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Keir Starmer Criticizes Wireless Festival Over Kanye West Booking
Starmer said the booking is deeply concerning amid backlash over West’s antisemitic remarks and Nazi imagery, including a recent apology and a $150 million Adidas cut.
- On Sunday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer criticized Wireless Festival for booking Kanye West to headline in July, calling the decision "deeply concerning" due to the rapper's history of antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism.
- The 48-year-old rapper has not performed in the UK for 11 years, yet has drawn widespread criticism in recent years for posting antisemitic content, directing fans to a swastika t-shirt website, and releasing a song referencing Hitler.
- Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, called the booking "absolutely the wrong decision," while Holocaust Educational Trust boss Karen Pollock said Wireless should reconsider providing "a platform for this hateful anti-Semitism."
- Starmer's intervention comes amid heightened concerns regarding antisemitism in Britain; in March, four ambulances from a Jewish community-run service were torched in northwest London.
- Adidas previously severed ties with West, donating more than $150m to anti-hate groups, while West attributed his past outbursts to a four-month manic episode stemming from his bipolar-1 disorder.
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Scandal rapper Kanye West is scheduled to be on stage at a major festival in London. Planning provides sharp criticism. The Prime Minister also comments. A planned appearance of the US scandal rapper Kanye West at a festival in London causes indignation and criticism in the UK. Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the planning for the Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park as "deeply worrying," as the newspaper "The Sun" first reported. Starmer rec…
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