Did Kanye West Extend Olive Branch To Jewish Community Amid Return To Twitter?

Kanye West has returned… to Twitter.

The rapper made a subtle yet poignant re-debut on the platform.

His return comes just one day after former president Donald Trump’s account was reinstated.

Coincidence… I think not.

Kanye’s first tweet since getting his account temporarily blocked earlier this month was, “Testing Testing Seeing if my Twitter is unblocked.”

Hours later he tweeted, “Shalom : ).”

“Shalom” is used as salutation by Jewish people at meeting or parting, meaning “peace.”

You will recall the reason his Twitter account was temporarily blocked was due in part to his anti-Semitic comments.

So, could his use of a Jewish salutation mean he’s making a peace offering with the Jewish community?

Possibly.

It’s a waiting game at this point, and we will have to see what else he tweets or says in interviews.

Earlier this month, the rapper-turned-fashion designer announced he was going on a “cleanse.”

On Thursday, November 3rd, the “Donda” rapper revealed “I’m not talking to nooobody for a month.”

The tweet was accompanied by a screenshot which read, “I’m taking a 30 day CLEANSE. A VERBAL FAST. NO ALCHOL. NO ADULT FILMS. NO INTERCOURSE. IN GOD WE PRAISE, AMEN.”

However, his vows didn’t end there.

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Kanye vowed to keep his Twitter account active writing, “BUT MY TWITTER STILL LIT.”

Obviously, it hasn’t been a month since he announced said cleanse, which could make for a very interesting rest of November.

Many Twitter users and followers commented on Kanye’s tweet, “We don’t care.”

Others urged him to “Make better music.”

His cleanse comes after a month-long anti-Semitic tirade which got him temporarily banned from Instagram and Twitter, lost business deals with Balenciaga, Gap, Adidas, J.P. Morgan Chase, and his talent agency CAA.

In early October, the “Jesus Is King” rapper threatened to go “deathcon 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE” in a tweet.

He followed the tweet up with several national televised interviews where he double and tripled down on his anti-Jewish remarks.

In an interview with Piers Morgan, the former billionaire was asked, “Do you now regret saying, ‘Deathcon 3 on Jewish people?’ Are you sorry you said that?”

He replied, “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.”

Piers said Kanye’s “deathcon 3” comment is “as racist as anything you say you’ve been through and any pain you’ve experienced.”

“Racism is racism. You know that, I think, don’t you?” Morgan continued to press Kanye.

He shot back, “Yes, that’s why I said it. I fought fire with fire. I’m not here to get hosed down. That’s a different type of freedom fighter.”

Kanye seemed to take a step back from his defensive stance to somewhat apologize.

Talk about contradiction.

“You know, I will say I’m sorry for the people that I hurt with the defcon [comment] — the confusion that I caused. I feel like I caused hurt and confusion,” he said. “And I’m sorry for the families of the people that had nothing to do with the trauma that I had been through.”

This interview came soon after Kanye’s News Nation interview with Chris Cuomo.

During that particular interview, the rapper went on a rant about how a “Jewish underground media mafia” is ruining his career.

Ironically enough, in the same interview he said he doesn’t believe in the term, “antisemite,” because “I classify as a Jew also, so I actually can’t be an antisemite.”

Kanye claims Jewish media executives sabotaged his “White Lives Matter” show during Paris Fashion Week.

He also hates the fact that they call him a “rapper” and not a “billionaire.”