British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed concern about planned concerts in London by US rapper Kanye West, who has a history of antisemitic outbursts.<\/p>\n
Campaigners against antisemitism added their voices to the protests on Sunday and Pepsi, sponsors of the festival concerned, pulled out of the event.<\/p>\n
The disgraced 48-year-old hip-hop star \u2013 now known as Ye \u2013 is set to play three nights at the Wireless festival in London in July as part of a European comeback tour.<\/p>\n
Starmer<\/a> told The Sun newspaper on Saturday it was \u201cdeeply concerning Kanye West<\/a> has been booked to perform at Wireless despite his previous antisemitic remarks and celebration of Nazism\u201d.<\/p>\n He added that \u201cantisemitism in any form is abhorrent and must be confronted firmly\u201d.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for event sponsor Pepsi told Agence France-Presse on Sunday that the brand \u201chas decided to withdraw its sponsorship of Wireless Festival\u201d, without giving a reason.<\/p>\n The festival\u2019s operating company, Live Nation, has not so far responded to a request for comment from Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed concern about planned concerts in London by US rapper Kanye West,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[29621,247970,26388,748,247969,393,4884,247911,1805,807,48730,257,247968,10040,66009,247938,14268,16,15,101662],"class_list":["post-874102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-antisemitic-outbursts","tag-antisemitism","tag-britain","tag-campaign-against-antisemitism","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-heil-hitler","tag-kanye-west","tag-keir-starmer","tag-live-nation","tag-london","tag-london-mayor-sadiq-khan","tag-marseille","tag-nazism","tag-pepsi","tag-the-sun","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wireless-festival"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116353236117415690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}