JTA — Ye on Monday again issued a formal apology for his years of antisemitic tirades, taking out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal in which he attributed his actions to his prior health conditions.

“I lost touch with reality,” the rapper and fashion mogul formerly known as Kanye West writes in the ad. Later, he added, “I am not a Nazi or an antisemite. I love Jewish people.”

Ye has repeatedly alienated the global Jewish community and broad swaths of his fanbase since fall 2022, when he first threatened to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”

Last year, he bought a Super Bowl ad to promote T-shirts with swastikas on them, then released a song titled “Heil Hitler,” which a group of far-right antisemitic influencers, including Nick Fuentes, played earlier this month at a Miami nightclub in a viral incident.

The Journal ad marks the latest in a series of apologies for Ye, which also included a May 2025 declaration that he was “done with antisemitism” and apologizing in person to an Orthodox rabbi in November.

In the ad, Ye wrote that he experienced head trauma from a car accident 25 years ago that went undiagnosed until 2023, which “caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-1 diagnosis.”

He has been open about his bipolar disorder for years.

“In that fractured state, I........

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