SAN FRANCISCO (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — Drake has held the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for most of this year. The Canadian rapper and singer during ...

The video, parts of which were filmed in the Miami shul’s sanctuary, purports to depict Drake’s “re-bar mitzvah,” showing the Jewish rapper reading from what appears to be a Torah.

The suit, filed Wednesday, goes on to say that posters responding to the song on YouTube and X “turned to racial and religious slurs against Drake, who is mixed race and Jewish.” One comment ...

Which Drake claims targets his Jewish heritage. According to the lawsuit, the lyrics describe him not as a “colleague,” but as a “colonizer.” A term that he claims carries antisemitic ...

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Second, the complaint’s allegations of antisemitism aimed at Drake, who is half Jewish, would have inflamed students and others last summer at the height of the “Free Palestine” campus protests.