Actor Nick Cannon currently is under fire for espousing comments that have been criticized as antisemitic, including that Zionists and Rothschilds have “too much power.”

Jewish Insider reported that Cannon said in a 2019 episode of “Cannon’s Class” − Cannon’s YouTube talk show − that recently went viral on Twitter that people are “giving too much power to the ‘they’ — and then the ‘they’ turns into the Illuminati, the Zionists, the Rothschilds.”

He also said of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “Every time I’ve heard him speak, it’s positive, it’s powerful, it’s uplifting … for whatever reason, he’s been demonized.”

Additionally, Cannon claimed “the semitic people are the Black people” and that “you can’t be antisemitic when we are the semitic people. When we are the same people who they want to be. That’s our birthright.”

Jewish groups condemned Cannon’s remarks as antisemitic.

Associate director and dean of Global Social Action Agenda at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper told Jewish Insider, “Anyone seeking a Ph.D in Jew-hatred should watch this ‘interview’ in its entirety. Farrakhan’s hateful screeds on full display in the next generation inculcating [the] 21st Century through cultural figures and social media. Pure poison.”

Former New York Democratic Assemblyman Dov Hikind tweeted that his watchdog group, Americans Against Anti-Semitism, is calling on Fox “to take immediate action against Nick Cannon for his nasty antisemitic diatribe.” Cannon hosts “The Masked Singer” on Fox. “You cannot remove Farrakhan one week and allow his followers to spew the very same filth in the next without consequence!” Hikind added, referencing Fox Soul canceling its scheduled broadcast of Farrakhan’s July 4 address.