GENEVA: Swiss football club FC Basel said on Saturday they have cancelled \u200ba Kanye West concert, becoming the latest \u200cEuropean venue to stop or postpone the U.S. rapper\u2019s performances amid a furore over his past antisemitic comments.<\/p>\n
FC \u200bBasel, who are responsible for concerts and \u200bevents that take place at their St. Jakob-Park \u2060ground, told Reuters that after a thorough \u200breview of the request for West to perform \u200bthey decided against his performance going ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cFCB received an enquiry and considered it. However, after thorough review, we have decided \u200bnot to proceed with the project, as \u200bwe cannot, in accordance with our values, provide a platform \u200cfor \u2060the artist in question within this context,\u201d a club spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Swiss media reported that the concert had been due to take place in June.<\/p>\n
A \u200bPolish stadium \u200bsaid on \u2060Friday it will cancel a West concert days after he postponed a show \u200bin France. Earlier this month, Britain blocked the \u200b48-year-old \u2060from travelling there to headline a festival.<\/p>\n
The rapper, now known as Ye, in January apologised for his \u2060behaviour, \u200bwhich he attributed to untreated \u200bbipolar disorder, and renounced past expressions of admiration for Adolf \u200bHitler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENEVA: Swiss football club FC Basel said on Saturday they have cancelled \u200ba Kanye West concert, becoming the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77,1293,29775],"class_list":{"0":"post-52682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basel","8":"tag-basel","9":"tag-fc-basel","10":"tag-st-jakob-park-ground"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116441800117412665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52682","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=52682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}