A Kanye West concert in Poland has been canceled following government pressure over his long-running history of making anti-Semitic comments.
West, now known as Ye, was scheduled to perform at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów on 19 June, their first performance in Poland in 15 years.
However, the venue said on Friday it would not go ahead with the show “for formal and legal reasons”.
This came as the country’s culture minister, Marta Sienkowska, condemned the rapper, arguing that he should be barred from performing in a country “haunted by the history of the Holocaust” due to his history of offensive comments.
“We can’t pretend this is just entertainment,” Sienkowska said. “We’re talking about an artist who has publicly made anti-Semitic comments, drawn comparisons to crimes, and made profits by selling T-shirts with swastikas on them. These are not ‘controversies’. This is a deliberate crossing of a boundary and the normalization of hate.”
He concluded by saying that culture “cannot become a place for those who use it to spread contempt.”
Stadium director Adam Strzyzewski provided a statement on Facebook, further explaining that the concert was canceled for “formal and legal reasons”.
This came after Ye indefinitely postponed a scheduled show in France, saying it was his “sole decision” to do so earlier this week. He was set to perform at the Marseille Vélodrome on 11 June as part of his 2026 world tour, in support of his new album. bully.
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