Bill Maher Axes Two-Hour Episode With Kanye West, Calls Him a ‘Very Charming Anti-Semite’ After Interview

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Prominent liberal American comedian, political commentator and TV host Bill Maher said he nixed a two-hour episode with Kanye “Ye” West, whom he called “a very charming anti-Semite,” over fears that West’s inflammatory rhetoric would further hatred and vitriol against Jewish people.

Maher announced, during an interview with Harvey Levin on “TMZ Investigates,” which aired earlier this month, that he would not be airing the two-hour episode with West, which was taped for his podcast “Club Random with Bill Maher.”

Maher said the problem is that West “appeals mostly, of course, he’s a rock star, to young people. They don’t know much and they certainly don’t know much about the Middle East or Jews,” he added, suggesting these youths are easy to influence.

Maher added that he believes West “was helpful for spreading the fertilizer, and I do mean fertilizer, for this idea that Israel and the Jews are like the worst people in the world.”

Despite this, Maher said he thought his never-to-be-broadcast two-hour podcast episode with West “was going to be a learning moment,” and that “we had an amazing, fun time.” He added that West is “a very charming anti-Semite.

“And by the way, he’s not the only one in America who feels that way,” Maher added. “It’s not like the Jews are universally loved, except for Kanye West, OK?”

Levin responded to this by likening West to Adolf Hitler, adding that a lot of people may have been “thinking what [Kanye West] was thinking” about Jewish people, “but in Kanye’s case, the fact that he’s saying it out loud gives other people permission to say it too.”

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