Lawyer Camille Vasquez Quits Kanye | MRC Trashes Finished Kanye Documentary | Anna Wintour Says Bye | Wassup Adidas?

Images: Top: neo-Nazis held a swastika burning following a white supremacist rally in the city of Newnan, Georgia, on April 24, 2018; Middle: Kanye West’s recent tweet about going death-con 3 on Jews; Bottom: The antisemitic Goyim Defense League hung a banner over a busy highway 405 in Los Angeles over the weekend, citing Kanye West’s hateful and prolific recent comments about Jews.

Breaking: The former lead educational consultant for Kanye West’s unaccrecdited K-8 Donda school, Tamar Andrews, directs and teaches early education at two prominent Jewish institutions in Los Angeles. Allison Samek, president of Temple Isaiah of Los Angeles, told ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ in a statement: “Dr. Andrews immediately resigned from Donda Academy following Ye West’s tweet. Her last day was October 11, 2022 as she felt she could no longer support the organization.”

These are the people Kanye works with at his school — the Jews he is trashing. Unbelievable. Kanye West is a very unnerving, unsettling guy. I wish he would take his medication. As the daughter of a seriously bi-polar person, he really scares me. Read more about BJE Builders of Jewish education.

TMZ reports Monday that Kanye West’ brief working relationship with Johnny Depp’s attorney, Camille Vasquez, has ended. After Kanye became more strident over the weekend in his refusal to back down on his anti-Semitic diatribes against Jews, Vasquez informed her firm Brown Rudnick that she would no longer work with West.

TMZ reports that Brown Rudnick — hired to represent him in business affairs — still attempted to work with him, but only on the condition that he publicly retract his hateful and anti-Semitic words.

The decision came as LA Nazis gave salutes and hung a banner over the 405 highway near Beverly Hills, a banner honoring their man Kanye West’s comments about Jews. West would not consider an apology and fired Brown Rudnick. Note that the Nazis have hung banners before but having Kanye’s name to callout really got them a lot of attention.

Hollywood Backbone on West Gets Firmer

In recent days, the fashion and media industries are getting more backbone, when the topic is dealing with Kanye West [aka Ye]. On Sunday, Oct. 23, Jeremy Zimmer, who leads Hollywood agency UTA, sent a companywide email titled “Rise of Anti Semitism and Hate,” writing that Kanye West’s recent anti-Semetic comments “embolden others to amplify their vile beliefs.”

The UTA CEO added: “We can’t support hate speech, bigotry or anti-Semitism. Please support the boycott of Kanye West.”

Today, Oct. 24, film and television studio MRC announced that it will not release a finished documentary on Kanye West, following his anti-Semetic comments. “This morning, after discussion with our filmmakers and distribution partners, we made the decision not to proceed with any distribution for our recently completed documentary about Kanye West,” CEO Modi Wiczyk, CEO Asif Satchu, and COO Scott Tenley wrote in a joint statement sent to the media. “We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform.”

Asked if MRC had submitted the Kanye West documentary to festivals, executives responded that “all activities are being pulled.”

In their open letter, the MRC leaders wrote that West has helped “mainstream” antisemitism in the current climate. “The silence from leaders and corporations when it comes to Kanye or antisemitism, in general, is dismaying but not surprising. What is new and sad, is the fear Jews have about speaking out in their own defense,” Wiczyk, Satchu and Tenley wrote.

Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor at Columbia's Teachers College, arrived Wednesday at her office to find that it had been defaced by anti-Semitic symbols and language. (Rya Inman/Columbia Daily Spectator) (Rya Inman/Columbia Daily Spectator)

The MRC executives continued by addressing the reality of tensions that are impacting Jewish lives on America’s university campuses. MRC wrote that “two important lies” have powered current antisemitic rhetoric: “the lie that Jews are evil and conspire to control the world for their own gain” and the “pernicious, terrible use of false logic” that “If you support Israel’s right to exist, you are a racist. If you are a Jew, you support Israel’s right to exist. Therefore, if you are Jewish, you are a racist.”

MRC doesn’t mention Palestine and the settlements and even the conflicts in East Jerusalem, the sector of Jerusalem that was held by Jordan during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Many non-Jewish American university students have become very bold in their condemnations of American Jews of every age, over the worsening situation every year between the Israelis and Palestinians.

It’s a well-known fact that large numbers of American Jews are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But young Jews on college campuses are being taunted to renounce their support for Israel, putting them in a totally untenable position. This is the general backstory on the MRC comments.

On Saturday, Oct. 22, Bob Gersh, head of the agency founded by his father in the 1960s, expressed support for Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel’s Emanuel call upon companies like Apple and Spotify, like Adidas, who is currently reviewing their contractual relationship with West, and other business partners who raise revenue off of Kanye West, to suspend their relationships.

Anna Wintour Says Enough to Kanye

In the world of fashion, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020 since 2020, Anna Wintour has reportedly severed her more than a decade-long relationship with Kanye West, because of his anti-semitic remarks. Wintour first invited Kanye to her annual Met Gala in 2009.

Wintour said she "has no future plans" of engaging in projects with Ye. Reports are that Wintour herself tried to salvage Ye’s relationship with Vogue’s fashion stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson after her restrained but articulate reaction to Kanye West’s Paris presentation and the #WhiteLivesMatter merchandise — specifically a shirt worn by West and his close friend Candace Owens Parker.

Wassup Adidas?

A boycott of Kanye West means a boycott of his Adidas merchandise. And as the temperature — and pressure rises on Adidas — they are playing with fire, in a most difficult business scenario. While Adidas decides what to do about Kanye, AOC shares this Buzzfeed video about the original founding of the company Adidas and their history with the Nazi party.

From everything I know, this video is both accurate and fair. It’s also quick and easy to digest.

Do remember that Adidas is run by different people today and is a public company listed on the "Deutsche Börse" stock exchange in Frankfurt. And the folks at Adidas had lots of company all over Europe with businesses that failed to stand against Hitler.

The Volkswagen Beetle that became the darling of the ‘60s hippie movement was created by Hitler as the ‘People’s Car’. Who knew! Here in America, Henry Ford was a virulent anti-Semite. So Kanye West doesn’t fly solo in his hatred of Jews. He’s in plenty of famous company.