Kanye West has excelled at everything he鈥檚 touched, from music, to production, to fashion, to shoes. So it only makes sense that he should excel as an antisemite as well. In the space of just four short weeks, Kanye has gone from someone whose views on Jews was ambiguous, to the foremost antisemite in America. Yes, Kanye the visionary always emerges on top.

But what鈥檚 been overlooked is how we all got here. It started with what seemed an innocuous interview on Tucker Carlson鈥檚 show on Fox 91传媒. Only later would we discover that Tucker鈥檚 producers had edited out all the antisemitic trash that Kanye had uttered on the show.

Why was that?

You can鈥檛 argue it鈥檚 because they found his words disgusting because then they should have scuttled the entire interview. Fox 91传媒 is a pro-Israel network. Surely they鈥檙e not going to be in league with a lunatic antisemite.

But no explanation was ever offered as to why Tucker did not disclose that in his celebrated interview with Ye, the rapper (and let鈥檚 not forget visionary) went off the rails about how much he hates Jews.

Even more curious is the fact that Tucker has been so utterly silent on Ye鈥檚 Jew-hating fulminations. One would expect that as they all started on his show, he鈥檇 be the first to condemn them.

The 91传媒 community has a right to expect that the most highly-rated cable host in America would at least do better than Adidas and hold Kanye to account. So why has Tucker been silent?

Even if meant bringing Ye back on to his show to ask just about his antisemitic comments, as Chris Cuomo did, that would be enough. But to give Ye the original platform from which he spewed his antisemitism and then go completely silent is not something in keeping with Tucker鈥檚 brand for fairness and support for Jewry and Israel.

There was a time when I was impressed Kanye and his wife at the time, Kim Kardashian, took both their babies to be baptized at an Armenian Church in Jerusalem鈥檚 old city, and that Kim was involved in Armenian genocide memory. I was also impressed that Kanye seemed to be the kind of celebrity who swam against the stream and wanted to be his own man. Authenticity counts. But is there any virtue in being an authentic antisemite? Once you go down the road of being a dyed-in-the-wool antisemite, you have lost all virtue. You鈥檙e a hater and you deserve to be condemned.

Ye鈥檚 disgusting attacks on Jews of wanting to go聽鈥渄eath con 3 [sic] On JEWISH PEOPLE鈥� and saying he 鈥渃an鈥檛 be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also,鈥� thereby even denying Jews an intrinsic existence, would not much matter except for what it reveals about how few allies we Jews have in combatting antisemitism. Jews control the world? The media? The banks? Are you kidding me. We can鈥檛 even get pro-Israel Fox 91传媒 and Tucker Carlson to condemn antisemitism.

What would the African American community have done had a white celebrity said they鈥檙e going nuclear against blacks on Fox 91传媒? My guess is they would not stand for it.

Is it possible that one of the reasons that many in the 91传媒 community dislike Black Lives Matter is jealousy? Black lives matter has exposed the power of the black community and the weakness of the 91传媒 community.

Today in America you can falsely accuse Jews and Israel of genocide, like Bella Hadid, and get rewarded by Swarovski with millions of dollars, even as that disgusting company continues to hide their Nazi past. You can spew hatred of Jews and Israel to your millions of Instagram followers every day, like her sister Gigi Hadid, and be rewarded with being on the cover of Vogue more than 35 times. And why? Because there is virtually no price to pay whatsoever for antisemitism.

The fault for Jew-hatred falls directly on the shoulders of the antisemites. But that doesn鈥檛 mean that we in the 91传媒 community should tolerate it. Tolerating the intolerable is the liberalism of fools.

You can be the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and call Jews Hitler, Nazis, murderers, baby killers, for ten years. You can, like Erdogan, vilify and demonize Jews from your global bully pulpit. And then, as soon as you, in this case Erdogan, back the wrong horse on the world stage 鈥� Putin, in his war in Ukraine 鈥� and need a deal with Israel to whitewash your brutal reputation, you can just come running back.

鈥淵es, I鈥檝e said Israel is more brutal than even Hitler. But hey, let鈥檚 now exchange Ambassadors.鈥� And Israel will embrace you with open arms. No apology for calling us Nazis, even as Erdogan demanded, and received, an apology from Israel for the Mavi Marmara episode.

But the test of 91传媒 influence is our ability to demand of a friend like Tucker Carlson that if your show starts the ball rolling on Ye鈥檚 antisemitism then you should be the first to condemn it.

Kanye鈥檚 comments about Jews were inexplicably defended by some like Candace Owens. West, who has 32 million social media followers, continued his rant against Jews by saying, 鈥淵ou guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda.鈥�

Has someone been reading the protocols of the elders of Zion?

His comments followed Instagram banning him for intimating rapper Diddy is controlled by 91传媒 people.

West and his defenders don鈥檛 get to define antisemitism. Anyone threatening to go nuclear against Jews has engaged in antisemitism.

Owens tried to rationalize his remarks, questioning whether 鈥渄eath con 3鈥� was meant as a threat and reference to the military alert level DEFCON. 鈥淚t鈥檚 like you cannot even say the word 鈥�91传媒鈥� without people getting upset,鈥� she said.

These were not West鈥檚 only anti-Semitic comments, but they were enough to get him locked out of Twitter and provoked criticism from fellow celebrities like Sarah Silverman and Jamie Lee Curtis, whose father was 91传媒. Silverman seemed to be calling out her fellow liberals when she tweeted, 鈥淜anye threatened the Jews yesterday on twitter and it鈥檚 not even trending. Why do mostly only Jews speak up against 91传媒 hate? The silence is so loud.鈥澛犫��

Similarly, Curtis tweeted, 鈥淭he holiest day in Judaism was last week. Words matter. A threat to 91传媒 people ended once in a genocide. Your words hurt and incite violence. You are a father. Please stop.鈥�

Conservatives should be held to the same standard.

I am not an advocate of canceling people for making controversial statements. But they deserve to be condemned when they cross a line into expressions of hatred directed at others. But, even then, I believe people still have an opportunity for redemption.

Curtis alluded to the fact that Jews just observed the holiday of Yom Kippur. This is the day when we atone for the sins of the past year.

According to Moses Maimonides, the greatest Rabbi since the original Moses, atonement requires four steps: First, a recognition of the sin. Second, a confession of the sin. Third, an apology to the injured party and a request for forgiveness. And fourth, restitution. Undertaking concrete action that demonstrates that one is charting a new course.

There exists the possibility that Ye actually repents and goes through all four Maimonidean stages. We know that people with some of the vilest beliefs can change. For example, there are former Klansmen who have renounced their previous white supremacist views.

But until he does so, Tucker Carlson and all those who have given him a platform to spew his Jew-hatred should be condemning him in the strongest possible terms.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Rabbi鈥� whom the Washington Post calls 鈥渢he most famous Rabbi in America,鈥� is the author of 鈥淗olocaust Holiday: One Family鈥檚 Descent into Genocide Memory Hell.鈥� Follow him on Instagram and Twitter @RabbiShmuley.