Wednesday, June 24, 2026 - A Texas mayor is calling for the cancellation of Kanye West’s show in her city due to antisemitic comments he has made in the past.
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has called for a July 4
concert featuring the rapper to be cancelled in a social media post.
“I support canceling the @kanyewest concert,” Jones, 45,
wrote Saturday on X. “Military City USA should not host someone with a record
of hate speech and antisemitic comments in a city-funded facility like our
Alamodome—not ever, and certainly not on July 4th, our Nation’s 250th
birthday.”
She added, “Standing up to antisemitism is exactly what it
takes to achieve a more perfect Union.”
The controversial artist’s scheduled performance at the
Alamodome is just the latest instance of his recent tour sparking backlash due
to West’s history of antisemitism, which has included releasing a song
called “Heil Hitler” and advertising a swastika T-shirt for sale on his
website.
During the European leg of the tour, the U.K. government
banned West from entering the country because of his comments, which led to the
three-day Wireless Festival in London being cancelled. The rapper’s visa was
revoked in April because the government said his presence would “not be
conducive to the public good.
Swiss football club FC Basel cancelled West’s show scheduled
in June, saying: “However, after thorough review, we have decided not to
proceed with the project, as we cannot, in accordance with our values, provide
a platform for the artist in question within this context.”
West was also set to perform in Chorzów, which would have
marked his first performance in Poland in 15 years, but the venue announced in
April that it would not go ahead “due to formal and legal reasons.”
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