Streeting said West has \u201cno business\u201d headlining the festival, and that the organizers \u201cshould be ashamed of themselves\u201d for a terrible error of judgment.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese weren\u2019t a couple of off-color remarks,\u201d Streeting told Sky News. \u201cThese were, I think, a pattern of behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cAntisemitism is serious, it can be deadly and people like Kanye West, who have an enormous platform, fame, reach, they have to accept the responsibility that comes with that. And I don\u2019t think he has. I\u2019m only too disappointed the festival organizers are too blind to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Festival Managing Director Melvin Benn called West\u2019s comments \u201cabhorrent,\u201d but said his songs were played on radio stations and he, for now, has a legal right to enter the U.K. and perform.<\/p>\n
Benn said people should \u201coffer some forgiveness and hope to him as I have decided to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a recent statement, West said he wanted the opportunity to meet with and listen to members of the Jewish community in the U.K. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Streeting said West has \u201cno business\u201d headlining the festival, and that the organizers \u201cshould be ashamed of themselves\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1173,2909,9710,8,1473,9394,221,9,2290,9711,5049,9712,7,347,9672,9713],"class_list":{"0":"post-14775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-british-politics","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-history","13":"tag-kanye-west","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-platforms","17":"tag-playbook","18":"tag-rights","19":"tag-shabana-mahmood","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wes-streeting","23":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116364033572469719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}