Adidas Chief Executive Bjorn Gulden has apologized for recent remarks that appeared to downplay the intent behind rapper Kanye West’s antisemitic rants last year, the head of the Anti-Defamation League said Thursday in a post on X.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s chief executive, said in that post that Gulden on Thursday morning “apologized for his misstatement & reiterated that Adidas is committed to fighting #antisemitism & is completely opposed to the ugly hate expressed by” West, who goes by Ye.
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