Kanye West defends Hitler in an interview with Proud Boys Founder

Kanye West has made further anti-Semitic remarks, this time claiming that Jews should "forgive Hitler" in an interview with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes.

Ye, an artist formerly known as McInnes, and the latter's recent hate speech directed towards the Jewish community were discussed in a 45-minute interview titled Saving Ye that was published to the alt-right website Censored.TV. 

But the founder of Yeezy simply strengthened his position.

"Jewish people can’t tell me who I can love and who I can’t love," he said during the conversation, hosted by far-right personality and West’s recent companion Nick Fuentes, who is a Holocaust denier and has been labeled as a white supremacist by the Anti-Defamation League.

"You can’t force your pain on everyone else," he continued, according to Rolling Stone.

"Jewish people — forgive Hitler today," he added. "Let it go. Let it go. Stop trying to force it on other people."

The right-wing extremist group Proud Boys was founded by McInnes in 2016 after he left VICE Media Company, which he co-founded. McInnes claims that he set up the interview to "prevent Ye West from becoming an antisemite or a Nazi," and that he hopes to do so in the beginning of the video.

The interview was conducted only a few days after the Donda musician made the shocking remarks on Alex Jones' extreme right-wing programme InfoWars. 

The incident was so upsetting that even President Joe Biden issued a statement denouncing antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

"I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides," the president tweeted on December 02.

"Silence is complicity."