Controversial rapper and musician Azealia Banks announced that she identifies as a Zionist in a series of posts on X/Twitter.
Responding to a user’s question about whether she supported Israel or Palestine, she wrote, “I’m a Zionist.”
In separate posts, she elaborated on her opinions regarding Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the current war in Gaza.
“If any of the Arab countries were going to support Palestine, they would have done it by now. I don’t see why this is America’s problem and, more specifically, any of my black American businesses,” she wrote.
“No black person should be supporting Palestine. Whenever I see stupid ass musicians supporting Palestine blindly without raising the question about black people’s safety and the ongoing *industry* of CHATTEL SLAVERY enslavement of black peoples in the Islamic world, it makes my blood BOIL,” Banks continued.
Azealia Banks weighs in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Banks explained that much of her support for Israel has to do with the way she perceives the Arab world treating Black people.
“The Israel-Palestine dilemma is just a way for non-Jewish whites to throw a chip at Jews. Because if you really gave a f*** and REALLY examined the situation, you would see that there are black people who have been silenced and had their limbs chopped off and thrown in cages for Arabs to have actually colonized the Middle East.”
The 34-year-old musician is known for her social media rants and controversial opinions. She added that she believes that Israel should allow the law of return for Palestinians, but only those of African descent.
“Israel should give all Afro-Palestinians asylum. But ONLY the black Palestinians. There are, make [sic], around 700 of them left because the Palestinians have genocided them,” Banks asserted without providing proof.
“Free Afro-Palestine and Black-Australia. Everyone else can wait.”
In multiple posts from Tuesday evening, she alluded to Arabs and Jews having issues due to what she perceived to be high rates of inbreeding.
“Middle Eastern countries also have some of the highest rates of inbreeding, so they need to check that too,” read one post.
In one post, she notes that she didn’t care for the tactics used in Gaza but noted that she “wasn’t there on October 7 to know what really happened” and that, in her opinion, “the Arab world has ZERO love for black people to the point of still holding us in chains.”
In the series of posts, Banks also referenced a time when she declared herself Jewish. In 2021, she posted a picture of her hand with a ring featuring a menorah with the caption, “I’m Jewish now. MAZEL TOV BITCHES!””
She was reportedly engaged to a Jewish artist, but the two have since split.