Rapper Nicki Minaj’s new video “Only” has provoked controversy over its use of Nazi imagery. The video, which features Chris Brown, Drake and Lil Wayne, displays Minaj as a dictator in cartoon with soldiers bowing down to her.

Senior Temirah Davis said she doesn’t believe that the video belittled the Holocaust.

“It was like she was sitting on her throne,” Davis said. “If there were any other colors, there wouldn’t be a [controversy if] they used pink or green.”

The video inspires memories of red, white, and black Nazi iconography and Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitism, or hatred toward Jewish people. Red Y-M signs in the video, referring to Minaj’s Young Money music group, look similar to Nazi swastikas.

Anti-Defamation League national director and Holocaust survivor Abraham H. Foxman said the video is disturbing and offensive. The Anti-Defamation League works to combat anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry and hate.

“Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism,” Foxman told ABC News.

Minaj apologized on Twitter, though she said the concept wasn’t her idea.

“I’m very sorry & take full responsibility if it has offended anyone,” Minaj said. “I’d never condone Nazism in my art.”

Junior Brittney Rivera said she enjoys the style and lyrics of Minaj’s music and accepts her apology.

“I think the video mimics the Holocaust, but I don’t think it was intentional,” Rivera said. “I think the video was saying the music group Young Money rules the music industry, but the producer should take responsibility.”

Director Jeffrey Osborne took responsibility for the controversy and said that he is not anti-Semitic, but wouldn’t apologize.

“I’m not apologizing for my work,” Osborne said. “Nor will I dodge the immediate question. The flags, armbands, and gas mask are all representative of Nazism. What’s also American is the First Amendment, which I’ve unexpectedly succeeded in showing how we willfully squeeze ourselves out of that right every day.”

Social studies teacher Joe Timpanaro said he agrees with the concept of the music video but feels that the producer used the wrong artist to convey his message.

“The video doesn’t coincide with the lyrics,” Timpanaro said. He said he listens to Minaj not for enjoyment, but to stay up-to-date with his students and pop culture.

Timpanaro said he didn’t see anything that trivializes the Holocaust in the video and he understands “the director’s message of supporting the First Amendment. His message was good, but didn’t make sense for the project.”