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Thu Oct 13, 2022, 12:31 AM Oct 2022

(Jewish Group) What Jamie Lee Curtis, other celebrities said about Ye's tweets about Jewish people

On Sunday, he was locked out of Twitter for violating their policies, according to USA Today.

The tweets in question were viewed as antisemitic and denigrating of Jewish people, as reported by the Deseret News.

Jamie Lee Curtis talked about how she burst into tears talking about the tweets on the Today Show on Monday.




“It’s bad enough that fascism is on the rise around the world. But on Twitter, on a portal, to pour that in? As if Jewish people haven’t had it hard enough?” she said on Today.

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Thank you, Jamie Lee!

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(Jewish Group) What Jamie Lee Curtis, other celebrities said about Ye's tweets about Jewish people (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Oct 2022 OP
Her dad, Tony Curtis, was Jewish. hedda_foil Oct 2022 #1

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