Borat is back. On Sunday night in Washington, British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen camped out with his famous character onstage at the Kennedy Centers Honors, an awards ceremony, to denounce the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States. And more particularly the recent comments from rapper Kanye West.
The character of Borat, the hero of two feature films released in 2006 and 2020, is a Kazakh reporter on a trip to the United States. His anti-Semitism is the subject of many gags in the two films, and it is in this aspect that Sacha Baron Cohen played on Sunday during his skit, the outlet reported. guardian:
“Your Kanye, he tried to move to Kazakhstan and change his name to Kazakhstanye West. But we said no: he’s too anti-Semitic, even for us.”
This speech follows the many anti-Semitic words of the American rapper. After a series of tweets denounced as “anti-Jewish” in October, the interpreter of tied up 2 reiterated last week on the program of the American conspirator presenter Alex Jones: according to the huffington post, made complimentary comments towards Hitler and versed in Holocaust denial by stating that “Hitler did not kill 6 million Jews.” On December 2, Elon Musk made the decision to suspend the rapper’s Twitter account after he posted an image of a swastika intertwined with a Star of David.
Donald Trump’s ‘pretty orange skin’
Sacha Baron Cohen, still playing Borat, also spoke of Donald Trump’s controversial dinner with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, an American white supremacist, in late November: “I am very disappointed in the anti-Semitism of the US and A” said the comedian. “It’s not fair. Kazakhstan is the #1 anti-Jewish country. Stop stealing our hobby.”
US President Joe Biden and his wife, present in the room, were also quoted in the speech: “I know the US President and A is here. Where are you, Mr. Trump?” Sacha Baron Cohen asked, before mocking . the former US head of state addressing the current one:
“You don’t look well. Where has your glorious belly gone? And your pretty orange skin has turned pale.”
And to conclude interpreting a redesigned version of With or without youtube group U2, acclaimed during the award ceremony: Sacha Baron Cohen sang “With or without Jews” (literally, “with or without the Jews”).
fallen rapper
Kanye West has been making controversial exits for years. But with his latest releases, he seems to have reached a point of no return: Adidas and Balenciaga have broken off their lucrative relationship with the artist, who claimed to have lost $2 billion in one day.
Oren Segal, of the anti-Semitic organization ADL, recently spoke to AFP about the trivialization of anti-Semitic language in the United States:
“This normalization didn’t start when Kanye lost his mind. It’s something we’ve been seeing for a long time.”
He cites Trumpism as an important factor in the trivialization of such hate speech: “Trumpism is understood as the normalization of misinformation and conspiracy theories, and the normalization of anti-Semitism is not far off,” he explains. Joe Biden spoke out last week to call on elected Americans to publicly denounce anti-Semitism.
Source: BFM TV
