Fawning remarks about Adolf Hitler and vituperative attacks on Jews made by Kanye West during an unsettling interview with Alex Jones of Infowars earned unusually sharp condemnation from Michael Herzog, the Israeli ambassador to the United States, who charged the world-famous entertainer and fashion icon with “hateful incitement, which could lead to violence and the death of Jews in horrifying incidents.”

West, who now goes by the mononym Ye, appeared on Infowars — the notorious website that made Jones the nation’s leading conspiracy theorist — Thursday morning, wearing a heavy coat and a black ski mask that obscured his entire face.

The interview lasted for three hours. Also present was Holocaust denier and white supremacist Nick Fuentes. At one point, Laura Loomer — a far-right, pro-Trump figure who is Jewish and has proclaimed herself a “proud Islamophobe” — called in to the show to denounce “the plague of cancel culture.”

In October, a Connecticut court found Jones liable for nearly $1 billion in damages for making false claims about the 2012 mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, in which 20 children and seven adults, including the shooter, were killed. He has often spread conspiracy theories based on longstanding antisemitic tropes.

However, even Jones seemed a little taken aback at times by the vehemence with which West defended the genocidal Nazi leader responsible for World War II and the Holocaust. "Every human being has something of...

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