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Wireless Festival might be asking for people to forgive Ye<\/a>, formerly Kanye West<\/strong><\/a>, for his antisemitic statements and behaviors, but David Schwimmer<\/strong> feels like the rapper has not earned forgiveness yet.<\/p>\n The Friends<\/em> alum, 59, shared a photo carousel post to his Instagram on Monday (April 6) thanking the corporate sponsors who have pulled out of the U.K. festival after Ye<\/strong> was announced as a headliner in June. <\/p>\n David<\/strong> specifically thanks Pepsi, PayPal, and Diageo for cutting ties with Wireless, writing, \u201cIt\u2019s great to see companies with moral clarity.\u201d<\/p>\n He said the festival \u201cdisgraced itself\u201d by hiring Ye<\/strong>, who he says has become \u201cone of the most recognizable hate-mongering bigots in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFor years, Ye<\/strong> used his considerable celebrity to promote hate and violence against Jews, spreading antisemitic lies and stereotypes to his 33 million followers \u2014 more than twice the number of Jewish people alive today,\u201d David<\/strong> continued. \u201cLess than a year ago Ye<\/strong> released the song \u2018Heil Hitler\u2019 (rightly banned from all major streaming platforms), sold swastika T-shirts on his website, claimed he was a Nazi and threatened to kill Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n The Band of Brothers<\/em> star mentioned that while Ye<\/strong> did apologize via a paid ad in The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, he recalls that the musical artist has apologized before, only to later \u201cretract that apology and double down on his virulent hatred of Jewish people.\u201d <\/p>\n David<\/strong> suggests the ad might have been part of a \u201cPR scheme to assuage folks right before his long-planned return to stage.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cSo he\u2019s launching a comeback, having recently played at SoFi Stadium in California (Kroenke<\/strong> family were you aware?) supported by Lauryn Hill<\/strong>, Travis Scott<\/strong>, CeeLo Green<\/strong> and Don Toliver<\/strong> \u2014 artists who seem to shrug off his history of rabid antisemitism. Or maybe endorse it? Hard to say, since none of them ever publicly denounced his past remarks.\u201d<\/p>\n David<\/strong> notes that thus far, Ye<\/strong>\u2018s apology has just been words but not action.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thing is, Ye<\/strong>\u2018s words and actions the last few years have caused incalculable, irreparable damage,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHe has fueled world wide hatred and inspired violence against Jews everywhere, and his erratic behavior has repeatedly shown he can\u2019t be trusted. It\u2019s fine for his famous pals to pat him on the back and say, \u2018It\u2019s all good.\u2019 But the community he has harmed most has no reason to trust his apology is authentic.\u201d<\/p>\n The Emmy nominee went on to list ways in which Ye<\/strong> could make actual effort toward making amends, such as by explicitly disavowing his song \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d and pulling it, or by meeting with Jewish leaders, or even donating a portion of his Wireless profits to a charitable organization in the UK, where, he notes, \u201cattacks against Jews, synagogues and Jewish businesses are among the highest ever recorded.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAn apology letter is just that: Words on paper. An advertisement, generating publicity before a concert tour. It does not erase years of abuse,\u201d David<\/strong> noted. \u201cI believe in forgiveness, but it takes much more than this. Then again, I do not profit from his appearing at Wireless.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cUntil Ye<\/strong> demonstrates a commitment to building back trust \u2014 not only with the Jewish community, but with ALL the fans he left heartbroken and disappointed by his hateful rhetoric the last several years \u2014 he should not be granted a platform to perform,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n The actor concluded, \u201cTo do so is to be tacitly complicit in what these companies know to be wrong, unethical and immoral.\u201d<\/p>\n Aubrey O\u2019Day<\/strong> recently responded to backlash<\/a> after she attended two Ye<\/strong> concerts back to back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n