{"id":119229,"date":"2025-02-15T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119229"},"modified":"2025-02-15T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:34:15","slug":"15-00-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=119229","title":{"rendered":"American Singer Matthew Koma Raises Roughly $18K for Holocaust Survivors With Anti-Kanye West Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>American Singer Matthew Koma Raises Roughly $18K for Holocaust Survivors With Anti-Kanye West Shirt<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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One style of the \u201cF\u2014k Ye\u201d shirt that Matthew Koma is selling. Photo: Screenshot<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

American musician Matthew Koma has helped raise roughly $18,000 to aid Holocaust survivors with the sale of shirts that directly respond to the decision of Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, to sell shirts featuring a Nazi swastika.<\/span><\/p>\n

Koma, who is Jewish and the husband of American singer and actress Hilary Duff, began selling the \u201cF\u2014k Ye\u201d white t-shirts on Tuesday, and all proceeds are being donated to\u00a0Blue Card,<\/a>\u00a0a nonprofit organization that provides direct financial assistance to needy Holocaust survivors living in America. The shirts feature the anti-Ye message on the front and sell for $20. They are sold two ways \u2014 with the\u00a0profanity spelled out in full<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0with asterisks.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Masha Pearl, executive director of Blue Card, told\u00a0TMZ\u00a0<\/a>that although final sale numbers have not been tallied yet, the charity\u2019s website has already received around $18,000 in donations because of Koma\u2019s help drawing awareness to the organization. Koma is also matching the donations being given to Blue Card, Pearl told TMZ. He added that because of all the publicity, more Holocaust survivors have also reached out to the charity for help, including with trauma assistance and emotional support.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so grateful to Matthew Koma and Hilary Duff for quickly springing into action and realizing that this is not OK and that they have to do something, and utilizing fashion to get the word out there,\u201d she said. \u201cThey learned about Blue Card on their own, reached out and had quickly created the t-shirts and had spread this on social media \u2014 both Matthew and Hillary \u2026 It\u2019s a way for people to feel that they\u2019re doing something positive and not just innocently standing by.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There are about 40,000 Holocaust survivors living in the US, Pearl said. Among the survivors that Blue Card assists, three-quarters are over the age of 78, according to its website. Nearly 70 percent of the Holocaust survivors that the charity aids live alone, and many of them struggle to afford necessities such food and health care. More than half of them also live 200 percent below the federal poverty line, with an income of less than $24,980 annually.<\/span><\/p>\n

Koma began selling the \u201cF\u2013K Ye\u201d shirts after the rapper went on a\u00a0rabid antisemitic rant<\/a>\u00a0on X \u2013 during which he called himself a Nazi and racist \u2013 and then proceeded to sell on\u00a0Yeezy.com<\/a>\u00a0a white t-shirt emblazoned with a black swastika, a symbol of Adolf Hitler\u2019s Nazi party that is also used by far-right extremists. The \u201cFlashing Lights\u201d singer also aired a\u00a0commercial during Super Bowl LIX<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday night that drew attention to\u00a0Yeezy.com<\/a>\u00a0and the shirt, which was being sold online until Tuesday morning, when Ye\u2019s website was\u00a0shut down.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Commenting on Ye\u2019s recent antisemitic behavior, Pearl said: \u201cI don\u2019t want to attack him personally. When I denounced his actions, I don\u2019t denounce him as a person. I can\u2019t speak to his mental health. But I do see is someone who is exhibiting very hateful and very dangerous behavior that has serious ramifications.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t even want to say this rap artist\u2019s name because I think so much of what he does is for shock value and attention,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd this is such a dangerous rhetoric that is being spread, which has enormous ramifications. This is promoting Nazism and atrocities of millions of people being murdered, including children, and this is something that is completely unacceptable and should be denounced in every which shape and form.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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