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Ye has been kicked from the platform once again.

Following his recent acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk began reinstating multiple controversial users whom he believed were removed from the platform unjustly. One of those users was Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who was suspended from Twitter in October following multiple antisemitic comments. It seems Musk may have been a bit hasty, though, because this week, he announced that Ye would be removed from the platform once again.

This past week, Ye has been escalating his antisemitic rhetoric, going as far as to appear on hard-right Podcast InfoWars alongside Alex Jones and speaking his praise for Adolf Hitler and Nazism. The final straw came on Thursday night when Ye posted an image of a swastika on his Twitter, prompting the site to remove him for violating its policies on incitement to violence.

“I tried my best. Despite that, he again violated our rule against incitement to violence. Account will be suspended,” Musk tweeted.

Ye’s antisemitism has proven caustic to his career, with multiple business partners pulling out of potential deals. The latest of these is right-leaning social media platform Parler, which announced today that they are cancelling the deal to sell their operations to Ye.

“In response to numerous media inquiries, Parlement Technologies would like to confirm that the company has mutually agreed with Ye to terminate the intent of sale of Parler,” Parler Tweeted.

Kanye West was suspended from Twitter after he tweeted an image of a swastika inside the Star of David. Elon Musk said the post violated the platform's rule against inciting violence. The tweet was deleted shortly before West's account was shut down. https://t.co/Fq5ADz5YAE

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 2, 2022

Ye has also drawn the ire of multiple anti-hate groups, particularly the Holocaust Educational Trust in the UK, who described his praises of Hitler as “repulsive and sickening”.

“These comments mixed with his high profile and huge following have dangerous consequences,” chief executive Karen Pollock said.