By Olivia Le Poidevin<\/p>\n
Swiss \u200cfootball club FC Basel said on Saturday they have cancelled \u200ca Kanye West concert, becoming the latest European venue to stop or \u200bpostpone the US rapper’s performances amid a furore over his past antisemitic comments.<\/p>\n
FC Basel, who are responsible for concerts and \u200bevents that take place at their St. Jakob-Park ground, told \u2060Reuters that after a thorough review of the request \u200cfor \u200cWest \u200bto perform they decided against his performance going ahead.<\/p>\n
“FCB received an enquiry and \u2060considered it. \u200bHowever, after thorough review, we have \u200bdecided not to proceed with the project, as \u200cwe cannot, in accordance \u200bwith our values, provide a platform for the artist \u2060in question within \u2060this context,” \u200ba club spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Swiss media reported that the concert had been due to take place in June.<\/p>\n
A Polish stadium said on Friday it will cancel a West concert days after he postponed a show in France. \u200cEarlier this month, Britain \u2060blocked the 48-year-old from travelling there to headline a festival.<\/p>\n
The rapper, now known as \u200cYe, in January apologised for his behaviour, which he attributed to \u200buntreated bipolar disorder, and renounced past \u200bexpressions of admiration for Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Olivia Le Poidevin Swiss \u200cfootball club FC Basel said on Saturday they have cancelled \u200ca Kanye West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,15327,29203,29202,3663,2019,17],"class_list":["post-51108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basel","tag-basel","tag-concert","tag-gig","tag-kanye-west","tag-music","tag-soccer","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116425902313670793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}