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VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY 9 April 2026 • 22 Nissan 5786 • Issue No.1466 •
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Wireless Sour note: Wireless Festival boss Melvin Benn
Ye-diot: Kayne on stage and in a swastika t-shirt
Thanks to the witless Wireless Festival, scholars finally have the answer to that long-debated question: ‘Is it wise to invite a selfproclaimed Nazi to perform on stage in front of 50,000 people?’ VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS Nobody forced one of the UK’s largest festivals to decide to pick Kanye West as their headline act. No one made them fail to release any comment about it for a week, as anger grew and as sponsors started bailing out. And the director of the company which operates the festival, Melvin Benn, didn’t have to then release a tone-deaf, condescending statement in which he attempted to prove his
credentials by describing his work on a Kibbutz half a century ago and asking people to “reflect” on “forgiveness and giving people a second chance”. Still, thanks to the Wireless Festival, scholars finally have the answer to that longdebated question: “Is it wise to invite someone who has repeatedly described himself as a Nazi to perform on stage in front of tens of thousands in a north London park?”
The government’s decision to ban the racist rapper from entering the country is the right move. But it has also effectively enabled the UK’s music industry to dodge the larger question – how, particularly in the current climate of hate in this country, was a decision to book someone with a long history of antisemitic statements deemed acceptable? It has been less than a year since Kanye
West declared himself to be a Nazi – again, after engaging in similar behaviour in 2022. In 2025 his activities included selling merchandise on his website featuring swastikas, publishing a video of himself wearing a diamond encrusted swastika chain while standing with America’s most infamous far-right social media influencer, Nick Fuentes, and releasing songs called Continued on page 16
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