas-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-over-anti-semitism\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T11:10:13","slug":"adidas-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-over-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/adidas-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west-over-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas Cuts Ties With Kanye West Over Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kanye West<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clothing giant, Adidas, has cut ties with rapper Ye, known as Kanye West, saying it does\u00a0\u201cnot tolerate anti-Semitism and any other sort of hate speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adidas\u2019s Yeezy brand collaboration with Mr. West was put under review, after he showed a \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d T-shirt design at Paris Fashion Week.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, the rapper posted anti-Semitic comments on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis products will be pulled from sale with immediate effect,\u201d said Adidas.<\/p>\n<p>The sportswear brand has previously said the Yeezy brand collaboration with Ye was one of the most successful in the company\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting the partnership means Adidas will make a net loss of \u00a3217m in 2022 as a result, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Ye, who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, had previously accused Adidas of stealing his designs in a now-deleted Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Tuesday,\u00a0Adidas wrote: \u201cAdidas does not tolerate anti-Semitism and any other sort of hate speech. Ye\u2019s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company\u2019s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>BBC<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West \u00a0 Clothing giant, Adidas, has cut ties with rapper Ye, known as Kanye West, saying it does\u00a0\u201cnot tolerate anti-Semitism and any other sort of hate speech.\u201d Adidas\u2019s Yeezy brand collaboration with Mr. West was put under review, after he showed a \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d T-shirt design at Paris Fashion Week. Days later, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6897,28157,6022,1645,2894,916],"class_list":["post-1237152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adidas","tag-antisemitism","tag-cuts","tag-kanye","tag-ties","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}